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On Saturday, January 10, 2015, the San Diego area Horseless Carriage Club of America regions will be gathering to commemorate the centennial of the San Diego Exposition Road Race. The event will be held at the San Diego Automotive Museum in Balboa Park and included in the activities will be a day-long car show and a…
* Updated * Thanks to reader John Root of GeekBobber we now have included more photos of Fred Luther’s motorcycle and the text of an article about the machine in the June 1950 Cycle magazine that can be found at the bottom of the post. Fred Luther was a motorcycle racer, who competed as early as 1909. Not…
The second part of The Harley J. Earl Story covers the time frame between 1917 and July of 1919 at which time Don Lee officially bought the Earl Automobile Works. It was during this period that Earl’s artistic abilities, sense of style, engineering talents and his custom auto body designs received a lot of attention at the…
The great majority of us when we were younger collected played with and traded the distinctive and well-made Matchbox Models made in England. Today we present you two films (1962 and 1965) we found via Steve Natale showing the interesting story of just how the models were designed, prototyped and manufactured. Both of the videos…
This is the fifth and last installment of photos from the Harland Krause Motorcycle Photo Album. The Model “T” Ford speedster (above) is the second view of it shown in this series, and the earlier image can be seen here. It appears that when it was built the chassis components offered with the Mercury Speedster were used,…
* Update * Ariejan Bos solved the mystery, it is a Briggs-Detroiter, read his comment below and see the illustration of a touring car. For our readers that like identifying mystery cars here is a circa 1912 thirty horsepower-sized roadster to use to put your car sleuthing skills to work. Some of the distinctive clues…
Here is a unique treat; a nighttime steam train ride following North San Fernando Road in Southern, California. The trip starts out in Burbank, and heads north up the road lined with interesting sights to North Hollywood. The footage by Columbia was taken on the evening of April 17, 1946 for use in the film…
James Scripps-Booth, heir to the Detroit Evening News fortune, developed three unique vehicles during the 1912 to 1922 period when he was involved with building vehicles. The Scripps-Booth car introduced in 1915 with a four-cylinder engine, and the o.h.v. V8-powered machines that followed in 1916 were his most successful cars. It is a rare event…
The Model “T” Ford has been said to have put America on wheels, in addition to that it also gave young men a platform on which to build their own inexpensive speedster or racing car. Earlier here on The Old Motor we have posted a five part series called Model T Ford Speed and Racing…
In our opinion some of the most spectacular classic cars were produced during the height of the Great Depression. High at the top of our list are those wearing Dietrich coachwork with V-shaped windshields built between the years of 1932 and 1934. Personal favorites are many of the closed body styles such as the 1934…
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