While looking for something completely unrelated on the Ford Media image site, I came across this photo of at least seven Skyliners coming down Ford’s Dearborn assembly line in 1957 and decided to liberate the photo for any Skyliner fans we have around here. I wonder what reason they had for sending the cars down […]

As anybody familiar with Checkers knows, these were not cars designed to last the ages. They were built to be used up, run hard by taxi drivers and to be replaced as needed. Thus, it’s more than unusual to find actual physical remains of any Checker prior to about 1960, and it’s downright rare to […]

This past weekend, I received an email titled, “Sad Day,” from the hugely talented Mike DiFazio, our former Hemmings Classic Car Auto Art profilee. Mike included an image of his newest piece, a rather touching tribute to Mercury, which was precipitated by the news of Ford’s decision to fold its middle-tier brand after 71 years.
We asked Mike about his history […]