Certainly one of the more subtle phantom cars in any corner of the collector car hobby would be Thomas Hubbard’s 1932 Franklin V-12 “Super Merrimac” phaeton, a car built according Franklin’s initial plans for a V-12-powered car, one that was significantly smaller than the V-12 Franklin that entered production. Unless you were steeped in Franklin […]

Heyyyyy, Chevrolet never made a Monte Carlo convertible, right? Then why do we see a 1972 Chevrolet Monte Carlo for sale on Hemmings.com with its top down? (As it should be; after all, why build a personal luxury car and not offer it as a droptop?) Reportedly, it’s fairly easy to create phantom Monte convertibles […]

I love phantom cars – that is, cars never built by the factory, but made to look like they could have been built from the factory. Usually, phantom cars are easily assembled by mixing and matching different pieces and trim from within a certain family of cars, but the 1941 Chevrolet Fleetline convertible sedan that […]