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,...
It was over 100 years ago this month that automotive pioneer Charles W. Nash, at the time a former president of General Motors, acquired the Thomas B. Jeffery Company of Kenosha, Wisconsin, and renamed it the Nash Motors Company. Nash automobiles would then live on...
This Week in Motorhead History On June 1, 1934, the Japanese based automobile manufacturer Jidosha-Seizo Kabushiki-Kaisha changed its name to Nissan Motor Company. It had been founded the previous December and would produce the company’s first Datsun the following...
