On a constant basis, car guys ask me how to get the younger generations involved in restoring, collecting and hopping up old cars, as if today’s youth aren’t interested. They are, and the answer amounts to breaking down the barriers that prevent kids from actually laying their hands on old cars: educational barriers, generational barriers, […]
Ah, we meet again. We last spotted this 1940 Mercury custom by Rick Dore at RM’s Amelia Island auction earlier this year, where it appeared to have been painted a much lighter pearlescent blue-green; perhaps it’s just the lighting that accounts for the darker shade in these photos. Now it’s traveled up the East Coast […]
Not everything that turned out of the pre-war coachbuilders’ shops was some outlandish show car for the ultra-rich. Instead, many times, they were simply called upon to build exactly what somebody of means wanted when the automakers didn’t. Thus is the story behind the 1939 Chrysler Imperial woodie wagon that Bohman and Schwartz built in […]