* While researching the post from earlier this week on the unearthed Tucker in Brazil, I came across this interesting bit of info: Apparently, Rob Ida – he of the Tucker replica and street-rodding fame – is working on a full-scale version of the Carioca, the project Preston Tucker was working on when he died. […]
* With snow covering half the country, it’s the perfect time for a road trip story, no? Iver Peterson took a 1958 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz most of the way along Route 50 this past summer and wrote about the trip for the New York Times last month. (via) * From canada.com last week came this […]
Back in the export-or-die Fifties, British car companies tried everything they could think of to tap into the prosperous U.S. market. Here, American buyers step right off a BOAC four-prop Douglas DC-7C airliner to find their spanking new Triumph TR3s waiting for them on the tarmac. (How eager was Triumph for cash? We wouldn’t be […]