It’s easy to assume that any stake-bed pickup nowadays uses a homebuilt or aftermarket bed, but look closer at this 1937 Ford 1/2-ton stakebed, and you’ll see that the platform is actually incorporated into the fenders. That’s because, starting that year, Ford did indeed offer stake and platform-bed pickups from the factory, with the platforms […]
It’s one thing if a celebrity once owned a run-of-the-mill car. In such a case, the only thing that differentiates it from a similar car owned by a regular schlub like you or me is the name on a past title. Whoopdedoo. It’s another thing entirely if the celebrity had a car custom built to […]
I’m going to bet that this 1981 Checker Marathon never really saw taxi duty over the last 30 years. As Checker enthusiasts have reminded me several times in the past, Checker would essentially build you a car any way you wanted it, and this wouldn’t be the first civilian-issued Marathon to get taxi stripes. Yet […]