Golden Age of Trucking Museum, RIP?

We received word last week (and noticed on their website) that the Golden Age of Trucking Museum in Middlebury, Connecticut, is just a week from closing its doors permanently unless it can secure enough funding between now and then to remain open. As Hemmings Motor News readers will recall, I profiled the museum back in […]

War is hell

Pulled a few more photos from the Ford Media site. Photos depict the Ford-Werke plant in Köln in 1945, and captions note the employees of the plant “salvaging usable parts from trucks damaged by artillery fire.” While looking for some brief background on the Köln plant (more pictures, including some of the slave laborers at […]

SIA Flashback: Southern Sleds

You know what they say about Southern cars, indestructible by the elements, well kept, etc. This series of images are 45 years old, but they demonstrate that the old saw about good iron from the South has a strong factual grounding.
SIA contributor Nelson Coryell caught these cars in 1965 at Keesler Air Force Base, outside […]