Streamlining, it’s all the rage

For all the streamliners and teardroppers sketched out, put into clay and prototyped, very few successfully became the car of the future that they claimed to be. But they sure made for excellent copy for the newspapers and mechanics magazines of the day, and David Greenlees recently came across a small treasure trove of streamliners […]

SIA Flashback: Southern Sleds

You know what they say about Southern cars, indestructible by the elements, well kept, etc. This series of images are 45 years old, but they demonstrate that the old saw about good iron from the South has a strong factual grounding.
SIA contributor Nelson Coryell caught these cars in 1965 at Keesler Air Force Base, outside […]

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1953 Studebaker Commander

Did Studebaker make a mistake by not offering a convertible version of the so-called Loewy coupes? Several people seem to have thought so over the years, judging from the number of homebuilt hacksaw convertibles made from the streamlined Studes. The builder of this 1953 Studebaker Commander for sale on Hemmings.com seems to be among that […]