Rescued from anonymity

We needed to catch our breath after running into this during RM’s Auctions America sale at Auburn last month. The basic car is a 1926 Buick Master, only this one had been fitted when nearly new with custom ambulance bodywork by the Hoover Body Company of York, Pennsylvania. The Buick apparently did the bulk of […]

Six Degrees of Automotive Separation – H.C.S.

Ah, I knew that my trip to Hershey would be productive, especially when it comes to finding a good candidate for the Hemmings Six Degrees of Automotive Separation Challenge. Hanging out in the car corral was this rather nice H.C.S. touring car. Without much information about the car or a seller anywhere near it, it […]

Hershey 2010: Clay’d out

Could somebody with some design experience help me pinpoint exactly what it is about this clay model I spotted at Hershey that makes me question the owner’s assertion that it emerged from the GM Design studios in the 1950s? There’s something just too modern about the way its curves interact with its knife-edge lines, something […]