Hemmings Find of the Day – 1956 Chrysler 300B

Anybody else really digging Chrysler’s recent “Style” commercial showing all the vintage letter cars and other products from Walter P.’s company? This museum-kept 1956 Chrysler 300B may not have appeared in that commercial, but it definitely ranks right up there with the cars that did. From the seller’s description: This 1956 300 B is absolutely […]

Jewel for the black diamonds

A few months ago, we got a glimpse of a sensationally well-detailed 1/25th-scale replica of a day-cab Freightliner assembled, with a ton of scratchbuilt parts, by Kurt McLucas of Ebensburg, Pennsylvania. Back then, Kurt told us he intended to finish the job of turning it into a southwestern Pennsylvania coal hauler by hand-creating a dump […]

Retromobile roundup: About that Squire…

While we here in the Northeast spent all weekend chipping ice dams off our roofs, Retromobile debuted a new, shorter format for France’s best-known and largest indoor old-car event. Fortunately, our friend Kit Foster made the trip and reported on the Squire we wrote about last week (let’s call it artfully preserved…), and so far […]