Over at The Old Motor, contributor Ivan Pozega recently shared a couple photos of the Giants Despair hillclimb in Pennsylvania, circa 1959, showing a Lotus 11 and a pair of Elvas above and Roger Penske in a Porsche RSK below. See how many other cars you can identify. UPDATE: As reader Ron Mann pointed out […]
Drag racing in New England hasn’t always been relegated to Epping, New Hampshire. In fact, the region saw plenty of side-by-side action from the 1950s onward on a number of tracks, many of them repurposed airstrips. One of the longest lived of those tracks was the one at Orange, Massachusetts, where drag racing will return […]
During last year’s March Military Campaign, we introduced you to Private Lewis van Alstyne of the New York Guard and the distinctive roadster that David Greenlees later identified as a GJG. A couple more photos surfaced a couple of months later, and just recently, we received one of the clearest photos yet of the GJG, […]