Found: Front-drive Fifties mystery

So what does everybody make of this? We recently heard from George Albright of Ocala, Florida, who has sent us photos of some of the unusual cars he’s bought in the past, and who just recently bought this, well, vehicle, with only the vaguest idea of what it is. Supposedly, it was built in about […]

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1976 Buick Estate Wagon

Clamshell! Fins! Roof rack! Rally-type wheels! I probably shouldn’t forward this 1976 Buick Estate Wagon to Litwin, because he’ll go raid his savings account and drag me on a road trip to California to buy it. Then again, maybe it’s high time I got out of Vermont for a few days… From the seller’s description: […]

SIA Flashback – The Game of the Name

On the one hand, Bob Tomaine’s story on the naming of cars, engines, transmissions, options and whatnot from SIA #88, August 1985, can be regarded as little more than a list of neat product names from the 1950s, little to get excited about. On the other hand, while cruising through it, you start to realize […]