Tatsuro Toyoda, the second son of Toyota Motor Corp.’s founder Kiichiro Toyoda and uncle of current President Akio Toyoda, and who served a relatively short tenure as president of the company in the 1990s. Toyoda died on December 30, 2017. His time at the head of...
We spent a December Saturday at the East Coast Indoor Dirt Nationals in Trenton, NJ, recently, where we were reminded that a dirt track is a living, breathing thing, even when you dig it up and move it indoors. Dirt track operators across the country are all too...
For many of us, late fall means the last gasps of a late car season. There may be a few bright and sunny days, a couple bursts of warm weather, but the east coast, the Midwest and the north have begun the trek toward hibernation and winterization, tops up, covers on...
This week, in the humble year of 1915, the one millionth Ford vehicle rolled off the assembly line. Imagine that. Imagine an era not far after the one-car-at-a-time days. Imagine a world in which Henry Ford had gone from madman tinkering in his garage to a household...
Everyone has their Thanksgiving traditions. Dinner with the family, of course, but maybe also going to the Macy’s parade, or listening to Alice’s Restaurant, or watching “Turkey’s Away” from WKRP in Cincinnati. For us, it’s Laurel & Hardy’s 1933 classic March...
This Week In Motorhead History The year is 1895. America is still skeptical of the gas-powered automobile. Henry Ford’s assembly line would not begin rolling for eighteen years. The age of speed, turn signals or even roads is far in the distant future. A future that...
