At the beginning of the 20th century, the automotive world was still in its early years, and car designers and engineers were overflowing with ideas. Moreover, engineers of that era often took ...

In 1929, the streets of Los Angeles witnessed a unique spectacle: a car propelled by an aircraft engine and propeller. This unusual vehicle, dubbed the “Rumbler,” was the brainchild of American ...

The evolution of the automobile has been one of the more fascinating happenings of the modern era. If you're at all familiar with the history of cars, you know the line from the earliest models to ...

The year is 1909. Marcel Leyat, a young Frenchman with an engineering degree, was putting the finishing touches on his first scratch-built airplane. He began his aviation career crafting biplane wings ...

Have you noticed that carmakers have played the same tune for almost 130 years? ‘Faster, quicker, higher top speed,’ and so on. That might work as a sales hook, good for mesmerizing customers, but in ...

Jeff Lane, 65, the director of the Lane Motor Museum in Nashville, Tenn., on his 1932 Helicron, as told to A.J. Baime. I have been called the “king of weird” and the “patron saint of oddball cars.” ...