From the high plains desk of our satellite office comes this perfectly aged 1948 Studebaker M5 pickup. A comic tragedy of the traditional hot rod phenomenon is when a new fabrication is faked up to look used. While this practice is fine for actual-size movie set versions of the Millennium Falcon, it simply doesn’t add […]
1937 Dodge Do movie producers normally end up with the entire fleet of vehicles used in their film? According to Telegraph, that’s what happened with 51 1931-’48 cars and trucks from the upcoming movie Captain America: The First Avenger. Executive producer Nigel Gostelow, a self-proclaimed “avid petrolhead” has them consigned for the Historics at Brooklands […]
After reading Bob Lichty’s excellent story on the Poulter-designed Snow Cruiser built for Admiral Byrd’s third Antarctic expedition in this past weekend’s SIA Flashback, I went traipsing through the Internets to see if anybody had found the Snow Cruiser in the quarter century since the SIA article. Other than plenty of speculation regarding the fate […]