Lost and Found overflow – Cords-wagen

In the late 1960s, Don Helmrich, his brother Ed and their father Henry took note of the rise of the fiberglass-bodied dune buggy and decided to try their own hand at building a fiberglass body to fit on a Volkswagen tub. But instead of designing yet another Meyers knockoff, they went in a different direction.
“My […]

A little puzzling

Last year, we were loaned some uncategorized photos from the onetime archives of Speed Age magazine, which was published through the 1950s in Washington, D.C.  Here’s one of them. Help us figure out what it is.

Based on some other banquet-type photos in the bunch, we’re speculating that this may have been shot at some sort […]

Success! Cadillac’s OHC V-12 engine photos found

Times have, apparently, changed. When Richard Langworth went looking for photos of the 1960s Cadillac V-12 to prove its existence for the story he wrote on that episode of Cadillac history in Special Interest Autos, he came up empty-handed. But after a few well-placed e-mails, GM’s Heritage Center (which now has one of the engines […]