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Wombwell Auto Parts, located in Lexington, Kentucky, sold auto and truck parts and operated a fully equipped machine shop. This type of operation was common until the early part of this century when many machine shops closed their doors due to many modern engines lasting throughout a vehicle’s life. A changing market also favored large…
By Michael Lamm: The 1925 Julian contained many of the key elements of the Volkswagen Beetle: backbone chassis, rear engine, air cooling and swing axles. Julian Brown used his first name to christen his radically different motorcar. He himself was called Jule by friends and, as a young man, he inherited $2.5 million from his…
For the fun and enjoyment of our readers being able to join in and solve mysteries, in this weekly Friday series, we ask you to tell us the year, make, and model of all of these vehicles, along with the location of each scene. You can look back on over three hundred of the earlier…
Today’s featured enhanced image of traffic congestion in Washington, DC, apparently was shot from the back of a moving vehicle with a long-focus lens on a May 22, 1964, by photographer Marion S. Trikosko. The noted American photojournalist’s work was featured in the New York Times and the U.S. News & World Report, where he…
By Robert D. Cunningham: In 1939, four ordinary high school juniors embarked on an epic 5-week, 6,000-mile trek from Fort Dodge, Iowa, to the Pacific Coast and back. Most remarkable was their choice of conveyance: a dilapidated 1925 Model “T” Ford. The previous owner sold it to them for just four dollars, and he generously…
In an effort to save the Company in 1936, when some of its last cars were being assembled, the once-proud-old-line Pierce-Arrow Motor Company set a course to enter a new market. The automaker began building an outstanding new product, the Pierce-Arrow “Travelodge” luxury travel trailer. The Great Depression had not been kind to the conservative…
The Fisher brother’s involvement in the car bodybuilding business began in 1904, when two of the brothers came to Detroit, MI, from Ohio to work in the body shops that supplied the growing horseless carriage trade. Being quick studies, in 1908, they started the Fisher Body Company and by 1913 were producing 100,000 bodies yearly;…
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