SIA Flashback – Pre-War Cobra: 1934 Railton

The comparison that Arch Brown hinted at in the headline of this driveReport that appeared in SIA #86, April 1985 – that between the Railton-Terraplane and the Shelby Cobra – comes close to describing this trans-Atlantic hybrid with its high-performance American power and British body, though the story is rather more complicated than that, as […]

SIA Flashback – Mr. Way’s Wonderful Woodie

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 […]