Found: Front-drive Fifties mystery

So what does everybody make of this? We recently heard from George Albright of Ocala, Florida, who has sent us photos of some of the unusual cars he’s bought in the past, and who just recently bought this, well, vehicle, with only the vaguest idea of what it is. Supposedly, it was built in about […]

Six Degrees of Automotive Separation – Aerocar

Inspired by our Mystery of the Cuban skycar post from earlier this week (handily solved by reader Marilyn Stine – thanks, Marilyn!), we’re going to see what we can do with Aerocar as the subject for this week’s Hemmings Six Degrees of Automotive Separation Challenge.
Unlike the last few weeks, I will be in the office […]

The mystery of the Cuban skycar

On a suggestion from one of our readers, I picked up Richard Schweid’s 2004 book on 1950s cars in Cuba, “Che’s Chevrolet, Fidel’s Oldsmobile: On the Road in Cuba.” While I didn’t find exactly what I was looking for in the book, I did come across a couple other tidbits worth mentioning.
One of them dealt […]