SIA Flashback – What Shows Up At A GM Car Show?

In latter decades, GM has been oft criticized for being staffed largely with pencil pushers and bean counters, not with real car people, but judging from the GM staffers who showed up to the inaugural vintage car show at the GM Tech Center in June 1985 – as related by Michael Lamm for SIA #91, […]

SIA Flashback – Now and Then: 1965 Versus 1985 Volvo

Piggybacking on McCourt’s recent post on racing the Volvo 745T, let’s take a look at this comparison test from SIA #90, December 1985, in which Arch Brown drove a 1965 Volvo 122S and a 1985 Volvo DL back to back and recorded his impressions. No major surprises – especially considering Brown’s admitted fondness for Swedish […]

SIA Flashback – Saito-San’s Cadillac House

The Cadillac is, of course, an American dream, but it isn’t solely an American dream. Haruo Saito first became enamored with Cadillacs when he spotted a pair on the streets of Tokyo in the mid-1970s and a decade later had built himself quite the collection of 1950s Cadillacs, housed in a specially constructed museum in […]