Houston Diary–Days 3 & 4: Comparo Fever!

Between the 12-hour days and lack of internet access yesterday, I wasn’t able to post an update from Texas. Well, in the interim I’ve shot 7 cars, six of them in comparos.
First, one caveat: it rained, yesterday (Friday) and today. More yesterday than today, but it resulted in some creative stagings of of cars.

Friday morning, we […]

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1934 Cadillac chassis

Oftentimes when I meet up with my friend (and Hemmings Classic Car columnist) David Schultz for a chat, talk turns to rebodied big-C Classics – that is, closed-car bodywork scrapped in favor of open-car bodywork, V-8 cars placed on V-12 chassis, etc. It’s a giant headache for the people in the Classic Car Club of […]

SIA Flashback – Boston…1941

It’s one thing for somebody with a passing interest in old cars to go around snap-happy on the streets of a particular city, save the photos in a shoebox for 40 years, then trot them out. It’s another thing when Fred Roe aimed his camera on the more significant cars on the streets of Boston […]