Had these two photos been uploaded to the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool by somebody other than Hugo90, we might have taken them for a Stan Mott Cyclops-style joke, but as it turns out, these were two actual concepts by the Marquis Piergirolamo Bargagli, produced under the name Urbanina, sometime between the mid 1960s and early […]
Longtime GM executive Bob Stempel, who rose to the rank of GM CEO in the Nineties, died Monday at his home in Florida at the age of 77. Most of the obituaries note that Stempel was ousted as GM’s chairman following a stormy two-year tenure that ended in 1992. The boardroom coup that ended in […]
The theoretical advantage to gas turbines, besides their ability to swallow up a wide range of fuels, is their relative lightness and compactness compared to other internal combustion engines (gasoline, diesel) of the same output. Boeing decided to illustrate that advantage with this press photo we recently scrounged up, dated April 10, 1950, showing one […]