* We always enjoy hearing about high school auto shop classes taking on restoration projects, like the one at Bettendorf High School in Bettendorf, Iowa, focused on teacher Joe Phillips’s 1928 Buick, a car that his grandfather once owned.
* The New York Times had a brief story this week on the 1929 Los Angeles Auto Show fire that burned every car in that year’s show to a crisp.
* Stefan Marjoram’s back with his Auto Advent car sketch series this year.
* Clessie Cummins may not have been as successful as he imagined at getting his diesel engines under the hoods of race cars or passenger cars, but he did convince the trucking industry to switch from gasoline to diesel engines, thanks in large part to his 1932 cross-country bus trip as highlighted this week by The Old Motor.
* Finally, what the Segway could have used all along – a Vespa appearance kit.