SIA Flashback – Whatever Happened to Baby Pierce?

We all play the what-if game with automotive history, though perhaps not to the extent Jeff Godshall did in SIA #73, February 1983, when he considered the possibility of a lesser-priced Pierce-Arrow for 1938. Nor was it idle speculation on Jeff’s part: Pierce executives mentioned the possibility, and Jeff envisioned a perfectly probable utilization of […]

SIA Flashback – Found! Arno’s Albatross

Reading the story of the troubles Bill Hill had in identifying and researching the Albatross, Peter Arno’s Mercury-chassised one-off swoopster, one can’t help but wonder how differently the search would have turned out if Hill had the Internet at his disposal. Sure, there’s even a Wikipedia page on the Albatross nowadays, but the page doubts […]

SIA Flashback – Used Car Smorgasbord

Bernard Weis should have had a digital camera and a Tumblr account back in the late 1940s when he roamed around the streets of Rochester, looking for all the old cars coming out of the woodwork after years in storage. Fortunately, he had a Brownie and plenty of youthful enthusiasm, and shared the resulting photos […]