History

When you think of Smart — if you do — the vehicle that usually comes to mind is the second-generation Fortwo.…

U-Haul has an interesting history. After getting its start renting trailers at service stations, the company went…

On December 26, 1956, a man named Preston Tucker died at the age of 53. His name may not be immediately familiar to…

At 1:50 p.m. on December 20, 1951, the world’s first breeder reactor harvested power. The Experimental Breeder…

Hey, here’s something fascinating just for all you crazy kids who have chosen to exist in the present: the past was…

We’ve been losing things over the Bermuda Triangle for over 100 years, but one of the strangest occurrences took…

On Thanksgiving day in 1895, Frank Duryea won the first automobile race ever hosted in the United States. 125 years…

In an essay published after his death, civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. called public…

On November 22, 1900, entrepreneur Emil Jellinek took his specially-crafted Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft machine out…

It’s the time to get a little spooky, and since most of us aren’t going out to celebrate this year, let’s talk about…

I’ve been recently thinking about the last time Americans seemed to have collectively lost their minds: the Cold…

When the automobile started taking the world by storm, it was pretty much a guarantee that the first customers would…

Alanson Partridge Brush. Remember that name. Because it was according to his patents that Cadillac put into…

Hey gang, do you like giant vehicles meant for Antarctic exploration? I do too! In fact, I recently wrote about the A…

The Meyers Manx dune buggy is an icon of the 1960s and Mexico’s Baja peninsula is hallowed ground for off-road…

Look at the swell little wagon in the photo above. Wood grain, a four-speed manual transmission, an efficient-ish…

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I’ve had some wonderful opportunities to pester Ford’s archive department for…

The Bugatti Veyron has an unending list of accolades to its name. There was a time when it was the most…

I have to admit, while I know that’s a fairly cumbersome headline, I really like just how much is packed in there,…

Fifty years ago today, UAW president Walter P. Reuther, his wife and four others died in a mysterious plane crash…