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,...
Text and photos by Steve Temple for DriveOnline.com Choosing whether to Restore or Resto-Mod an older Corvette isn’t always easy. While wrestling with the merits of bringing back an original versus tampering with a classic, the final decision might depend on...
The humorist Jean Shepherd, best known for the movie A Christmas Story and who had a popular and long-running late-night radio show on WOR in New York City decades ago, once said, “Nostalgia is a disease.” I suffer from that disease. Let me explain. Each January, the...
Those We Lost In 2021 John Hogan, a UK-based advertising executive who played a key role in bringing multinational corporate tobacco sponsorship to the major racing series in the 1970s, principally in Formula One but also the CART Indy Car series. Hogan’s death at...
By Tommy Scalera This weekend I had the opportunity to attend two car shows. Both shows were hosted by true automobile enthusiasts. Both shows had amazing and wonderfully unique cars to look at and enjoy. Both shows had food, music and vendors selling interesting...
