Car Spotting: Yesterday’s Hershey!

How many of us would love to stumble across a field of collectible cars like this? Each of them in ready-to-drive condition, no less? The picture came from a friend of mine who snapped it upon arrival at the AACA Hershey meet in 1969. At that time, the majority of the car show and swap […]

An off-the-shelf thermonuclear-powered car, you say? Sign me up!

From coconv on the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool this week, an interesting piece of literature from Paul Lewis‘s Highway Aircraft Corporation of Sidney, Nebraska, the company behind the incredibly odd, but real, 1974 Fascination. Specifically, the document details Highway Aircraft’s sales plan, which seems to have been carefully tailored to avoid getting into any Preston […]

Distress signals?

If I see a parked Corvair, it’s a pretty sure bet I’m going to give it at least a once-over. Something about this 1964 Corvair Monza convertible that I saw on a trailer in the Chocolate Field at Hershey immediately caught my eye: Deliberate funnin’, or just your basic goofup? The one on the other […]