Photos courtesy carsindepth.com It’s a rare non-1930s car that wins the Detroit Autorama’s Don Ridler Memorial Award; in the last 20 years, just four cars from other decades have taken the Ridler, and none of them have been 1950s cars. But with three of the eight finalists for the award hailing from the doo-wop decade […]
* The announcement of the Springfield Vintage Grand Prix earlier this week neatly coincided with a post on The Chicane on the Fred Wacker Allard J2 that competed in the 1952 Watkins Glen road races and contributed to the end of organized road racing in the United States. * If you aren’t checking out the […]
I first met Paul Howard in, I think, 2005, when he and a couple other hot rodders stopped by Hemmings HQ on their way back from the Rolling Bones open house to his house in Massachusetts. He noted me ogling his Model A with a flathead V-8, sitting tall, black, and fenderless, clean and straight, […]