Pet Huskies

There was an Antique Truck Club of America gathering recently that was really cool, even though it was blazing hot. The club’s Western Massachusetts Chapter organized an early-season show in South Deerfield, Massachusetts, which drew a slew of vintage rigs.

This is East Coast. That’s why one brand of truck, Brockway, probably outnumbered every other nameplate […]

Hemmings Speedster receives buttons

With our new-found horsepower and engine torque we anticipate on our engine rebuild, we looked into changing the clutch to a ceramic button-type disc. The reliability of ceramic facing over the standard friction material is obvious. Ceramic is a much tougher substance and will far outlast  a conventional clutch facing.
With the harder compound however comes […]

Streamlining, it’s all the rage

For all the streamliners and teardroppers sketched out, put into clay and prototyped, very few successfully became the car of the future that they claimed to be. But they sure made for excellent copy for the newspapers and mechanics magazines of the day, and David Greenlees recently came across a small treasure trove of streamliners […]