The Cisco Kid was a friend of theirs

We were perusing www.philly.com, the website of The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News, when we came across a story about a Cadillac. Not just any Cadillac, either, but a 1980 Fleetwood Brougham sedan about to auctioned off in Wildwood, the real Ground Zero of the Jersey Shore. And a nearly perfect Cadillac that was owned […]

SIA Flashback – Mr. Struck’s Clever Classic Cadillac

This makes two eccentric engineers/inventors who chose Cadillacs as the basis of their rolling laboratory experiments. However, unlike Louie Mattar and his throw-every-gadget-at-it 1947 Cadillac, Henry Struck’s 1930 Cadillac V-16 looks stock from the outside and exhibits a more methodical approach to refining the automobile as we know it. As William Locke related in SIA […]

It’s time for Woodypalooza

We wanted to let all you folks who might be in and around the Charlotte area late this month know that our buddy Tom Cotter is preparing to host the 12th annual edition of his Woody Party on Saturday, September 25, from noon to dark in Davidson, North Carolina. You guys all know Tom, who’s […]