Last summer, Greg Steinmayer sent us a varied lot of photos that he bought at a Dearborn-area garage sale. Among the photos in that lot – aside from the Maico 500 Sport and the people/monsters of Ford’s factories, were these two shots of the Ford GPA, the so-called Seep, taken right outside Ford’s River Rouge […]
One of the requests for the March Military Campaign that I fielded this year came from Myron Vernis, who asked if we’d yet written about the Mighty Mite. I searched our archives to find out that not only had we not written about it, but also that I was frequently confusing the Mighty Mite with […]
In light of the Victory Liner from Santa Fe Trailways, I thought I’d highlight another leviathan pressed into homefront duty to support the troops during World War II. Crismon gives GM’s pre-Futurliner Parade of Progress van a little ink with the above photo, taken in 1941 at Fort Holabird, Maryland. He noted that a Georgia […]