Much like Chrysler’s Town and Country, the Ford Sportsman – introduced for 1946 and discontinued just two years later – is a highly desirable car today, but also one that requires a dump truck-load of skill in woodworking to both restore and maintain properly. Thus, this 1947 Ford Sportsman for sale on Hemmings.com, partway through […]
Bruce Hays’s original plan was to restore a complete, but somewhat worn, 1959 Chevrolet Apache pickup that he’d bought to give to his wife as an anniversary present. Hays was a Desert Storm veteran and a captain in the Wyoming National Guard. He was recalled to duty in Afghanistan, and killed there in 2008. Hays […]
On Wednesday, March 16, the collector-car community lost one of its most colorful characters, Billy Thompson, of White Post Restorations. Billy was well known not only for the fine restorations that his company produced and the many thousands of brake cylinders that they rebuilt, but for his humor, honesty and willingness to do what it […]