Tweedy Pie, take two

One of the most significant sales from this past weekend – from a hot rodder’s perspective – was that of Tweedy Pie at RM‘s event. Tweedy Pie, as many of us know, was a T-bucket originally owned and built by Bob Johnston in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1950s, but made recognizable to the wider collector-car […]

The state of the old car hobby in 1959

It always makes us feel a bit meta when we get a chance to peek back in time and see how people regarded their past 30, 40, 50 years ago. Historians hadn’t had as long to stew about their topics, but on the other hand, they were much more proximate to the things they were […]

Nothing much changes

Put-in-Bay, Ohio, is about the only town of consequence on the North Bass, Middle Bass and South Bass islands north of Sandusky in Lake Erie. Big summer destination, normally reached by ferry, but it’s neat to see how the year-rounders up there adapt to winter and the icing over of the lake. Steve Donohoe pointed […]