In the Motor City suburb of Warren, just north of Detroit, there’s a neighborhood where the streets are named after historic automobile marques. Mac’s Motor City Garage pays a visit. Continue reading
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Saturday Morning CarTune: Nowhere To Run
In a performance filmed entirely at the Ford River Rouge Plant, here are Martha Reeves and the Vandellas with their 1965 hit, “Nowhere to Run.” Continue reading
MCG Executive Briefing for April 12, 2013
From Russia with love: In response to global demand, Ford has switched from CKD assembly to full on-site production of its Explorer SUV at the Ford-Sollars plant in Tatarstan. Read this news and more in the Executive Briefing. Continue reading
Bookshelf: Best Damn Garage in Town by Smokey Yunick
Even though it might not be entirely non-fiction, Mac’s Motor City Garage can highly recommend Best Damn Garage in Town. Here’s one of the most entertaining car books you’ll ever read. Continue reading
Video: Introducing the 1963 Studebaker Avanti!
Here’s a great little promotional film introducing the Studebaker Avanti—everything you want to know! Features loads of neat car details and period charm, check it out. Continue reading
The Year in Cars: 1942
In this edition of The Year in Cars we look at 1942, the shortest year in Motor City auto production but an interesting and important one. Continue reading
More early NASCAR: the cars
The early years of NASCAR featured at least one kind of diversity: an astonishing variety of cars on the track. Here’s a big photo essay celebrating the colorful weekly car show that was NASCAR. –Photo above by John Lacko Photography