Party memories, all gathered up

The biggest hoedown, bar none, in the world of truck collecting is the annual National Convention and Antique Truck Show organized by the American Truck Historical Society. Each gathering has been followed up by a professionally produced DVD that not only depicts old trucks on a show field, but goes an extra step and captures […]

Won’t you guide my sleigh tonight?

A couple years ago, we linked to the one-horse open sleigh that Bart Stephens Stevens (aka Speedrome) built from discarded and unusable Model T parts. Well, what’s a Christmas sleigh without Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer to lead it? So Bart went back to work last year on a Rudolph, made from four pistons, a bulk […]

Would you buy this truck in diecast form?

We got an unprecedented e-mail inquiry over the weekend from the proprietors of ARMCO Models 56 in Sydney, Australia. Models 56 specializes in small runs, usually 500 copies, of Oz-prototype models. Many of them are Aussie saloon racers, including a wildly modified Corvair once driven by the storied Frank Gardner. They’re now asking you folks […]