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 was going to be a factual article. I had it all planned out – the history of early auto racing, where the first race was run, who competed, how fast the cars ran, if anyone was able to complete the race. It was going to be factual. But the thing is, the history...
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...
Electric and alternative energy cars are all the rage right now. With the ever-fluctuating price of oil and the instability of the regions where it is most plentiful, as well as the umbrella threat of climate change appearing as smog and pollution before our eyes,...
This month, in 1944, Bertha Benz died. And anyone who loves cars, knows cars, or has ever sat in a car, you should care. Arguably, without Bertha Benz and her spontaneity, resourcefulness and courage, Benz & Cie., later to become Daimler-Benz, might never have...
Alright, I’m sorry I made that terrible title a thing. I love puns more than is advisable. This atrocity is in reference to my fictional characters’ relationships with the cars they drive or would drive, had they been invented yet. I’m a dyed in the wool classic car...
