Earlier this week, when discussing the Lancia Flaminia based Loewy Loraymo, it was inevitable that we mention the custom BMW 507 that preceded it in Loewy’s European trip. The stock 507, however, was the product of a design by Goertz, who also provided BMW with the design for this 1957 BMW 503 that we see […]

* Over on Autoholics, the latest evolution of the CarDomain blog, FuryPaul recently posted photos of his trip to the Owls Head Transportation Museum, where he spotted this Model T modified for railroad track inspection. It’s the cowcatcher that we dig the most. * I thought Fidel owned an Oldsmobile? Motoring Con Brio offered a […]

What exactly led Russell Lee to Cascade, Idaho’s Main Street, camera and color film in hand, in July of 1941? We know that, at the time, he was employed by the Farm Security Administration – the same program that employed Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans and Marion Post Wolcott, among others, to document rural America’s struggles […]