Our modern throwaway culture only extends back so far, as we see from this four-door 1952 Lincoln Capri for sale on Hemmings.com, a car that somebody thought precious enough to preserve over the years, despite the fact that it’s not particularly rare, iconic or flashy. From the seller’s description: All original in beautiful condition. Original […]
Certainly one of the more subtle phantom cars in any corner of the collector car hobby would be Thomas Hubbard’s 1932 Franklin V-12 “Super Merrimac” phaeton, a car built according Franklin’s initial plans for a V-12-powered car, one that was significantly smaller than the V-12 Franklin that entered production. Unless you were steeped in Franklin […]
* This’ll make you want to go back to college: Stanford University will offer a new program studying the automobile in all its cultural, archaeological, aesthetic, technological and social aspects, starting with a symposium held this past week focusing on a 1933 4-1/4-Litre Bentley. * Over at ForgottenFiberglass, Geoff’s tackling the mystery of this fiberglass-bodied […]