Recall from your Jeep history books that Bantam actually beat Willys to the punch on submitting a design for the Jeep, but never earned the big contract to produce the Jeep. Instead, as a sort of consolation prize, Bantam got to build the trailers that were often towed behind the Willys-built (and Ford-built) Jeeps. This […]
And it begins. Actually, after a Crosley fire truck (not this one) sold for $100,000 at Barrett-Jackson a couple months ago, I expected more Crosley fire trucks to come out of the woodwork than just this 1951 example currently for sale on Hemmings.com, offered for $35,000 out of Los Angeles. From the seller’s description:
1951 Crosley […]
So when Chrysler saw all sorts of sales success with the 300/300C several years ago, I wonder if anybody recalled that the company had toyed with the idea of reintroducing the 300 nameplate a decade prior, even before the 300M came along? Probably not – the Thunderbolt was the big Chrysler show car that year, […]