Retromobile roundup: About that Squire…

While we here in the Northeast spent all weekend chipping ice dams off our roofs, Retromobile debuted a new, shorter format for France’s best-known and largest indoor old-car event. Fortunately, our friend Kit Foster made the trip and reported on the Squire we wrote about last week (let’s call it artfully preserved…), and so far […]

A real, live, short track relic

There are barn finds, and then there’s this, which really did come out of a barn. The barn was hidden away in a real shot-and-a-beer town. And it went under the rafters really rocked, because in that town, people raced stock cars. We found it last weekend, being displayed for the first time in 40 […]

Rare Squire to be shown at Retromobile

The Squire Motor Car Co. began operations in 1935 and went out of business 18 months later, having built just 10 cars. Yet the cars generated enthusiasm far beyond their production numbers, becoming legendary for their delicate beauty, first-rate build quality and purposeful character. The unrestored Squire that Fiskens, the British historic vehicles dealer, plans […]