Is it possible to think of South Africa anytime before the Mandela era and dissociate it from the images of apartheid that remain with us? Perhaps if all you saw of the country were its automotive advertisements. Then again, I suppose the same postulation rings true of any country (America included) at any period of […]

This is Riverside Park in Ypsilanti, Michigan, where the Orphan Car Show annually takes place. See that gazebo? It’s ordinarily on dry land. The problem was that the night before last Sunday’s scheduled show, lower Michigan was slashed by both thunderstorms and tornadoes, including one that passed through southern Washtenaw County before causing awful damage […]

At the mere mention of Pegaso in yesterday’s blog post, I’m sure many of you turned to your favorite reference books to fill in some of the blanks that Maxwell Innes left in his too-short article on the marque’s sports cars. For example, what’s up with the transmission behind the rear axle? And why in […]