Buy a Bentley, get a coachbuilder free

Freestone & Webb is not a household name in America, even among cognoscenti, but in England, the London-based coachbuilding firm is of some renown. Most of their output–as many as 15 cars a year at their peak–was on Bentley and Rolls-Royce chassis, and they were stalwarts at the London Motor Show, where they won their private […]

Wally Cohn, Europe’s answer to the boys of the 478th

While some boys out in the Pacific decided to rebody their Jeeps using aircraft drop tanks, Wally Cohn came up with a different approach. Much like Brooks Stevens with the Victory Car, Cohn envisioned a somewhat more refined automobile body to go atop the Jeep four-wheel-drive chassis to create a new offering for the post-war […]

I want this so bad it hurts

Our BLB friends spotted this Unimog “Estate” at some unnamed Icelandic museum recently, and one of the commenters identified it as a very early Mercedes-built ‘Mog, but nobody’s yet told us who the coachbuilder was. I would live in it, and, in fact, if I were to bring it to Vermont, my wife may make […]