Match the Latches, a stupidly hard quiz

I’m not going to say this one will be easy or, frankly, possible. For anyone, ever. But when you come across a round-up of the hood clasps of 1918, you’ve got to go for it. I will personally send you a shiny new dime if you nail all 12 – no cheating! I’ll even throw […]

Lost & Found: Ty Cobb’s Chalmers

The current Sports Illustrated has a great story about Ty Cobb, Nap Lajoie and the race for the 1910 batting title, and how Hugh Chalmers of car fame hotted up the season with the promise of a Chalmers 30 to the batting champion. Read it. Done? So the long and short is that both ended […]

Get out and Drive

The long cold winter is officially over, Detroit is in bloom and that jalopy isn’t going to drive itself, you know. So break out the stadium coat, limber up your cranking arm and get that thing on the road. Spring days are, apparently, motoring days.