This is pretty bitchin’. In 1941, two Argentineans got a hair up their asses to drive their model-t speedster from Buenos Aires to New York. They gathered some dough from some sponsors like Excelsior, Fairchild, and Raid, packed their little speedster up, and headed north. The journey was as you would expect it to be. [...]
History
Buenos Aires to New York
Posted on November 16th, 2009 by Ryan
Filed under: History
Filed under: History
Experimental Corvette SS
Last night I was laying in bed with the T.V. on and using the sounds of a cheesy old Elvis movie to put me to sleep. I don’t even know which movie it was… Some bad musical. Just as I was about to nod off and just as the movie was coming to a close, [...]
Dean Batchelor 1927-1994
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I used to help run a few hot rod shows in Northern California, and one of my favorite jobs was receiving cool pictures with entry forms. Sometimes I would score an old photo of a family car, thrown in just for kicks. This image came in an envelope with a letter explaining a little bit [...]
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