Lost and Found overflow – Step aside, ma’am, we’re racing

Bill Schulz recently sent along this photo which he inherited, but which came with absolutely no information that would help him identify the car in it. Bill writes:
If the photo’s from my mother’s side, it’s probably in the Kerhonkson, NY, area. If my father’s, probably somewhere around Poughkeepsie/Pleasant Valley, NY.
That is probably my paternal grandmother […]

Who killed the (steam/turbine-powered) car?

Another Monday, another batch of very cool old press photos from David Greenlees. Where last week’s photos followed a streamlining theme, this week’s photos depict very early alternative-fuel concept vehicles from GM. First, above, a photo from May 7, 1969, depicting a bunch of techs installing a four-cylinder engine into a 1969 Pontiac Grand Prix. […]