Safe but Crashed in the Marketplace Was Malcolm Bricklin a visionary entrepreneur or just a character with oddball ideas and a few million bucks to play with? We’ve never met the man but evidence suggests a mixture of both. On the one hand, it was Malcolm Bricklin who first brought Subaru to North America. But […]
read more >Today, we enjoy the benefits of aerodynamic engineering on a daily basis. Practically everybody understands the effect wind resistance has on the design and efficiency of an automobile, for instance. It may surprise you to learn that in the early days of automobile manufacturing, little attention was paid to the subject. As always, there were […]
read more >Shopping for a vintage Sherman tank or a Jeep? Do you have an interest in the military and militaria. There has always been an active interest in the collection of military vehicles – especially WWII Jeeps and the like, but interest is more acute now. With the cessation of hostilities in 1945 there was a […]
read more >In 1940 if you wanted to buy a Crosley, you went to your local hardware store not a car dealer. Hand over $210, wait a few weeks, and a shiny new Crosley would appear in your driveway. The Crosley was the invention of Powel Crosley Jr. a man famous for radios and refrigerators in the […]
read more >Ford Thunderbirds… for 50 years the bodies may have changed, but the idea and the name has remained faithful to the original. One of the pioneers of the “personal luxury car,” the T-Bird, as it is commonly called, still sets standards for others to follow. To those in the know and especially the legions of […]
read more >The Cord 810/812 is one of the most beautiful production automobiles ever made in America. Designed by Gordon Buehrig, the Cord was technically advanced for its time. It featured front-wheel-drive, hidden pop-up headlights, a 4-speed semi-automatic transmission, and a V-8 built to order by an aircraft engine manufacturer. The Cord’s most distinctive styling feature was […]
read more >When we purchase a car, there are always the extras we choose to splurge on to make our car just a little bit more “ours”. Seat covers, shifters, audio systems, window tint and metal finishes. Modern car enthusiasts can find a way to alter just about anything on their car to make a bold and […]
read more >This, in our opinion, is one of the prettiest Buicks ever made. Okay, we’ll admit to being biased towards the postwar teardrop shapes that GM did so successfully, but the market was, too, having purchased nearly 400,000 of these Buicks in their first year. The 1949 Roadmaster was not just another variation on a theme, […]
read more >1937 Ford, Affordable Elegance Sometimes everyday, inexpensive automobiles turn out to be jewels of design and function. The 1937 Ford was one of those. Created under the supervision of Edsel Ford, it came to life in an era when automobiles were not subjected to design by committee, and thus conceptual purity could be maintained. There […]
read more >The 1988 movie “Tucker: The Man and His Dream“, introduced millions of people to Preston Tucker and his unusual car, the Tucker Torpedo 48. True car collectors and appreciators have always known about this 1948 “Tin Goose” a car called “ahead of its time” by many and now highly sought-after by collectors. Only 51 Tuckers […]
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