Lee Iacocca, left, with Don Frey and the 1965 Ford Mustang Though Henry Ford II – the Deuce – remained head honcho at Ford Motor Company throughout the 1960s and 1970s, serving as CEO and chairman from 1960 through 1979, the presidency of Ford went through a few different men’s hands during that time. The […]
I’m eagerly awaiting a copy of Grumpy’s Toys The Authorized History of Grumpy Jenkins’ Cars, by Doug Boyce due out next month from Car Tech. I first heard about the book not from the publisher but from a Facebook fan page set up by the book’s author, Boyce. For a few months he’s been posting […]
During the late 1950s, Raymond Loewy made a break from designing cars for Studebaker and went on a European trip, designing cars for Jaguar, BMW, and as we see from the January 1961 issue of Mechanix Illustrated, Lancia as well. The Loraymo, as Loewy called it, was based on a 1959 Lancia Flaminia chassis and […]