On February 28, 1940, Mario Andretti and his twin brother, Aldo, were born in Montona, a town on the peninsula of Istria which at the time was a part of Italy. We mention Aldo because, while today Mario is known worldwide as a championship-winning racing driver, few...
During a visit to St. Petersburg, FL in early February we made an all-too-brief side trip to the Tampa Bay Auto Museum in the northern suburb of Pinellas Park. This amazing facility was opened in 2005 by Mr. Alain Cerf, the founder of privately-owned PolyPack, a...
Greetings fellow car enthusiasts. I’m very excited for this opportunity to work with Car Show Safari! My name is Chris, and I’m from Waltham Massachusetts. I currently work in the auto industry in car sales. I may be stating the obvious, but I am a die-hard car...
On February 7, 1958, the Dutch truck manufacturer DAF introduced its first passenger car, the DAF 600, in Amsterdam. Groundbreaking in neither size nor appearance, the car is remembered for having a continuously variable transmission. The “Variomatic” transmission...
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...
