Its first cars were unveiled in a bizarre ceremony in the lobby of the grand Hotel Tulsa, downtown. Potential customers, investors, and other interested parties were invited to the festivities, where the vehicles were christened by a young woman with a bottle of Tulsa-made gasoline. We hope that cigar smoking was discouraged.
Early internal-combustion engines were rudimentary, dangerous, and difficult to operate, and were thus downright risky for the era’s women, clothed in voluminous Edwardian dresses and patriarchal notions of competence. Lucky for them, the Electric Car was invented, and Baker was the best-selling one of the era.
How did that $200,000 Bentley end up at that shady car dealer by the airport, behind razor wire and priced at $29,900? And where is it going? My investigative feature in this month’s Car and Driver uncovers the surprising answers.
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My completely subjective (and snarky) guide to the world’s best annual automotive events, is in this month’s Car and Driver. You can read the online version here, or just buy the magazine on the newsstand, you chintzy bitch.
Chevy’s big, brash, potent, and pragmatic hauler is still gaining converts, 83 years in.
Peter Mullin won the Best of the Best award in its first year in 2015. Now, he’s won again.
I have three stories in this month’s issue of Car and Driver, a compendium celebrating that journal’s 750th issue. Click on the thumbnails above (and then click again) to view a crappy scan, or just buy the magazine on the newsstand, you chintzy bitch.
The innovative Indiana carmaker that turned out to be (mostly) a scam.
Between 1968 and 1970, Datsun would introduce the 510 sedan, the 240Z sports car, and a new-generation compact pickup, all of which became legendary. Their predecessors, the cars you’d find in a Datsun store earlier in the 1960s? Not so much.
