Great Race countdown: Race is now less than a week away.

I will be on the road covering the 2011 Hemmings Motor News Great Race from Chattanooga, Tennessee, to Bennington, Vermont, from June 11-17, with daily updates posted here on the Hemmings Blog. I will also be acting as half of our support crew for Publisher/driver Jim Menneto and his navigator Mari Parizo as they compete […]

More invisible vehicles appear

After yesterday’s post on the see-through Pontiac going up for auction, we received the above photo from our friend Bob Cunningham showing a 1950 Chevrolet delivery truck bodied (mostly) in Plexiglas to show off its cargo capacity for the attendees of the 1950 Chicago auto show. Surprisingly, Bob doesn’t have the truck’s entire life story, […]

The first American automobile race?

While we’re on the topic of steam-powered vehicles today, let’s take a look at a recent post over at The Old Motor, in which David Greenlees dug up some information on a 200-mile race through Wisconsin – from Green Bay to Madison – between a pair of steam buggies that took place in 1878. As […]