Bohman and Schwartz

SIA Flashback – The Topper Buick’s Many Metamorphoses

BlogBy webmin February 20, 2011

Short one this week, but it’s a good one. Before the 1980s, perhaps the most famous TV/film car was the Topper Buick, known both for its appearance in the Cary Grant film as well as for its use by Gilmore as a promotional car. Of course, keeping straight all the various modifications made to it […]

SIA Flashback – Mr. Way’s Wonderful Woodie

BlogBy webmin December 19, 2010

Not everything that turned out of the pre-war coachbuilders’ shops was some outlandish show car for the ultra-rich. Instead, many times, they were simply called upon to build exactly what somebody of means wanted when the automakers didn’t. Thus is the story behind the 1939 Chrysler Imperial woodie wagon that Bohman and Schwartz built in […]