* We were saddened to hear this week about the passing of Leighton Irwin, a pioneer of Canadian motorsport and contributor over on the Garage Blog. Gary at the Garage Blog has an excellent photo gallery and remembrance of Leighton. * Johnny tipped us off to this one: Apparently, there’s some sort of French subculture […]
There are a lot of reasons to love Duesenbergs: the amazing engineering, the breathtaking bodies, the incomparable feeling behind the wheel. But the thing that makes some of us just go nuts is the history. I don’t mean the Fred-and-Augie history; rather, it’s the wonderful, unlikely and often conflicting stories that seem to accrete around […]
It’s been a few months since our friend David Greenlees posted the above photo of a mystery engine to the H.A.M.B.’s awesome and lengthy History of auto racing, 1894-1944 post, and we’re no closer to a solid answer explaining the engine’s design now than we were then. David noted that the photograph’s caption identifies the […]