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Bill McGuire of Mac’s Motor City Garage has found what may be the ultimate period film footage of a fifties drive-in restaurant. Bill’s research turned up that Beany’s Drive-In was located in Long Beach, California, at the Pacific Coast Highway and Ximeno Avenue. He has also uncovered the fact that the rotating mascot at the…
We have to admit an attraction to most anything Glenn Curtiss designed or built. The lightweight Curtiss Aerocar Trailer built using aircraft constrution methods is high at the top of our list of his creations. The unit pictured above was used by the Todd School for Boys in Woodstock, Illinois. The trailer appears to be…
Many of you may have heard the old saying “get a horse” that was used to kid around with early motorists out on the road. A ban on driving automobiles on Nantucket Island with the exception of one road was enacted in 1908 causing one man to have to use horsepower for some of his car…
Wintertime is upon us in New England and with the ground frozen it makes for prime time for logging with heavy equipment. After not having covered anything steam-powered in a while, this pair of images and the video below found by Lombard Log Hauler enthusiast Terry Harper fits the bill. He had the following to…
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…
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