It is because of old SIA articles like this one by Frank Bruno in SIA #75, June 1983, that I’ve started to take a stroll through the parking lots at major automotive events I go to. Sure, today I’m not apt to find any Delahayes or Duesenbergs or a Bugatti Type 57, as Frank did […]
The Airline Coupés were arguably the prettiest MGs built in the mid-1930s. It’s believed that just 51 of these streamlined two-seaters, with their flowing fenders, partially integrated spare wheels and sliding sunshine roofs with “cathedral” windows, were built on the P-, N- and prewar T-type chassis chassis with SOHC (OHV in TA) four- and six-cylinder engines. Being coachbuilt […]
We have to thank Paul Jaray for pointing out the appearance of the Gorgoni Via Col Vento in the April 1947 issue of Popular Mechanics; otherwise, we might never have stumbled upon the story of Bunny V. Ronco and his Volkswagen-based homebuilt car.
Ronco, whose given name was Bonaventura, was born in 1903 in Flicksville, Pennsylvania, […]