Success! Cadillac’s OHC V-12 engine photos found

Times have, apparently, changed. When Richard Langworth went looking for photos of the 1960s Cadillac V-12 to prove its existence for the story he wrote on that episode of Cadillac history in Special Interest Autos, he came up empty-handed. But after a few well-placed e-mails, GM’s Heritage Center (which now has one of the engines […]

Early shoots of green – enviro-conscious cars in 1973

With the OPEC oil embargo against the United States just starting to lead to nationwide gas shortages, the first-ever Symposium on Low Pollution Power Systems Development at first glance seemed rather fortuitously timed.
Yet, as the very name of the symposium stated, its aims were less to reduce oil consumption by making vehicles more fuel efficient […]

The real cars of NASCAR in the ’60s, with Freddie Lorenzen

Think the olden days of NASCAR were better simply because the “stock” cars were really stock? Then take a good look through these photos sent to us by Ron Kellogg of the Kellogg Auto Archive featuring Freddie Lorenzen’s Holman-Moody-prepped 1963 Ford Galaxie, as shot by photographer Ralph Poole shortly before the 1963 Motor Trend 500 […]