It’s really This Month in Motorhead History, because two events in the month of December converged to have a lasting effect on the history of the automobile. It began 215 years ago, on December 29, 1800, in New Haven, Connecticut, when Charles Goodyear was born. ...
It was 90 years ago, on December 12, 1925, that the Milestone Mo-Tel opened in San Luis Obispo, California – the world’s first “motel,” quite literally. Thanks to the growing popularity of the automobile, travel in the US was changing in the 1920s. Where previously...
A View from the Bleachers by Tomm Scalera It’s the day after Thanksgiving and the weather was unseasonably warm and sunny. Perfect weather for racing. My oldest friend and I headed down the Garden State Parkway to Wall, NJ, to watch auto racing at Wall Stadium. And...
On Thanksgiving night in 1934, with no football on television, Gilmore Stadium in Los Angeles played host to the then-emerging sport of midget auto racing, and the Turkey Night Grand Prix was born. This Thanksgiving night, while most of America is under the influence...
When George Barris died at age 89 on November 5, most of the published obituaries referred to him as the designer of the Batmobile for the 1960s television series. But among dyed-in-the-wool car guys from the 1950s and 60s, Barris was much, much more than that. He...
