Well now this is interesting. Since discussing the plywood cars and hydraulic drive systems of Raymond Russell, we’ve been in contact with Russell’s son, Raymond Benjamin Russell, who sent us a much better photograph of the Gadabout than we could find earlier. The gadabout is a remarkable car in and of itself, but check out […]
In May, I wrote up some snapshots from the Keels and Wheels Concours in Texas. Now, official coverage is running in the upcoming Hemmings, but there were more great stories than I could fit into the four pages allotted. And I do mean great; it seemed as though everyone I talked to had a story […]
In August 1918, Henry Ford bought the entire northern half of Green Island, New York. His friend, Thomas Edison, had introduced Ford to the area; Edison founded GE in nearby Schenectady and reportedly loved to fish and hunt on that half of the island hugging the west bank of the Hudson River, just a dozen […]