A real Orphan Baby: the Griffin three-wheelers

In the January 2011 issue of Hemmings Classic Car, which should be hitting mailboxes and newsstands shortly, I reviewed Robert Cunningham’s “Orphan Babies: America’s Forgotten Economy Cars, Volume 2,” an excellent and comprehensive followup to his first volume of research into the sorts of cars that usually got relegated to the one-liner notes and oddity […]

Whitey Thuesen and the Crosley V-8

Photo courtesy Ron Cummings Ever since the mention of a mysterious Crosley V-8 engine a few years ago sent me off in search of the elusive wee beast, I’ve come up with information on exactly one such configured Crosley-based engine, and it wasn’t the one I’ve been looking for. Then, a few months ago, Ron […]

Social Networking With Your Off-Road Heroes

Recently, a brief discussion in the HMN editorial bullpen touched on that social networking nuisance, Facebook, and our various curmudgeonly opinions of it: “In MY day, we networked the old-fashioned way with faxes, chatrooms and e-mail….” Needless to say, none of us have seen the movie, and frankly, the only reason I joined Facebook was […]