July 25, 2010

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1967 Mercury Cyclone GT

BlogBy webmin July 25, 2010

The other day, Jeff posted a couple ads, for 1967 and 1968 Mercury Cyclone GTs, and noted how Mercury itself couldn’t seem to decide whether the Cyclone GT was a manly man’s car or a manly woman’s car. One perhaps doesn’t even need to see those ads to figure out that it’s a man who […]

SIA Flashback – Whatever Happened to Baby Pierce?

BlogBy webmin July 25, 2010

We all play the what-if game with automotive history, though perhaps not to the extent Jeff Godshall did in SIA #73, February 1983, when he considered the possibility of a lesser-priced Pierce-Arrow for 1938. Nor was it idle speculation on Jeff’s part: Pierce executives mentioned the possibility, and Jeff envisioned a perfectly probable utilization of […]