SIA Flashback – Mr. Way’s Wonderful Woodie

Not everything that turned out of the pre-war coachbuilders’ shops was some outlandish show car for the ultra-rich. Instead, many times, they were simply called upon to build exactly what somebody of means wanted when the automakers didn’t. Thus is the story behind the 1939 Chrysler Imperial woodie wagon that Bohman and Schwartz built in […]

SIA Flashback – Beetles Beautiful and Bizarre

In moderation, most things are just fine. Take, for instance, the trend of rebodying the Volkswagen Beetle. Once the Beetle became ubiquitous and dirt-cheap, everybody with a chopper gun started to use the Bug as the basis for bringing their notebook-margin doodles to life. Yet there were many refined, restrained and quality-focused coachbuilt Beetles, mostly […]