Part of the Crosley legend is that Powel Crosley devised an innovative way to sell his cars: Rather than institute a network of dealerships across the country, as every other automaker had, he would sell the cars the same way he sold his radios – through department and appliance stores, many of which already sold […]
While there are plenty of instances of madmen building cars throughout history, to our knowledge, there was only one car built by somebody who considered himself a madman, and this 1953 Muntz Jet, based on a design by Frank Kurtis, is advertised as the next-to-last Jet built. If that’s the case, then it must have […]
The pairing of the automobile and the narrow, teeming, crowded canyons of New York City is endlessly fascinating. The Standard Catalog lists 334 different manufacturers based in New York City (most of which, surely, built no more than one or two cars, if any), but beyond that, the Big Apple has a history of dealerships, […]