Ludvigsen Library headed to new home

The Ludvigsen Library, the vast collection amassed by award-winning automotive historian, researcher and author (and longtime Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car contributor) Karl Ludvigsen, has been acquired by the Collier Collection. Managed by the not-for-profit Revs Institute for Automotive Research of Naples, Florida, the Collier Collection is one of the world’s foremost automotive museums, with […]

Earl Gilmore, the godfather of all dekotora

If you’re spent any time at all on the Intertubes, I’m sure you’ve seen photos of the dekotora – those brightly lit and garishly decorated trucks in Japan. As David Greenlees showed us recently on The Old Motor, they weren’t the first to festoon their trucks with lights – Earl B. Gilmore, of Gilmore Oil, […]