The Squire Motor Car Co. began operations in 1935 and went out of business 18 months later, having built just 10 cars. Yet the cars generated enthusiasm far beyond their production numbers, becoming legendary for their delicate beauty, first-rate build quality and purposeful character. The unrestored Squire that Fiskens, the British historic vehicles dealer, plans […]
Editor’s note: In recent conversations with crime writer Rose Keefe, we learned that in 2008 she’d researched the murder of Billy Bate, the first man believed to have been murdered in an automobile. She has generously allowed us to share that story, taken from her pamphlet “The Bate Auto Murder.” In 1904, Americans regarded the […]
This trailer for the 1958 movie “Dragstrip Riot” (curiously missing any shots of a dragstrip) may not have Tom, Crow, and Joel/Mike riffing on it, but that’s not to say it doesn’t deserve the MST3K treatment.