author: tom cotter

... Eric Stanczak, the man who owned the fenced-in yard of old cars a few blocks from where we were at the former Packard plant. He said he was running a little late and asked us to meet him in front of his yard at 11:30 a.m. instead. With ...

... Motorsports, 102 Anthony, Michael, 24-31, 49, 52 Anthony, Sue, 27-28, 30 ... Racing Schools, 118 "Big Foot,” 49, 53 Black Sabbath, 61 Blackhawk Farms, 111 Bland ... Electra 225, 43 Riviera, 147 Butterfield, Paul, 76 Cabo Wabo, 49 Cadillac ...

... Eric Stanczak, the man who owned the fenced-in yard of old cars a few blocks from where we were at the former Packard plant. He said he was running a little late and asked us to meet him in front of his yard at 11:30 a.m. instead. With ...

... plans to ride the bike, owing to the fragility of the frame. I don't plan to fix the frame; I kind of like the bike as is. When we got into this hobby, the trend was to take barn finds and beautiful original-paint bikes and restore them ...

... power, say, a rear-wheel-drive 1953 Cadillac convertible. What gearbox would LEFT: This bursting-at-theseams Pontiac wagon shows the industrial front and rear axles that many American cars have been converted to. Poetic license seems to ...

... horseless carriage could be: basic, no-frills transportation that is well built and reliable. This car was certainly that and more. 22. Traffic was heavy, moving along at only 10 to 15 miles per hour, and the thermometer registered 100 ...

... K & K Insurance NASCAR team, which fielded cars for driver Bobby Isaac. For ... swap meet at Charlotte Motor Speedway a few years ago, and there, on a ... radiator were removed. “But then he got real sick,” Trout says, “and all. after a ...

... Ivo's clean-cut looks, famous smile, and nonstop enthusiasm for life jumped off the pages and into the minds of young men; he was doing what the rest of us dreamed of. In the late 1950s, when the foundering sport of competitive drag ...

... Chuck Berry, The Rolling Stones, and Asleep at the Wheel all later performed the song. The idea for the song came to Troup during a cross-country drive from Pennsylvania to California. Troup wanted to try his hand as a Hollywood ...