SIA Flashback – Whatever Happened to Baby Pierce?

We all play the what-if game with automotive history, though perhaps not to the extent Jeff Godshall did in SIA #73, February 1983, when he considered the possibility of a lesser-priced Pierce-Arrow for 1938. Nor was it idle speculation on Jeff’s part: Pierce executives mentioned the possibility, and Jeff envisioned a perfectly probable utilization of […]

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1968 Samco-Cord

There’s been a movement afoot recently to legitimize Cord 810/812 replicas such as this 1968 Samco Cord by noting that they weren’t homebuilt hackjob kit cars and were instead assembled in factories as actual production cars. I look at it this way: What automobile built in the 1960s, replica or not, is not considered a […]