One of the most cherished automotive events next year of any kind will be the centennial of the first Indianapolis 500 on Memorial Day. Among a slew of commemorative events in the pipeline for that landmark anniversary is the creation of a U.S. Postal Service stamp honoring the first 500 in 1911, unveiled this week […]
Many engine builders pursued customers in both the automotive and aviation fields, Lycoming perhaps the best known among them. It wasn’t for lack of trying that Glenn Curtiss is omitted from that list today, as we see in Keith Marvin’s story in SIA #76, August 1983, recording Curtiss’s efforts to place the OX-5 V-8 in […]
This isn’t part of it, but I’ve been getting some feedback since I tapped out a column for the April 2010 issue of Hemmings Classic Car, which, in part, described my discovery of a Marmon-powered Ford coupe in one of the terrific Don Montgomery hot rod history books. Hemmings Nation citizen Gaylord T. Willett, who […]