Just as the major auto manufacturers had concept cars, so did those various companies such as Hurst that specialized in working with the manufacturers to create low-volume specialty cars. Two of the lesser-known Hurst concepts were the Swinging Bee and Merada, based respectively on the Dart Swinger and the Charger R/T and presented to Dodge […]
The immediate post-war years brought a lot of unique automotive ideas to the forefront, and the major auto and truck manufacturers were far from immune to the trend, as we see from Thomas B. Garrett’s article in SIA #95, October 1986 on the woodie station wagon prototype that Diamond-T built in 1946 and that hasn’t […]
In the personal luxury category, there are no two heavier heavyweights than the four-seater Thunderbird and the Buick Riviera, so it would stand to reason that a comparison between the two is inevitable. Josiah Work took on that task for SIA #94, August 1986, choosing to pit the 1963 versions of each against each other. […]