Posted by Kurt Ernst - 1962 Kurtis Aguila. All photos by Darin Schnabel, courtesy RM Sotheby's. By 1962, legendary builder Frank Kurtis was winding down his automotive business, but a request from Texas racer Herb Stelter seemed like one last shot at motorsport glory. Stelter wanted a car he could race fenderless in Formula 366 events, or with fenders in sports car classes, and the Kurtis Aguila (Spanish for eagle) was born. Just three chassis were built, and only one was road raced; last Saturday, Stelter's former 1962 Kurtis Aguila c... Read On>> 
Hemmings Find of the Day - 1970 Datsun 510 Posted by Daniel Strohl - There's a little bit of work left to be done on this 1970 Datsun 510 for sale on Hemmings.com, but that's nothing compared to the restoration work the seller's already completed, from floor and rocker replacement to a head rebuild - pretty much everything necessary to turn it into a solid, running, and straight car. From the seller's description: I bought the car 6 months ago and did everything needed to be a turn-key car. It has the original L16 with the Hitachi carb rebuilt, the original 4-speed and differentia... Read On>>
Gary Hoonsbeen, authority on Curved Dash Oldsmobiles, dies at 77 Posted by Daniel Strohl - Photo courtesy Oldsmobile, via Steve Moskowitz. Driving a Curved Dash Oldsmobile across the country when it was new took skill, mechanical aptitude, and courage. Driving a Curved Dash Oldsmobile across the country in more recent years still took skill, mechanical aptitude, and courage, and one of the few living men qualified for that task, Gary Hoonsbeen, died last week at the age of 77. Born in Black River Falls, Wisconsin, Hoonsbeen began tinkering with old cars at the age of 14, though not with the antiques... Read On>>
Open Diff: When are parts just parts? Posted by Kurt Ernst - Pandora, my 2000 BMW R1100R. Photo by author. Spring came early to Vermont this year, and with 60-degree temps in the forecast I opted to wake Pandora, the name I've taken to calling my oft-troublesome 2000 BMW R1100R, from her winter slumber. Thanks to the use of a smart charger, the battery was up to the task, but the lumpy idle reminded me I should have been more careful about draining the fuel in the tank last fall. With a fuel-filter change and throttle body synch already on my "to-do" list, I wasn't parti... Read On>>
Volkswagen marks six decades of building buses in Hannover Posted by Kurt Ernst - The Hannover plant in 1959. Photos courtesy Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles. On March 5, 1955, Volkswagen broke ground on a new factory in Hannover-Stoecken, Germany, and just over one year later, on March 8, 1956, the first Hannover-built Type 2 Transporter rolled off the assembly line. Sixty years later, on March 9, 2016, the Historical Museum of Hannover debuted a new exhibit entitled The Bulli builders, which commemorates both the Volkswagen van and its lasting impact on the regional economy. Building t... Read On>>
South Charleston, West Virginia, 1973 Posted by Daniel Strohl - Like many photos taken for EPA's Documerica series, this one of South Charleston's downtown area - specifically Seventh Street, looking east, which we came across on Jim and Chester's Garage - uses a loooong lens to juxtapose a thriving downtown with, likely, the reason for that downtown's fortune: a now-demolished heavy-polluting industrial plant located along what is now known as Brownfield Way. What do you see here?... Read On>>
This Day in Automotive History | 3/16/1988: | Racing legend "Mickey" Thompson and wife murdered. |
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