SIA Flashback – 1952 Meteor: Canada’s Upscale Ford

Canadian cars tend to receive little serious consideration by American classic car writers. For example, to the best of my knowledge, Arch Brown’s article on the 1952 Meteor in SIA #74, April 1983, is the first on a Canadian-specific vehicle in the magazine’s run, 13 years after the magazine started. Fortunately, he gets straight to […]

Glorious Transit: Ford’s Euro trucklet turns 45

Even though we now – finally – get the cool little dealie, we normally wouldn’t pay any attention to the doings of something like the Transit. But over the course of six million vehicles, interesting things happen. Especially when you build the ubiquitous cheap commercial vehicle of the swingin’ Sixties and Seventies in England. See […]

Vintage ‘78 – Shelby, Shelby, Shelby

Who knew that Shelbys were such hot commodities in the late 1970s? I recently went digging through another box of photos submitted for Hemmings Motor News, this time for the July 1978 issue, and found plenty of Shelbys for sale for prices that, well, will seem a little sadistic should I print them. But I’ll […]