David Greenlees over at The Old Motor recently posted this photo of a pair of eight-wheeled trucks – one apparently a school bus, the other a stakeside – and wondered aloud who built them and why. I think we have an answer. When David mentioned that the photo was possibly taken in San Francisco, I […]
This is not a Hollywood blog. Most celebrities can go pound salt, for all we care. However, we will make an exception to not only note that Clint Eastwood turns 81 today, but that his first car – as seen on Darren Allison’s Clint Eastwood Archive – was a Model T-based flathead-powered lakes modified that […]
If there’s an unsung hero of American performance cars, it’s Francisco “Fran” Hernandez, the Southern California hot rodder turned factory racing facilitator. He’s known variously for being one of the contenders in the first drag race, one of the pioneers of nitromethane use in drag cars, the guy behind Mercury’s Trans-Am efforts, and one of […]