We have to thank Paul Jaray for pointing out the appearance of the Gorgoni Via Col Vento in the April 1947 issue of Popular Mechanics; otherwise, we might never have stumbled upon the story of Bunny V. Ronco and his Volkswagen-based homebuilt car.
Ronco, whose given name was Bonaventura, was born in 1903 in Flicksville, Pennsylvania, […]
A couple months back, when Automodello sent us one of their 1/43rd-scale Griffith Series 200 models to review, they also sent us an original ad, below, for the Griffith, which came from Gene’s Foreign Car Service at 329 South Court Street in Rockford, Illinois. The last time the Google Street View car passed by that […]
A few months ago, buried in a post with other lost dealerships, we presented a license plate and business card for Don-A-Vee Rambler in Bellflower, California, and took a stab at guessing the location of the dealership based on the address on the business card. Looks like we were off by a little bit – […]