Hemmings Find of the Day – 1999 Isdera Commendatore

Researching the Isdera Commendatore 112i is a daunting task. Isdera is a company that seems to thrive on mystery and make it as difficult as possible to extract any information out of them. It doesn’t help that this Commendatore for sale on Hemmings.com appears to be a one-off version of the Commendatore built in 1999 […]

Henry Ford and the electric car

photo from the collections of The Henry Ford
That Henry Ford and Thomas Edison became good friends later in their lives is well known. They camped together, they presented each other with lavish gifts, they owned houses immediately adjacent to each other. Many Ford enthusiasts also know that, at the time Ford first drove his Quadricycle […]

Who killed the (steam/turbine-powered) car?

Another Monday, another batch of very cool old press photos from David Greenlees. Where last week’s photos followed a streamlining theme, this week’s photos depict very early alternative-fuel concept vehicles from GM. First, above, a photo from May 7, 1969, depicting a bunch of techs installing a four-cylinder engine into a 1969 Pontiac Grand Prix. […]