Indeed, the classic upright grille styling, which by the mid-1950s had been as dead as a doornail, was missed by Packard customers and salesmen. They kept asking for Packard to bring that little styling cue back to support Packard’s signature tombstone grille flourish. So Dick Teague did just that with the Packard Request, one of […]

So it’s not an entire car, but this 1969 Mini Moke shell does raise some interesting possibilities. Would you put a Mini drivetrain back into it, as was originally meant for it, or would you build something a little wilder with it? From the seller’s description: I have used a Moke shell as a pattern […]

* If you happened to have your eyes burned out of your skulls by the recently unveiled design of the new London double-decker bus, here’s a tonic: The boys at BigLorryBlog recently visited the London Transport Museum, which provides good viewing of the double-deckers of yesteryear. * Over at Junkyard Life, a yearbook photo from […]