Short one this week. Were this penned by anybody other than Bernie Weis, I’d have taken this article in SIA #71, October 1982, about the proposed resurrection of the Pierce-Arrow as a joke, an April Fool’s gag. Instead, Weis related the story of W.D. Thompson, who very earnestly intended to revolutionize the automotive industry single-handedly […]
* Earlier this week, Ryan of the Jalopy Journal posted the above photo he bought down Mexico way of a very unusual hybrid of Cadillac, Lincoln and aircraft parts. It didn’t take much time at all for the H.A.M.B.sters to id the cockpit (Consolidated-Vultee BT-13 trainer) and post more photos of the Cadillinc, including some […]
* Bob Gurr previously sent us several of his photos from old L.A. area used car dealerships, so we were pleased to see Dean’s Garage’s quick profile on Gurr, the designer and Disney Imagineer, this week. Some of those designs look like something somebody with metalshaping talent could bring to life rather easily.
* In the […]