Today we honor those who greatly influenced the automotive industry that we lost in 2022. Kevin Kalkhoven, winning car owner for the 2013 Indianapolis 500 and a key figure in the CART/Champ Car series in the early 2000s. A venture capitalist of considerable wealth,...
We watched Al Unser, Jr., in his Indy 500 debut. We watched him win his first, and his second Indy 500s. We watched him give a thumbs up to Emerson Fittipaldi when they crashed while battling for Indianapolis victory. We heard him as he said, “You just don’t know...
The Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance and Monterey Car Week 2018 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance program cover In the automotive world, terms with French origins are not as prevalent as in other fields, notably aviation, where fuselage, empennage, aileron, and others...
From Cars to Planes and Back Again, Part Five The prior installments of this series about car companies that have also produced aircraft looked at divisions of GM and Ford. This latest article explores Nash-Kelvinator, the corporate entity that was the result of the...
As discussed in part three of this series, Ford Motor Company’s monumental effort that resulted in its completion and delivery of a record number of B-24 bombers during World War II (WW II), along with their pre-war history as a builder of the legendary Tri-Motor...
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...
