Certainly one of the more subtle phantom cars in any corner of the collector car hobby would be Thomas Hubbard’s 1932 Franklin V-12 “Super Merrimac” phaeton, a car built according Franklin’s initial plans for a V-12-powered car, one that was significantly smaller than the V-12 Franklin that entered production. Unless you were steeped in Franklin […]

Now this is tailgating. At least the “tail” part of it. The Ariel Corporation of Mount Vernon, Ohio, commissioned Kentucky Trailers in 2008 to create this lovely polished trailer for use at trade show. It harks back to the days when federal length and weight restrictions limited most over-the-road rigs to a single axle on […]

* This’ll make you want to go back to college: Stanford University will offer a new program studying the automobile in all its cultural, archaeological, aesthetic, technological and social aspects, starting with a symposium held this past week focusing on a 1933 4-1/4-Litre Bentley. * Over at ForgottenFiberglass, Geoff’s tackling the mystery of this fiberglass-bodied […]