Jack’s shoebox Ford

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, […]

SIA Flashback – Mr. Way’s Wonderful Woodie

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 […]