I know there’s plenty of old cars hanging out in the Five Boroughs, but Queens is probably one of the last places I’d expect to find this 1947 Packard Clipper in dire need of a little bit of buffing out. With its two-door fastback body style and eight-cylinder engine, this would make one sharp cruiser […]

From last week’s experimental V-5 diesel at the Olds Museum in Lansing, Michigan, we move on to another group of experimental engines at the same museum, though built for a much more different purpose. In SIA #76, August 1983, Dennis Casteele gave us a glimpse of three high-performance Oldsmobile V-8s – a Hemi-headed design, a […]

I’ve always loved the dip in the late 1950s/early 1960s Rambler station wagon roofline. Not sure what purpose it ever served, other than maybe to cut down on glass expenditures at the factory. One of the more recent Ramblers with that roofline to pass through the Hemmings.com classifieds is this 1962 Rambler Classic that appears […]