The Ford Capri oozed just the kind of image and style that appealed to buyers in late-1960s Europe. More than 200,000 were sold in the first year alone, thanks in no small part to the coupe’s classic long-nose, short-deck styling. But the identity of the stylist responsible for the car’s lines has been an enduring […]
Herb Grasse’s is not a household name among many car guys, though that’s not for a lack of impressive accomplishments over Grasse’s career. A graduate of the Art Center College of Design, he designed and modeled cars for Chrysler, Ford and Nissan, lending his design work to the Challenger, the Australian XD Ford Falcon and […]
Customs were not purely a West Coast phenomenon, as a pair of brothers from Detroit proved. Larry and Mike Alexander, the famed Alexander brothers, began customizing cars out of their father’s garage in the mid-1950s and went on to land enough business customizing cars to quit their day jobs and open a shop of their […]