The Petersen Automotive Museum, located on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, will be opening their doors to a new exhibit this weekend. NHRA: Sixty Years of Thunder is devoted solely to the history of the NHRA – from its creation to the modern machines that propel the sport’s biggest names down the quarter-mile in […]

Mecum’s Bob McDorman auction at Bob McDorman Chevrolet in Canal Winchester, Ohio, November 9, hauled in $7 million (excluding buyer’s premium) for about 150 cars in McDorman’s collection. Mecum reported that 1,000 bidders turned out for the one-day sale, which included a wide array of Chevrolets from pre-war to the present as well as some […]

There’s no way you can have grown up anywhere on the Eastern Seaboard, anytime post-war, and not be familiar with the accomplishments of G. Grier Beam, even if you’re already asking, “Who’s that?” The company he founded in 1932 was Carolina Freight Carriers, whose red, black and white colors flew proudly on eastern roads for […]