Hemmings Find of the Day – Total Recall taxi

Longtime readers of the blog might already know that I have a slight obsession over the vehicles from Total Recall, including the Johnnycab taxi. So it comes as no surprise that this six-wheeled Volkswagen-based taxi prop from the movie is my Hemmings Find of the Day. Note that this is not the actual Johnnycab – […]

Found: John Bond’s Byers SR100 and a mystery Byers

As long as I’ve known Geoff Hacker, I’ve been amazed at both his dedication to fiberglass cars from the 1950s and his ability to sniff them out, as if his nose is finely tuned to the odors of half-century-old resin and fiberglass dust. From his trip to Southern California earlier this month, Geoff filed this […]

Bricklin: the Musical

Malcolm Bricklin’s dream of building a gullwing, fiberglass-bodied sports car came to a sorry end, with less than 3,000 built before his company went bankrupt. Now the Bricklin story has become a musical, which will take to the stage in the Canadian province of New Brunswick where the cars were built.
Fredericton Playhouse and Theatre New […]