Showing posts with the label Automobiles

The 1957 Plymouth Belvedere That Was Buried For 50 Years

Feb 10, 2023

The opening of a time capsule is supposed to be an exciting and nostalgic event that gives future generations a chance to peek into the past...

Coal Gas Vehicles

Jun 20, 2022

Contrary to popular belief, vehicles run with natural gas was very common in the early 1900s in America and parts of Europe. However, this g...

Henry Ford’s Soybean Car

Mar 16, 2022

You might blame Henry Ford and his hugely popular T-model for sparking our insatiable passion for cars and the environmental degradation it ...

Wood Gas Vehicles: Cars That Run on Firewood

Feb 14, 2022

In the early 19th century, in addition to coal and natural gas, a new kind of fuel became available to people. It was called synthetic gas (...

Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot And The World’s First Automobile

Dec 14, 2021

The world’s first self-propelled mechanical vehicle, in other words, the world’s first automobile, was built by the largely unknown French i...

Bertha Benz’s Historic Car Ride

Nov 17, 2021

In the early morning hours of August 5, 1888, the 39-year-old Bertha Benz, wife of automobile pioneer Karl Benz, sneaked out of the house, a...

Goodyear’s Illuminated Tires

May 20, 2021

In the late 1930s, a German chemist named Otto Bayer synthesized a new organic polymer called polyurethane. Over the decades polyurethane fo...

Le Jamais Contente: The First Car To Go 100kmph

May 5, 2021

Imagine a metal cylinder less than 4 meters long, on four wheels, with the driver mounted on top like one rides a horse. No seat belts, no r...

The Remote Swedish Town That Drives The Automobile Industry

Apr 1, 2021

Every car goes through a battery of tests before they are rolled out into the market. Some of these tests include driving in extreme conditi...

A Treasure Trove of Antique Car Accidents

Feb 12, 2020

For four decades from 1917 through the late 1950s, Boston Herald-Traveler photographer Leslie Jones covered every major and minor events in...

Abandoned Cars in Hawaii

Dec 5, 2019

In Hawaii, it is easier to dump your old car by the side of the road than have it legally disposed—an attitude that’s causing big headaches ...

The Cavern of Lost Souls

Oct 22, 2019

Just how difficult can it be to tow an old car to the junkyard to be dismantled, crushed and recycled? Too much, if you ask the council of C...

The 40-Foot Studebaker President

Aug 5, 2019

Few companies escaped the Stock Market Crash of 1929 that plunged the United States and much of the western world into an abyss of economic...

Dagen H: The Day Sweden Switched Traffic Sides

Apr 11, 2019

Few traffic jams are as organized and coordinated as the ones that took place nationwide in the morning of September 3, 1967, on the streets...

Gyrobus: The Flywheel-Powered Public Transportation

Feb 5, 2019

Back in the 1940s, Swiss engineers developed a new kind of zero-emission electric bus that used a large spinning flywheel to store energy ra...

Landscaping In The Back Of Japanese Mini Pickup Trucks

Jun 9, 2018

The Japan Federation of Landscape Contractors organizes an annual landscaping contest, where landscaping contractors from around Japan arriv...

The Meteorite That Crashed Into A Car

Jun 4, 2018

The Peekskill meteorite car sitting at a collector’s garage in Peekskill. Photo credit: Ryan Thompson/Flickr On October 9, 1992, a brill...

The Jingle Trucks of Pakistan

Apr 4, 2018

A typical Pakistani truck driver spends more time with his truck than he does with his wife. Which explains why he wants his 10-ton six-whee...

Rolligon: The Vehicle That Makes Running Over Yourself Fun

Mar 7, 2018

The following image appeared on the December 1957 issue of “Mechanix Illustrated”. It shows a woman smiling while being run over by a mammot...

China’s ‘Transit Elevated Bus’ Drives Above Traffic Jams

Aug 4, 2016

China has unveiled a futuristic ‘straddling bus’ that’s capable of driving over other cars stuck in nightmarish traffic jams which has becom...