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Sort of an interesting "birthday" today as this marks the 84th anniversary of the beginning of construction of the Nurburgring circuit. The photo of one of my favorite drivers of all time, Jim Clark, airborne at Nurburgring. Clark won two F-1 championships, and the 1965 Indy 500 in a rear-engined Lotus, the first time a rear-engined car won at Indy, and no front-engined car has won Indy since then.

The Great Race, starring Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, and Natalie Wood  is one of my favorite movies. Little did I realize all this time that there actually was a NY to Paris car race in 1908! It was won by the Thomas Flyer, covering 22,000 miles in 169 days...

One of the places I like to visit online is History.com to check out This Day in History. The Pontiac Firebird Trans Am was introduced on this day in 1969. The Firebird Trans Am was just one in a series of muscle cars released by Pontiac in the 1960s, including the Grand Prix and the GTO...

As those adage goes, those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Consider this bit of an interesting article I ran across this morning about American Motors inthe mid '50's... In 1957, the U.S...

Sometimes with the way the gloom and doom media reports things anymore, it can feel like no progress is being made. But remember when acid raid was front page news? or how bad LA smog really was?..

While I'm sure many of you are celebrating Father's Day today, and I'm certain a large portion of you recalling that today is the 793rd anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta, one of the key moments in automotive history also took place today. This was the day in 1844 that Charles Goodyear got the patent on the vulcanization process. Vulcanization makes rubber harder, much more durable and also more resistant to chemical attack, which is a handy thing for things like the tires on your car...

To know where you're going it helps to know where you've been, so knowing your history is important. Today marks the 99th anniversary of the founding of the Hudson Motor Car Company. Hudson's big moment in history came in 1948 with the introduction of the Monobuilt design...

That ten year stretch of your life from age 8 to 18 is a time when you're really soaking in everything and developing a lot of impressions about the world. Everything is fresh and exciting, and some things leave a lasting impression on you. For me, some of those many things were the Chaparral race cars and Jim Hall...

InsideLine has a story up about their first look at the 2008 Mini Cooper S Clubman. The original Mini  was produced by the British Motor Corporation and its successors from 1959 to 2000 and since I'm old enough to remember all of that time period, the Mini was kind of an automotive icon for all that time. The first time I saw a race that involved only these little cars I was intriguiged by the idea of everyone racing with the same equipment...

On July 7th of this year the results of a worldwide vote were released to reveal a list of the New Seven Wonders of the World.  While I’m not certain that the original seven wonders were no longer interesting, all but one of them no longer exist so I suppose a new list was inevitable. The new seven wonders selection has spawned a movement in many areas and by many interest groups  to find their own version of the seven wonders, as evidenced by the Seven Wonders of Idaho (they forgot the StickMop), and from my neck of the woods, the Seven Wonders of Centre County, PA. Not wanting to be left out, today’s entry marks the official start of my quest to find the Seven Wonders of the Automotive World.  In a newspaper interview in 1895, Thomas Edison said, "The horseless carriage is the coming wonder… It is only a question of a short time when the carriages and trucks in every large city will be run with motors."  How right he was...