Books: A Time to Turn Pages Instead of Corners
A shelf full of automotive books is available for the holidays, including one that looks inside the garages of well-known rockers and another that celebrates the Corvette.
Archive Gallery: Steve Jobs in the Pages of Popular Science, Over Three Decades
Insanely Great February 1994
As one of America’s greatest innovators, Steve Jobs naturally found his way into the pages of Popular Science with great regularity. From the DIY spirit of Apple’s early days, to his exile and evolution at Next and Pixar, all the way into the modern iEra, we’ve covered Steve and his doings for more than three decades.
Here, we’ve collected a few standout moments in our coverage of Jobs.
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From the My Hemmings pages – Willys MB and KDF 82E ridealongs
Over on the My Hemmings pages, the folks from the Hanson Mechanical Collection shared a couple of ridealong videos for a couple of WWII military vehicles in the collection, one from each side of the conflict. The first, the 1944 KDF 82E, is perhaps the more uncommon of the two – a Beetle on a Kubelwagen chassis, used by the SS during the war and then put on the road as a daily driver in Germany and Austria afterward. The 1944 Willys MB might be more common, but it still sports a British camouflage…
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Archive Gallery: Mail Order Kits, From the Back Pages of PopSci
Space Ranger, December 1977 Believe it or not, this was available as a mail-order DIY kit. Jet powered Space Rangers, kit cars, electronic organs, radio hats, and more — all yours for a low, low price!
Radio hats. DIY jetpacks. Even those of us who never experienced a time when you could purchase science projects for $4.95 and telescope lenses for $1.95 can’t help feeling a twinge of longing looking at these crowded, black-and-white illustrations.
A part of their charm lies in the element of surprise. …
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From the My Hemmings pages: Two unrestored American classics
Over on the My Hemmings pages, Del Bartel of Tulsa, Oklahoma, recently treated us to the excellent story of his father, Dean Bartel, and the 1954 Chevrolet Bel Air that Dean bought new and has kept in unrestored condition in the 58 years since. Del wrote:
My dad bought his 1954 Bel Air in 1954. He was just 28. Being a school teacher, he couldn’t afford to keep trading up to newer cars. The Chevy has been meticulously maintained since new and was out only family car until the mid-70-s. In June, 201…
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From the My Hemmings pages – Mustang to Israel
While Ford apparently exported first-generation Mustangs to Israel, they’re not exactly stacked like cordwood there the way they are here, so the story of how My Hemmings member MAOZ2011 found his is a little more special than most, and worth highlighting here. From his entry on the Mustang:
Since I was a little boy I had played with model cars and I dreamed that I was driving a real Ford Mustang Hard Top 64-65. The years went by. After my Dad passed away in March in 2007, suddenly I realized that…
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From the My Hemmings pages – pigeon-bombed Jaguar
Barn finds are all the craze today as collectors search out more affordable means of entry into the old car hobby, but there’s always some element of risk to them. Could be that mice set up condos inside the car all the years it’s been in storage. Could be that rabid dogs guard the car from prying eyes such as your own. Could be that you hear banjos while talking to the potential seller.
Or it could be that you’d find a car so frosted with pigeon droppings you’re not sure what co…
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Archive Gallery: Classic Car Advertisements from the Pages of PopSci
March 1953 The good, the bad, and the hideous
It’s not often that you flip through a copy of Popular Science without seeing something about cars, be it a feature on eco-friendly automobiles, a compendium on futuristic concept designs, or an article on crackpot DIY vehicles. If you look carefully through older copies of the magazine, you’ll spot charmingly-illustrated advertisements tucked between the aforementioned stories — and in most cases, they serve as a surprising testament to that decade’s cultu…
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Wheels: Buyer-Protection Scam Relies on Fake Edmunds.com Web Pages
The scam uses fabricated mock-ups of Edmunds Web pages to defraud used-car shoppers.
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From the My Hemmings pages – growing up in a Dodge Charger Daytona
Most children of the 1960s and 1970s fondly recall growing up in some sort of station wagon or maybe a four-door sedan. Not so with My Hemmings user RamAirThree, who grew up in Greenfield, Massachusetts, in the back seat of a 1969 Dodge Daytona. As he tells the story:
This is the first car I remember riding in. My family sold it back around 76. It was purchased at Hartwin’s Dodge in Greenfield, Mass. It was “new” off the lot, but with 500 miles in it. I don’t remember the exact y…