Whither the Elvair?

Lewiston Daily Sun
I have in my files a copy of a newspaper clipping from 1981. It shows a lanky, blurry guy identified as Churchill Hill next to a ‘62 Greenbrier which he’s turned into an Elvis shrine. According to the writeup, it was painted with 65 airbrushed Elvis-themed images: movie bills from all 33 […]

Bunny’s Bugs

We have to thank Paul Jaray for pointing out the appearance of the Gorgoni Via Col Vento in the April 1947 issue of Popular Mechanics; otherwise, we might never have stumbled upon the story of Bunny V. Ronco and his Volkswagen-based homebuilt car.
Ronco, whose given name was Bonaventura, was born in 1903 in Flicksville, Pennsylvania, […]

Hall of Fame, all the way

Go to the RM Auction in Monterey this weekend, register as a bidder and you just might walk away as the new owner of this immortal racing car. This is the Sprint car in which A.J. Foyt won his first major championship, the 1960 USAC Eastern Sprint Car title, driving for A.J. Watson, who built […]