You think the Comanches just happened to learn that warrior thing when the Europeans showed up? North American "natives" (I prefer the term "Siberian American") were no strangers to genocidal warfare and slavery, having practiced those things themselves since their arrival on the continent, coming over the land bridge…

Raph,

Nevertheless, Bobby Joe Jr. managed to spend most of his life as a free man; he still operates the Oil Palace, where he regularly welcomes notable conservatives like Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin.

"exhaust steam"?

Andy Granatelli's asymmetrical #40 STP Turbine Car from 1967. Parnelli Jones almost won the Indy 500 with it. Then USAC effectively banned it by reducing the allowable air intake area.

David Buick's "valve in head" engine. Surprising that it took till after WWII to become dominant, but I don't know if there's even a single company today outside of the lawnmower industry that isn't using a OHV setup.

Here is the Wankel rotary the Pacer was originally going to use, the GM Rotary. As you can see, it was production ready, GM killed the program because of emissions and mileage issues, but it was ready to go. This particular motor is in the Ypsilanti Automotive Heritage Museum - the GM Wankel was developed at GM's…

Neil Nathanson does some great work in 3D. He often works for Mercedes-Benz. The pic is in cross-eyed stereo format.

My dad moved from Brooklyn to Detroit long before it was hip.

The flathead Ford V8 succeeded despite Henry Ford. He had some, ahem, unusual ideas, like not liking oil pumps, water pumps, engineers and accountants. He turned to the V8 layout only after wasting money trying to develop his X8 engine.

Another win, this time at the hands of now four time Indianapolis 500 winning driver AJ Foyt and legendary designer, builder and driver of AAR racing cars Dan Gurney (who would go on to win the Belgian GP at Spa-Francorchamps in his self-designed, self-built, self-run, self-driven AAR Eagle the very next week).

No video of it as far as I know but Israel Air Force pilot Tzvi Nedivi landed his F-15 with one wing after a midair collision with another plane.

It seems to me that the only people who use the phrase "patent troll" are people who have never gotten a patent.

Thanks for saving me from having to post those two cars. Tom Matano, who designed the first generation Miata, has been open about how the Miata is a copy of the Elan. BTW, the Toyota 2000GT is pretty much a six cylinder version of the Elan under the skin, down to Chapman struts in back.

Patchwork leather would have made a better statement.

Just one question. During the Cold War, did everybody absolutely lose their minds?

I have never, ever, EVER seen Detroit's downfall attributed to a combination of the erosion of a tax base and white flight

If you bother to read the reviews of GM products at TTAC, you'll find that many of them are positive.

Saying that Baruth is an automotive journalist is like saying the Hemmingway wrote about fishing.

Losing an eye in a Cadillac didn't stop Sammy Davis Jr. from driving them: