Following on yesterday’s post about custom cars in the Ford Times, we recently came across two unique Fords which we wanted to learn more about, but found almost nothing. We’ll start with the one above, spotted in an October 1954 Mechanix Illustrated story on sports cars over on Modern Mechanix. The caption tells us it’s […]
Much like the family albums ‘n four-speeds posts that we do here, Nelson Coryell shared some photos of the many cars his family owned while he was growing up for SIA #93, June 1986. As Nelson wrote, the cars were driven as cars were meant to be driven, not as collector cars, so the value […]
Back in the salad days of the Nineties dot-com boom, we eked out a living painting sets for television and movies. Tasks included making many new things look old, which included building a ship set inside a restored WWII-vintage Liberty ship. Why? Glossy new stuff looks phony on film, because glossy new stuff does not […]