One of the great mysteries of modern celebrity is why someone who has enough scratch for a gold-plated Cadillac Escalade can’t scare up a few more bucks to hire a driver when it comes time to descend into Hollywood and drink enough to raise the eyebrows of W.C. Fields and Winston Churchill. Up-and-coming celebrities who […]

I’ve had this picture hanging around in my Inbox for a while, courtesy Geoff Hacker, and I thought today, the anniversary of Henry Ford’s patent (2,269,451) for a method of producing a plastic-bodied car, would be as good a time as any to post it. We won’t get into the details of the car itself, […]

If nobody else, Clessie Cummins had proved to Americans the viability of the diesel engine. Familiar with the Indianapolis 500 since crewing for Ray Harroun in the first such race in 1911, he returned in 1931 with a Duesenberg-built, diesel-powered race car that finished 13th, but managed to not only run the entire race without […]