Meet Me in St. Louis

An amusing and insightful article from the July 12, 1954 issue of Life Magazine on the 50th anniversary of one of the first cross-county automobile tours in 1904.  NYC to St. Louis.  You couldn't just hop onto the freeway back in those days.

It's a rather long article, but it's worth reading.

Daytona Speed Week....in 1905

From the Feb. 1905 issue of Cycle and Automobile Trade Journal. 

The world's first hybrid automobile goes on show again - 111 years later

The world's first hybrid automobile goes on show again - 111 years later:
from Gizmag.

I made a post the other day about the Porsche-Lohner hybrid from 1902.   As I was going through the last few days of Gizmag, guess what I found?  

Photo from Gizmag

Porsche has created a reproduction of the Porsche-Lohner series hybrid.  No word on when it hits the showrooms. 

You thought gas-electric hybrids were new?

This is from the January, 1902 issue of "The Automobile Review".  And it's from Mercedes and Porsche!

Click through to read all about it.

Before the Model T.....

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