ACD Museum to display radical Di Dia 150

Received a little too late to include in the News Reports page of Hemmings Classic Car, I received word from the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum regarding legendary singer/actor Bobby Darin’s custom-made automobile: the 1960 Di Dia 150.
Also referred to as the Bobby Darin Dream Car, the Di Dia was designed by Andy Di Dia […]

Bunny’s Bugs

We have to thank Paul Jaray for pointing out the appearance of the Gorgoni Via Col Vento in the April 1947 issue of Popular Mechanics; otherwise, we might never have stumbled upon the story of Bunny V. Ronco and his Volkswagen-based homebuilt car.
Ronco, whose given name was Bonaventura, was born in 1903 in Flicksville, Pennsylvania, […]

Gordon v. Gorgoni – postwar streamlined diamonds an ocean apart

The years following World War II provided perhaps the greatest experimentation with the automobile since the first couple decades of the Twentieth Century. In those years the microcar became a European staple, the sports car spread to the United States and drivetrains started to move away from the traditional front-engine, rear-wheel-drive layouts. Also in those […]