The present emergency: Akron, Ohio, December 1941

Pearl Harbor galvanized the country and sent it headlong into World War II, this we know. Just how everything changed – and so drastically – after that day is ripe for illustration, and Alfred Palmer did a good job of that with his photograph above, shot outside a large hangar at a Goodyear facility in […]

SIA Flashback – The Bridge Revisited

It is because of old SIA articles like this one by Frank Bruno in SIA #75, June 1983, that I’ve started to take a stroll through the parking lots at major automotive events I go to. Sure, today I’m not apt to find any Delahayes or Duesenbergs or a Bugatti Type 57, as Frank did […]

In the parking lot at Amelia Island 2010

You’ll see my coverage of Amelia Island – both the concours and the two auctions – over the next few months in our various magazines, but what we never typically o in our show coverage is go out to the parking lots to see what interesting vehicles were driven to the show. So I spent […]