Found: John Bond’s Byers SR100 and a mystery Byers

As long as I’ve known Geoff Hacker, I’ve been amazed at both his dedication to fiberglass cars from the 1950s and his ability to sniff them out, as if his nose is finely tuned to the odors of half-century-old resin and fiberglass dust. From his trip to Southern California earlier this month, Geoff filed this […]

More happenings from Charlotte Motor Speedway

While my friends and I were running around the tri-oval in NASCAR race cars recently, Richard Petty Driving Experience personnel were also conducting a Drive SRT Track Day for owners and enthusiasts of the SRT-4, SRT-8 and SRT-10 Chrysler products. The orientation format is similar to the NASCAR Experience in that you are shuttled through […]

Has the Big Noise been silenced?

We don’t often do this, but when a legitimately historic vehicle goes missing, we often try and find it.  Here’s an example. When I was writing “Miller’s Time,” the book that tells the life story of longtime Roger Penske confidant Don Miller, he mentioned that he’d like to find the race car depicted in this […]