I just tumble across this website, and it has some really cool articles on classic/retro bike & history.
http://www.cyclingutah.com/oct/oct00/classic.html
http://www.cyclingutah.com/march/march98/mrchcorn.htm
I couldn't find the index for articles, best way to see all articles is to do a search of "classic corner" from their main page, it will all come up.