SIA Flashback – Racing in the Streets

Bridgehampton remains a legendary chapter in the history of East Coast racing, as well it should: With attendance from Briggs Cunningham, Miles Collier, Tom McCahill and many other big names of autodom, the racing was hot, and with very little crowd control along the open streets of Long Island, the racing was fairly immediate as […]

SIA Flashback – Mr. Jaeger’s Five Sixes

Who doesn’t love the story of a frustrated inventor? In the case of Don Butler’s article in SIA #69, June 1982, the frustrated inventor is Charles F. Jaeger Sr., who turned his attention (as many inventors eventually do) to automobiles. Rather than focus on one specific aspect of the automobile, Jaeger decided to go into […]

SIA Flashback: Southern Sleds

You know what they say about Southern cars, indestructible by the elements, well kept, etc. This series of images are 45 years old, but they demonstrate that the old saw about good iron from the South has a strong factual grounding.
SIA contributor Nelson Coryell caught these cars in 1965 at Keesler Air Force Base, outside […]