The immediate post-war years brought a lot of unique automotive ideas to the forefront, and the major auto and truck manufacturers were far from immune to the trend, as we see from Thomas B. Garrett’s article in SIA #95, October 1986 on the woodie station wagon prototype that Diamond-T built in 1946 and that hasn’t […]

Barrett-Jackson briefly scaled back from their 1,000-plus-car extravaganzas of yore, but they’re back to strength now and my do they get the cars. B-J’s size and market penetration allow them to pull in consignments and consignors that others can’t, which leaves room among the Pro Touring Camaros, celebrity-edition Lamborghinis and Car-Nosaurii for truly interesting cars. […]

If you haven’t yet noticed, scratchbuilders choose their subjects carefully, making sure they’re sufficiently obscure to have never previously been modeled in scale form, yet are not so obscure to be impossible to research. Danny Downs seems to be rather proficient at toeing that line, judging from the vehicles he’s selected for his own scratchbuilding […]