Crank

Mark Webber shows Brad Pitt and Matt Damon around the Jaguar garage at the 2004 Monaco Grand Prix, as part of a tie-in with the film Ocean’s Twelve. Fun fact: This was the same race where Webber’s teammate Christian Klien crashed and lost a…

1913 Ford Model T RoadsterPhoto: GPS 56/Wikimedia CommonsFor most of us, starting our car is (or should be) completely uneventful. You turn a key or press a button, then the engine just starts. However, there was a time when cars had to be…

The electric self-starter enabled women to more easily start a car, thus granting them better mobility.Photo: Hulton Archive (Getty Images)There are a lot of components of cars that we take for granted these days, and the electric…