La Carrera Panamericana 2010 kicks off

The 2010 LaCarrera Panamericana, the great Mexican Road Race and a frequent bucket-list staple for our readers, kicks off today with a full roster of competitors. Drivers and crews from all over the world are squaring off in a vintage field heavy with purpose-built Studebakers, Porsches, Alfas, BMWs, Volvos, Mustangs and even two Mercedes 300 […]

A veneer of real polish

Once a year, automotive writer, historian, and stellar ex-racing PR guru Tom Cotter hosts a Woody Party at his homestead in the lovely college town of Davidson, North Carolina. I would have loved to make this year’s event, which took place on September 25, but couldn’t. I’m especially disappointed once I got these photos from […]

SIA Flashback – Olds’s Exciting Experimentals

From last week’s experimental V-5 diesel at the Olds Museum in Lansing, Michigan, we move on to another group of experimental engines at the same museum, though built for a much more different purpose. In SIA #76, August 1983, Dennis Casteele gave us a glimpse of three high-performance Oldsmobile V-8s – a Hemi-headed design, a […]