SIA Flashback – SIA Interview with Donald Healey

Last week’s SIA interview with George Romney, while informative on a couple topics, was really rather dull. The very next interview that SIA published, however, with Donald Healey in SIA #67, February 1982, not only is full of Mr. Healey’s engaging personality, but also ranges over a wider territory, from copying Chrysler engines, to train […]

SIA Flashback – SIA Interview with George Romney

We’ve mentioned before that one of the great values of Special Interest Autos was that the editors and writers of the magazine were able to get their information straight from the men who made the automotive history that we study today. For instance, Arch Brown’s interview with George Romney in SIA #66, December 1981. Though […]

SIA Flashback – The Long and Short of It

My love for the shorty-type cars is not unprecedented, as we see from Ray Scroggins’s article on shortened and lengthened cars from SIA #66, December 1981. Less a rigorous examination of the causes for shortening and lengthening cars, Scroggins’s article is more a stab at a compendium, showcasing some of the various types of cars […]