Big Sky brawlers

Every so often, stuff passes through here that’s both interesting and not easily predicted. Did anyone out there know that stock car racing used to be all over the place in Montana, which is still a pretty unpopulated place today, much less 50-plus years ago? Allan E. Brown’s definitive “History of America’s Speedways” has a list of […]

March Military Campaign – coast to coast in a Mitchell Ranger, 1909

By 1909, crossing the country was a largely symbolic gesture, especially to deliver a message. Transcontinental runs were already becoming the stuff of legend, and trains and telegraphs had already connected the country.
However, the U.S. military had yet to fully grasp just how important the automobile would become. Considering how technologically advanced the military has […]

The mystery of the Cuban skycar

On a suggestion from one of our readers, I picked up Richard Schweid’s 2004 book on 1950s cars in Cuba, “Che’s Chevrolet, Fidel’s Oldsmobile: On the Road in Cuba.” While I didn’t find exactly what I was looking for in the book, I did come across a couple other tidbits worth mentioning.
One of them dealt […]