Memory Lane

Your name is Frank Duryea and the year is 1895. You are reading a tattered copy of the Chicago Times-Herald and see an announcement for a race for horseless carriages, offering $5,000 in prizes, $2,000 for the winner. You quickly find your brother Charles and show him the article. “Let’s enter that race!” you say. […]

1978 was a big year for the Corvette: It was the marque’s 25th Anniversary. As well, the Corvette was chosen to be the official pace car of the Indy 500. Chevrolet must have been very proud of its sports car, for all 78 Corvettes received special commemorative emblems. The 10-year-old third-generation body was subtly updated […]

Mopar’s challenge to the Ford Mustang and the Chevy Camaro The late sixties was the heyday for Classic American Muscle cars. Ford started the ball rolling in 1964 with the Mustang. GM jumped onto the bandwagon with the Chevrolet Camaro 1967 and the race was on. Not to be outdone, the two Mopar divisions, Dodge […]

Several years ago General Motors aired a series of commercials featuring a ghostly, fedora-wearing figure whom it identifies as Harley Earl, GM’s legendary chief stylist. The implication is that the spirit of design which Earl once exemplified has returned to a company whose products have been lacking panache during that time. It’s an interesting touch, […]

The Ford Model T has a rich and storied background to it and has become known as one of the most important cars in the history of the industry, but how did it get this way? In the beginning, Henry Ford’s plant assembled cars from components purchased mainly from the Dodge brothers, who were making […]