Funny how these things go. The first-generation Subaru Impreza WRX, the rally-homologation sensation that we suspect will be a shoo-in collector favorite in a couple of decades’ time, was barely modeled in small-scale in its own lifetime; only an obscure Hungarian outfit, Metchy, deigned to commit it to tooling. (All of the CM’s rally variants […]

My first thought was that this 1973 Chevrolet Corvette converted into a sport wagon was the product of John Greenwood’s experimentation with the body style, but some quick googling shows that Greenwood’s conversion(s) were meant for the later rubber-bumper third-gen Corvettes. It appears, then, that this one came from an earlier design, possibly by Chuck […]

What struck me the most as I browsed through the selection of more than 120 vintage Chevrolet (and some Oldsmobile and Cadillac) dealership photos that Craig Hover posted to Picasa last month is just how much dealerships changed during that time. The photoset seems to start in about 1961 or 1962, depicting mom-n-pop places, usually […]