Many Americans may not know this, but there’s a Memorial Day kind of commemoration in Great Britain, too, that coincides with our own. It’s one of the largest shows of military trucks and regalia in Great Britain, known colloquially as Trucks and Troops. This year’s date is May 28 through 30, and the location is […]

The model-building hobby has lost another of its forefathers. Robert Reder, co-creator of Monogram Models, has died. He was 93. Starting in 1935, Reder was a designer and draftsman at Comet Model Airplane & Supply Co. in Chicago. During World War II, he worked with the Navy to develop a national program for building identification […]

The corridor between Interstates 78 and 80 now funnels a lot of New York commuters to western New Jersey and northeastern Pennsylvania. A lot of racing cars used to go banging along the original two-lane highways en route to clashing on carved-out circles in the great valley where New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania meet. […]