My love for the shorty-type cars is not unprecedented, as we see from Ray Scroggins’s article on shortened and lengthened cars from SIA #66, December 1981. Less a rigorous examination of the causes for shortening and lengthening cars, Scroggins’s article is more a stab at a compendium, showcasing some of the various types of cars […]

Did Studebaker make a mistake by not offering a convertible version of the so-called Loewy coupes? Several people seem to have thought so over the years, judging from the number of homebuilt hacksaw convertibles made from the streamlined Studes. The builder of this 1953 Studebaker Commander for sale on Hemmings.com seems to be among that […]

* Jeep’s corporate owners at Chrysler have plastered the Rubicon name all over recent Jeep products, and for good reason – the legendary off-road trail has been a proving ground for Jeeps since the Liddicoat family started crossing it in their Willys MBs in 1946. The Liddicoat family website has more, including photos of that […]