’61 FORD SHOWROOM SUPERCAR

Posted on September 7, 2025September 7, 2025 by MartynL

Ford hits the street, drag strips, and the high-speed ovals with a slick new ’61 FORD SHOWROOM SUPERCAR, and the most powerful single-four-barrel and tri-power big-blocks yet. By 1961, Henry Ford was coming under pressure internally as well as from dealers to pull out of the restrictive 1957 Automobile Manufacturers Association’s racing ban. Most of Ford’s racing activities, like those at Chrysler and General Motors, were being run out of Dearborn’s “back door,” and successes on the rac...

SOUTH BEND: STUDEBAKER NATIONAL MUSEUM.

Posted on October 31, 2019October 31, 2019 by MartynL

Collin Morgan takes us on a tour of a museum dedicated to one of the American auto industry’s most historical orphan brands. South Bend, IN is located in a geographical region of the Midwest apathetically known as “The Armpit of America”, or “The Rust Belt”. This corridor of cornfields and smokestacks stretches from Chicago to Pittsburgh, and contains once wealthy industrious cities such as Gary, Detroit and Cleveland. It’s also the home of the SOUTH BEND: STUDEBAKER NATIONAL MUSEUM. The automob...