Steinmetz’s electric before the Steinmetz Electric

While in and around Albany last week to visit the Ford hydroelectric plant on Green Island, I took the opportunity to head over to Schenectady to investigate something I had read on Make just a few days prior: an electric car that was once owned by Charles Steinmetz.
As presented by Make, a couple of the […]

Fiberglass fun in SoCal

Our friend Geoff Hacker has been living it up in the Los Angeles area the last few days, in part to help celebrate Fiberglass Day at the Petersen Automotive Museum, an event that Geoff helped plan to showcase what creative gearheads were doing with fiberglass in the 1950s and 1960s. Though Fiberglass Day has passed, […]

The Drowning Pool

This is Riverside Park in Ypsilanti, Michigan, where the Orphan Car Show annually takes place. See that gazebo? It’s ordinarily on dry land. The problem was that the night before last Sunday’s scheduled show, lower Michigan was slashed by both thunderstorms and tornadoes, including one that passed through southern Washtenaw County before causing awful damage […]