Ryan Blaney Does Right

When Ryan Blaney won the NASCAR Cup race at Talladega on Monday, October 14, he became our new favorite driver. Because he won? No. Because he’s handsome and well-spoken? Nope. Because of his Dent Wizard sponsor? Naah. Because he drives a Ford Mustang? No. Because he...

Simone Museum Honors a Racing Legend

By Walter Elliott An estimated 110 people learned about Tazio Nuvolari and got a close look at four of the pre-World War II cars he drove or replicas thereof at the Simone Foundation Automotive Museum in Philadelphia on Monday, September 28, 2019. Visitors, for about...

The Car Industry Role Model (T)

In what would become one of the broadest reaching, longest running, most influential car productions of the 21st century, the Ford Model T was released on this day, October 1, 1908, and would go on to turn the existing car industry on its head. Ford was not the first,...

The Rise & Fall of Automobile Racing at Dorney Park

by Paul Weisel In 1860, Solomon Dorney developed a fish hatchery on his land southwest of Allentown, Pennsylvania, and began to hold weekend fishing contests.  He later added picnic groves, a swimming pool, and a few playground rides for families who spent the day...

European History in Nashville, Tennessee

Sometimes, it takes an outsider to make you explore your own backyard. At least, that’s the excuse I’m giving myself for only having just visited the Lane Motor Museum, less than five miles away from my home here in Nashville, where I have now lived for more than a...