Lost & Found: Ty Cobb’s Chalmers

The current Sports Illustrated has a great story about Ty Cobb, Nap Lajoie and the race for the 1910 batting title, and how Hugh Chalmers of car fame hotted up the season with the promise of a Chalmers 30 to the batting champion. Read it. Done? So the long and short is that both ended […]

Crunch time for a once-collectible Pontiac

The two-lane stretch of Route 7 between Troy, New York, and Hemmings’ hometown of Bennington, Vermont, is a cavalcade of death and destruction, inflicted by motorists with great confidence but questionable judgment and/or skill. Witness the latest roadside attraction along this a-holes’ autobahn, a 1955 Pontiac four-door that had been parked (presumably for sale, but […]