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 […]

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 […]

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 […]