While some boys out in the Pacific decided to rebody their Jeeps using aircraft drop tanks, Wally Cohn came up with a different approach. Much like Brooks Stevens with the Victory Car, Cohn envisioned a somewhat more refined automobile body to go atop the Jeep four-wheel-drive chassis to create a new offering for the post-war […]

Ogled one of these in the car corral at Hershey last year. Judging from the wheels, it’s definitely not the same one, and this 1967 Datsun Fairlady for sale on Hemmings.com is priced a couple thousand dollars higher, but they’re still nifty to look at. One must wonder about the racing history, though, and why […]

The 1930s seemed to be the last great age of the publicity stunt for automobiles. Radio had already made inroads, and within a decade or two television would become the next great medium to reach the masses, but in the 1930s promoting new cars to a nationwide audience still took some creativity, something that Hudson […]