When I recently mentioned all the cars Canada got that we down here in the States didn’t, dave_7 reminded me that in addition to the CMP and various gray-market imports, some parts of Canada also got the Lada Niva, another vehicle that I would place in my garage, given the chance. Dave had, in fact, […]

Received word from Lou Grosso at Early Ford V-8 Sales in Ballston Spa, New York, last week that they are completing their transition to their new facility in Piedmont, South Carolina, between June 15 and July 4. As you know from earlier Hemmings Speedster restoration posts, we have gotten to know Lou and crew quite […]

Though he was at one point described as a “famous industrial artist,” we’ve so far been able to discern little about Lynn Brodton outside of his patent filings, which chart a varied 20-year career in industrial design and included concepts that would have married the past and future of taxis.
In 1933, Brodton, a resident of […]