Travelers coming to the area for Monterey Car Week and its showcase event, the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, have three options to make the journey by air. The first option, and one which the majority of air travelers will utilize, is to fly in on one of the air...
Check out Part I and Part II of this series. The first two articles in this series about automobile manufacturers who have also produced aircraft separately looked at two divisions of General Motors that made military planes during World War II (WWII). This third...
Part One of this series of articles concerned General Motors’ Eastern Aircraft Division (EAD), an entity made up of five previously separate automobile and component manufacturing plants that were combined into one business unit to assemble Grumman Avenger and Wildcat...
Part I of 5 At a number of car shows during the past few years Honda has been touting both their latest cars as well as the HondaJet, their entry into the very light business jet market. It’s a very advanced design that looks good and claims excellent performance....
This St. Patrick’s Day, celebrate both Irish pride and the arrival of Spring by taking a drive in your 1959 Shamrock. What, you don’t own a Shamrock, the “Irish T-Bird” built in Ireland? Well, don’t fret. Almost no one owns a Shamrock. Fewer than a dozen were...
This Month in Motorhead History On March 17, 1834, Gottlieb Daimler was born in Germany. Had he been born 100 years later, he would have seen an automotive industry the likes of which early automakers could hardly dare dream, and yet, had he been born 100 years later,...
