Image via oldcarbrochures.com You knew this was coming, especially after the Jeep ad insert scan I posted last month. Yes, SUVs have been with us in highway-clogging numbers for a quarter-century now, and the model that many auto historians hold responsible for popularizing the compact SUV is the Jeep Cherokee, known to its fans as […]

If you haven’t yet noticed, scratchbuilders choose their subjects carefully, making sure they’re sufficiently obscure to have never previously been modeled in scale form, yet are not so obscure to be impossible to research. Danny Downs seems to be rather proficient at toeing that line, judging from the vehicles he’s selected for his own scratchbuilding […]

So it’s not an entire car, but this 1969 Mini Moke shell does raise some interesting possibilities. Would you put a Mini drivetrain back into it, as was originally meant for it, or would you build something a little wilder with it? From the seller’s description: I have used a Moke shell as a pattern […]