The Dawn of the Vehicle Microprocessor
In the spring of 1973, a project was initiated to develop a vehicle computer using a microprocessor. The effort was executed at the Electronic Control Systems Department within the GM Engineering Staff. This ECS Department was created in 1971 by Trevor O. Jones under the directive of Edward Cole to advance the utilization of electronics …
From the Horse to Horsepower
As the Civil War was ending in the 1860’s, three men were born who were destined to change the world of transportation as it was known then. Billy Durant, Henry Ford and Ransom Olds were those individuals. Durant would go on to form the largest car company in the world, General Motors; Ford would produce …
How Many Ultralite Concept Vehicles Were There
In 1991, legendary action-adventure film producer, Joel Silver was casually scanning a automotive magazine when he came upon what he thought would be the ideal vehicle for his upcoming project Demolition Man. Set in Los Angeles in 2032, Demolition Man was to star Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes and Sandra Bullock in an action-adventure feature. The …
GM Sunraycer
In November, 1987, the solar powered vehicle GM Sunraycer, designed and built by Detroit-based GM Hughes Electronics, AeroVironment, Inc. and more than a dozen other GM divisions and suppliers, sped to victory in an inaugural 1,950 mile race across the middle of Australia. Nicknamed the Flying Cockroach by Australian journalists (due it its buglike physiognomy), …
See the USA in Your Chevrolet….
Who sang those words in that commercial from the late 50’s early 60’s. was that Doris Day?… Nope, not Doris Day, but close. I got it!..I got it!!…Dinah Shore!.. You got it! I knew it was some hot strawberry blonde from back in the day that had something to do with Burt reynolds..wikipedia didn’t have …
Corvairs – only in Canada you say? pity…
Canadian Corvair owners like to celebrate the fact that about 50,000 Vair’s were built at the GM assembly plant in Oshawa, Ontario from 1960 to 1966. Canadian built cars can usually be found in more countries than the US made cars because GM Canada supplied all the cars destined for European consumers.
Henry Leland
GMnextAs head of Cadillac Motor, Henry Leland demanded the highest standards of precision and quality in all his products. He established the Cadillac School of Applied Mechanics, the industry’s first school to train machinists, technicians and toolmakers, to ensure those standards would be a common value throughout his organization.Celebrating 100 years of GM
Twin Cam Vega
The Cosworth Twin Cam Vega was a limited edition Chevrolet Vega hatchback introduced to the public at the Chicago Automobile Show in February 1975. The heart of the vehicle was the special sixteen valve DOHC cylinder head assembly developed with the assistance of Cosworth of England. The entire engine assembly was some sixty pounds lighter …
Cadillac Beginings
Back in 1902, when Henry Leland took charge of a struggling young company that had been started by Henry Ford and re-named it Cadillac, few people foresaw what the Cadillac name would come to stand for. Acquired by General Motors in 1909, Cadillac immediately became GM’s premier brand.
Chevrolet Beginnings
After leaving GM in 1910, Billy Durant started another new car company in cooperation with the most famous of his former Buick race car drivers, Louis Chevrolet, who had emigrated to the U.S. from Switzerland. With Louis giving his name to the brand and Billy in charge of management and product development, the first Chevrolet …