Published on Nov. 23, 2024, 1:57 p.m.

Every gearhead has a sanctuary. Mine is a detached two-car garage, smelling faintly of motor oil, old leather, and the metallic…

Published on Nov. 23, 2024, 1:52 p.m.

It sits on my workbench, a dense, crimson heart of iron, its fifty-five-year operational life finally concluded. It’s a Bell & …

Published on Nov. 23, 2024, 1:48 p.m.

Imagine for a moment that your car had only two throttle positions: idle and wide-open. To navigate city traffic, you’d be lurc…

Published on Nov. 23, 2024, 1:43 p.m.

Mankind has been in a perpetual dance with water since the dawn of civilization. We have built monumental aqueducts to guide it…

Published on Nov. 23, 2024, 1:33 p.m.

In the world of the automotive enthusiast, we worship at the altar of the machine. Our garages are sanctuaries, meticulously or…

Published on Nov. 23, 2024, 8:57 a.m.

There’s a violence to the old stories. A sudden, sharp kick from a hand-crank that could break a man’s wrist, an engine that re…

Published on Nov. 23, 2024, 8:13 a.m.

The internal combustion engine is a marvel of controlled violence, a symphony of fire and steel that propels our world. Yet, it…

Published on Nov. 23, 2024, 8:07 a.m.

In 1859, French physicist Gaston Planté arranged two lead sheets, separated by a rubber strip, and submerged them in a jar of s…

Published on Nov. 23, 2024, 7:52 a.m.

It is a sound that every driver dreads: the turn of a key or the press of a button followed not by the reassuring roar of an en…

Published on Nov. 23, 2024, 6:54 a.m.

In 1859, long before the first automobile engine coughed to life, a French physicist named Gaston Planté submerged two lead pla…