I spent August 4 at the Gilmore Car Museum in Hickory Corners. After the Model A hall I went into the Franklin building, a replica of Ralph Hamlin’s Los Angeles dealership from around 1918. …
At Gilmore: The First Model A and a Campus Full of American Cars I spent August 4 at the Gilmore Car Museum in Hickory Corners, Michigan. The campus is 90 acres of barns, recreated dealerships, and …
The Best Interface for Configuring an AI Gateway Is Another AI I run a self-hosted AI gateway on my home network called OpenClaw . It connects AI models — Claude, Grok, GPT-4o — to messaging channels …
The Great American Car Rush: When Anyone Could Build an Automobile In 1895, there was one American automobile company. By 1900 there were thirty, producing about 2,500 cars. By 1908 there were more …
Cord and Duesenberg: Art and Engineering at Auburn In the 1920s and 1930s, the small city of Auburn, Indiana was home to one of the most remarkable concentrations of automotive ambition in America. …
Studebaker: South Bend’s Automotive Legacy Few American automakers have a story as long — or as surprising — as Studebaker. The company started not with gasoline engines but with horse-drawn …
In my post about Detroit Electric , I spotted “Marian” listed among early automobile manufacturers in a 1914 newspaper. After some digging, that was almost certainly a period misspelling …
If you’ve driven around Kentucky, you’ve seen them — those distinctive green and gold signs posted along roadsides and in front of historic buildings. Kentucky’s historical marker …
In my post about Detroit Electric , I mentioned spotting “Overland” in a 1914 newspaper alongside other early auto manufacturers. The Overland Automobile Company turned out to be one of …