Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, is today know to auto enthusiasts as the home of Road America. Yet as Frank Bruno related in SIA #81, June 1984, before the construction of the track, Elkhart Lake hosted quite the road race, attracting Cunninghams, Jaguars, Alfa Romeos, and all sorts of interesting spectator cars, including at least one Tucker. […]
There’s quite possibly a fascinating treatise to be written on the implications of a mobile banking facility: the use of technology, in this case the automobile, to overcome a societal need; or perhaps the fluidity and expansion of commerce in the early decades of the 20th Century. However, these do nothing to make the idea […]
I love phantom cars – that is, cars never built by the factory, but made to look like they could have been built from the factory. Usually, phantom cars are easily assembled by mixing and matching different pieces and trim from within a certain family of cars, but the 1941 Chevrolet Fleetline convertible sedan that […]