Nostalgia Highway

(January 2, 2014) Here's what the Oldsmobile Division at General Motors wanted, but never got. A production model of the experimental show car, Oldsmobile F-88. It would have been in direct competition with the Chevrolet Corvette.

While debating the matter, GM built three 1954 Olds F-88 show cars, each one slightly different, all with concealed folding tops. They were designed under the direction of famed GM designer Harley Earl.

By Jim Meachen
Abandoned Cars and Trucks

(December 29, 2013) SPENCER, N.C. — Southern Railway's Spencer Shops was a major steam locomotive repair facility between Atlanta and Washington, D.C.; once its largest center. The period of greatest prosperity and productivity for the facility was in the first half of the 20th Century.

(December 18, 2013) Included here are a handful of interesting color pictures, part of a much larger collection of images, by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information taken in the early '40s.

They are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America’s rural and small town populations.

By Al Vinikour 
Abandoned Cars and Trucks

(December 15, 2013) I was fortunate enough to have grown up in those halcyon days of the Muscle Car Era. Every manufacturer had a dog in the hunt.

General Motors had its legendary Pontiac GTO and Chevrolet’s fabled 348 and 409; Chrysler had its Plymouth and Dodge Hemis and Wedges; and Ford had its high-performance Mustangs, Galaxies and Thunderbolts. In those days the cars would be raced on Sunday and used the rest of the week as family transportation. You didn’t trailer them to the drag strip…you drove them there and back.