Exit Peugeot
Last summer, I posted a bit one of my favorite mechanical poems, The Young Aviator. In Part II of our extended mechanical poetry series, we present Exit Peugeot, a very dark rumination on their closing...
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Editor’s note: Hemmings Classic Car reader Dave Brinson of Huntsville, Texas, recently sent us a poem immortalizing his old 1950 Ford in words that we thought would resonate with the rest of our...
View ArticleThe Spirit of Transportation
In 1920, Eugene Clark, President of the Clark Equipment Company, was concerned that Americans looked only at the practical aspects of automobiles, and not their societal and cultural significance. He...
View ArticleA worker’s ode to a people’s car
While re-reading my copy of Dante Giacosa’s wonderful memoir Forty Years of Design with Fiat, looking for material for the buyer’s guide to the Fiat 600 I was writing for the April issue of Sports...
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