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Today we return to the “Images from the River Rouge” series with another set of interesting pictures by photographers who were employed by the Ford Motor Company. The lead image taken in July of 1935 contains four workers on the fuel tank assembly line. The two men wearing hoods used to lessen their exposure to the…
By David Greenlees: This is the second part of this story and this installment of it features a custom built-up-ten-piece roller bearing crankshaft for a Mark IV 427 c.i. Chevrolet V-8 engine that was used in NHRA Championship Race meets in the 1970s. If you are new to this series of posts you can look…
Updated: Time flies by and it has been over ten months since the last update on the 1967 Volvo 1800s project car and since that time quite a bit of work has been accomplished on it. The lead image by Richard Campbell shows the car back on the track at Lime Rock Park located in Salisbury,…
General Motors introduced one of the most important innovations in closed car passenger comfort, its new “No Draft I.C.V Ventilation” window system to car buyers in 1933. GM’s unique new vent window system led the way by offering this new individualized comfort to all passengers who rode in its Fischer-bodied cars. Alfred J. Fischer was…
It is likely that a number of our readers have watched a video or viewed photos of early-1950s Cadillac or Packard sedans fitted with one of California inventor Brooks Walker’s patented fifth wheel parking devices. Recently we discovered that his “Park Car” mechanism constructed and filmed in the fifties was not the first one he…
A year and a half ago, Stanley, the shop cat was found under a shed behind The Old Motor workshop building by Lena a yellow Labrador mix (she was found inside of Grand Central Station in NYC) who is one of our two rescued shop dogs. Somehow he was separated from his mother who is…
Today’s lead image dated to November 6, 1934, by the source, shows either a 1934 or ’35 Chevrolet “Knee-Action” promotional car equipped with it parked in front of the St. Louis Monument located in Forest Park at St. Louis, Missouri. This form of independent front suspension was developed by Andre DuBonnet, and Chevrolet’s version of it…
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