A Most Important Failure

What are some of the hallmarks of modern Audis? Front wheel drive on larger sedans, odd numbers of cylinders, etc. Well many of those attributes […]

Oleyonics

The traditional indications of spring include flowers, blossoms, milder temperatures, and sunny skies. One of the clear signs of spring missed by those not into […]

A Plethora of Porsches

The annual assemblage of Porsches old and new at Hershey in April is now an international event. You are likely to hear several different languages […]

Gathering 2015

The riding season in the northern climes begins in the spring. However, in the mid-Atlantic region, it officially starts with events. Events like The Gathering […]

Opel Kapitan A

Your eyes do not deceive you….This is a popular German sedan from the 1960s. In 1964 Opel introduced a trio of models on a new […]

Morrie’s Place

There are fewer and fewer shops like Morrie’s. It is a place full of old motorcycles. By choice. It is a place where they work […]

One

5:45am Middlebury, VT The tii starts easily as if it is as glad to see the new day as I am. It is covered in dew. […]

Volo Revisited

3 years ago was the first time we visited the Volo museum. That visit was a rather hurried affair wedged in between obligations. Regardless, it […]

DKW RT250

The DKW RT 250 was a single cylinder model introduced at the Frankfurt motorcycle exhibition in 1951. It was the larger displacement version of the […]

Porsche Targa

In September of 1965 at the Frankfurt Auto Show, Porsche introduced the Targa variation of the 911, but it took over a year for the […]

Montana Monochrome

July. Somewhere near Billings, Montana. 7:15pm. 83 degrees Fahrenheit. It had been a brutally hot day. The brilliant blue sky conspired with the bright yellow orb […]

First Blood

It was baby blue, but it was really mostly oxidized metal brown. It was vintage, hailing from 1969, but it was really mostly old and […]

Express Radex

Express Werke was a turn of the century (19th into 20th) bicycle manufacturer. They soon branched into motor tricycles as well as gasoline and electric […]

Chapman’s Trophys

Although predominately a blog for German Marques, there are certain British brands that have always had a strong appeal. Regular readers will be aware of […]

Stoye

Walter Stoye founded the company that bears his name in Liepzig in 1925. The primary focus was sidecars, but the company did also produce trailers […]

Alpina

Although Alpina was not founded until the 1960s, its roots go back to Typewriters and industrial equipment just like many other German manufacturers. in 1965 […]

Goebel

Karl Goebel began as a producer of bicycle frames in 1937 in Bielefeld. It was bad timing as World War II broke out a few […]

Porsche HLS

A great story about a Porsche which never made it. This was an engineering project to create a racing coupe with a “folding” roof.  We […]