Photos and the occasional story about cars, trains, boats, and airplanes.
If you are a fan of the great movie Grand Prix (1966, staring James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Yves Montand, and others) you are probably familiar with racing cars similar to the one on the right. This is a BRM P56 race car from 1961. It is one of the …
On the right is a photo of Lewis Hamilton’s 2010 Mercedes MP4 25A racing car with which he won the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal and the Belgium Grand Prix. This is the sort of car that you see racing on the TV (unless you are lucky and rich enough …
Britain seems to be a bit closer to WWII than the US is. That may be an incorrect impression, but, either way, it should be no surprise. There are any number of museums and memorials dedicated to various aspects of the war, and this is one of them. Pictured on …
This Handley Page Hastings is on display at the Newark Air Museum in Nottinghamshire, UK.
Visitors from the US to the UK who elect to drive tend to want to lock themselves into their hotel or B & B room after their first adventure on the roads. It is not that the drivers are nuts, which they aren’t, or even that driving on the opposite …
The Day Peckinpaugh was recently spotted moored at the Lock 6 State Canal Park near Cohoes, NY. This motorship was built in 1921 for the purpose of hauling freight on the New York State Barge Canal, which is what we call the Erie Canal today. The Day Peckinpaugh is no …
One of the more interesting things at the Museum of Flying in Santa Monica is this “airplane”. In fact, this is actually a replica of a Lockheed Vega. It is a movie prop that was made for Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. At first it looks exactly …
One of the things that makes visiting a museum especially interesting is discovering something that you did not expect to see. In this case, I was at the Museum of Flying at the Santa Monica Airport and came across this amazing display. This is the actual desk that Donald Douglas …
