Man, I hardly get a smile or a mint on my pillow when I check into a hotel nowadays, let alone a ride to and from said hotel in a coachbuilt Rolls-Royce, but that’s exactly what visitors to the Hotel Schweizerhof in Zürich Interlaken in the 1950s got – a ride in this 1931 Rolls-Royce […]
In moderation, most things are just fine. Take, for instance, the trend of rebodying the Volkswagen Beetle. Once the Beetle became ubiquitous and dirt-cheap, everybody with a chopper gun started to use the Bug as the basis for bringing their notebook-margin doodles to life. Yet there were many refined, restrained and quality-focused coachbuilt Beetles, mostly […]
Earlier this year, we investigated a rather good-looking car that appeared in a photo submitted to us by Greg Steinmayer and discovered that it was a Beutler-bodied Maico 500 Sport prototype that unfortunately never made its way into production. Peter Svilians, who provided the answer, also made mention of a Wendler-bodied Maico 500 Sport prototype […]