Investment or driver? The constantly debated question becomes kind of a moot point with race cars – after all, they were built to be driven, and to be driven hard. They went through constant changes – updates and repairs alike – so that there often is no one absolutely correct configuration. And who cares about […]

In the year-plus since we discovered the photos of the first-ever Symposium on Low Pollution Power Systems Development, we’ve teased out more information on a couple of the attending vehicles: the McKee-built Sundancer and the GM 512-series micros. Next up, the Lear-built steam bus. While we only see evidence of one Lear steam bus, a […]

You know, for an educational film that probably would have been shown in driver’s ed classes in the 1950s, “The Cool Hot Rod” certainly does seem to have been produced with plenty of input from actual hot rodders. Of course, it’s a Sid Davis film, so the moralizing is expected, but there’s plenty of eye […]