Late in my teenage years, I’d formulated a plan with my father: We’d get the biggest truck and trailer we could without going to truck driver’s school, and then we’d ramble around out West and down South, picking up old cars and trucks that hadn’t rotted to the rooftops. Had we done that, and had […]

It’s not the most obvious place to hold a premium car show,  but’s it’s still fantastic. New Bern, North Carolina, was the location of last weekend’s sensational AACA Grand National, which I’m telling you is the flat-out best gathering of historic vehicles you’ll ever see, anywhere. More than 500 ultimate restored and unrestored examples were on […]

It appears I missed a double-ended tank transporter when I was going over the LeTourneau- and Mack-built tank transporters last week, though this one’s somewhat different. Designated the XM376 (for the front unit) and XM377 (for the rear unit), each was an 8×8 rather than a 4×4, and both were designed to work together in […]