It seems we automotive enthusiasts owe a great debt to Ludwig Prandtl, a Bavarian scientist whose studies into airflow theory became the foundation for what we now know about aerodynamics, drag, and streamlining. The story goes that students of his rather mockingly applied his calculations to bumble bees and ended up declaring them theoretically unable to fly. (Another version is […]
My dad had a gas station in Houston when I was just a knee-high ball of curls, and occasionally, when he would come home at the end of the day, he’d tell me about all the cool cars he had seen. Thing is, I didn’t know them then as what cars they actually were; I knew them as what they […]
Quick: in five seconds, pick the most iconic Volkswagen model ever. Done? Good. Yes, the correct answer is The Beetle. If you said anything else, you’re either fooling yourself by saying GTI or trying to sound clever by throwing out Veyron. Just get out, seriously. Want my point to be cemented? 60 years ago, they just called this car “Volkswagen.” […]
I spent a great deal of time this year dragging myself out of bed in the early morning hours to watch another tumultuous Formula 1 season, and this one was as crazy as ever. One Gran Prix was cancelled, another one was added, and both constructor and driver championships were decided well before the season ended. My respect for the […]
Floyd Bennett Field holds credit as New York City’s first municipal airport. Since it’s opening in 1931, many notable figures have begun or ended a journey here to, inadvertently or not, leave their mark in history. Today, among the people fishing and R.C. car racers sending their toys up the runways, old hangars sit unused and abandoned, echoing a time […]