You can’t restore a truck properly without the right tires. Look at anything cast in rubber today and it’ll be a radial, maybe with flotation properties or shaped to fit wheels with offsets that didn’t exist in the pre-Interstate days. One source that can help you get things correct is M.E. Miller Tire, of Wauseon, […]

If you watched the 2009 movie “Whip It” – and if you haven’t, you should – you might remember this red Karmann Ghia. The movie is about a Texas high school student, played by Ellen Page, who discovers roller derby, and, without her parents’ knowledge, creates an alter ego as “Babe Ruthless” on a team […]

In the January 2011 issue of Hemmings Classic Car, which should be hitting mailboxes and newsstands shortly, I reviewed Robert Cunningham’s “Orphan Babies: America’s Forgotten Economy Cars, Volume 2,” an excellent and comprehensive followup to his first volume of research into the sorts of cars that usually got relegated to the one-liner notes and oddity […]