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SIA Flashback – SIA Profile of Brooks Stevens

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Perhaps Richard Langworth’s tendency toward purple prose in this profile of Brooks Stevens in SIA #71, October 1982, is appropriate, given the picture he paints of the legendary designer: cordial, well-mannered, even elegant. The profile is no biography or compendium of Stevens’s designs (for that, turn to Glenn Adamson’s book, “Industrial Strength Design“), rather a […]

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Tagged Brooks Stevens, dream cars, show cars and prototypes, Excalibur J, Howard "Dutch" Darrin, Kaiser, one-offs and homebuilts, packard, replicas, resurrections and kit cars, SIA Flashback  
 

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1983 Bremen Sport Sebring

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“As close to a production car as a VW kit car gets” is how the Bremen Sport Sebring is usually described, being the output of Al Hildebrand, a distributor of the Sterling kit car, who decided he could build it better and did. Most sources say that Hildebrand built something like 1,500 Sebrings starting in […]

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Tagged Bremen, fiberglass cars, Hemmings Find of the Day, replicas, resurrections and kit cars, Sebring, Sterling  
 

Lost and Found overflow – Cords-wagen

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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 […]

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Tagged Cord, fiberglass cars, Lost and Found, replicas, resurrections and kit cars, Volkswagen  
 

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