The Carrozzeria Bertone-built 262C was Volvo’s international jet-setter in the late 1970s, a high-end luxury coupe that spoke to the affluent personal car market that the once-humble Swedish automaker had in its sights. This car debuted in 1978 in one color combination – Mystic Silver over black – with the highly distinctive 3-inch-lowered, vinyl-wrapped roof and full […]

Yesterday, we noted the passing of Bean Bandits founder Joaquin Arnett. For the past couple of days, we have also been trying to verify the circumstances behind a sad event involving another fabled drag team from California, the Gasser force known as Stone, Woods and Cook. The news was last week’s death, apparently by suicide, of […]

In the year and a half since we first got a glimpse of the Pinto Air Freight Crosley mini-semi (if “semi” is the prefix for half, then would this be a quarter-truck?), we’ve learned that it was built in the 1950s by John Giordano Sr. and Biagio R. Pinto; that it resided in a junkyard […]