Charlie Beesley’s interests don’t just run to old land-speed racers, as one might assume from seeing the pictures of the Kenz and Leslie 777 streamliner that he shared with us last week. Rather, he’s been collecting vintage photographs for years, many of which he displays at Reservatory.net, almost all of which come sans context. I’ve […]
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 […]
I know, the Iowa Department of Transportation has to be about the unlikeliest source of entertainment, and much of their Vimeo video stream looks like a snooze fest, but we did enjoy their “Highway Relocations,” if not for the thrilling narrative, then for the views of cars and trucks as they were in middle America […]