While we’re pretty sure we positively identified Private Lewis van Alstyne’s car as a one-off G.J.G. racer, we haven’t closed the book on the car yet, and Marianne DeAngelis of the New York Guard sent us a couple additional photos of the car, recently discovered in the Elting Library’s Heidgerd-Haviland collection. Marianne writes:
He (Private van […]
Complain all you want about the four-seater and even the four-door Thunderbirds and Ford losing its way with the icon of the 1950s, at least you never saw a Thunderbird station wagon come from the factory.
Sometime in the 1980s, during a deluge of rain, Steve Donohue made a pit stop on the Ohio Turnpike and […]
A few months ago, in the Lost and Found pages of Hemmings Classic Car, we began the hunt for the remaining Mechanix Illustrated Specials, a type of do-it-yourself car that capitalized on the late 1940s/early 1950s sport-special craze, but which combined elements of early kit car building, hot rodding and junkyard digging. Mechanix Illustrated offered […]