In the decades that pre-dated the Second World War car manufacturing was a booming business, but not nearly as booming as we see it today. Just take this simple fact into account: new car models ...

1937: Guy Hart, general manager of the Gibson guitar company, is awarded the first patent for an electric guitar pickup. The instrument that defines popular music in the second half of the 20th ...

Amelia Earhart stands in front of the Lockheed Electra she was trying to fly around the world in 1937. Courtesy NASA 1937: At 8:43 a.m. local time, the Coast Guard cutter Itasca, steaming off Howland ...

Diane and Chuck Rowe brought out their Alloway's Hot Rod Shopbuilt 1937 Chevy coupe from Memphis, Tennessee, to test the competitive waters at the GNRS and see how his coupe stacked up against the ...

On this day in history, Feb. 5, 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced a plan to expand the Supreme Court to as many as 15 justices. While the 32nd U.S. president claimed the plan was to ...

A 1937 Bugatti Type 57S Atalante Coupe that was discovered in a British garage has sold for about $4.4 million at auction. The car was the star attraction of the Bonhams Retromobile auction in Paris ...

As word passed from mouth to mouth and from coast to coast that the factories were coming out early with 1937 models, the usual number and variety of rumors were coined and passed around. This year ...

Folks may remember Will's two-tone brown 1950 Ford sedan, or the two-tone 1962 Impala they built for Billy Morgan (a STREET RODDER feature car and Top 100 winner in 2010), but their latest ride ...