On the one hand, Bob Tomaine’s story on the naming of cars, engines, transmissions, options and whatnot from SIA #88, August 1985, can be regarded as little more than a list of neat product names from the 1950s, little to get excited about. On the other hand, while cruising through it, you start to realize […]

For a while there, it looked like Bill Harrah’s impressive collection of automobiles would be no more. Unbelievably, he made no provisions for the continuation of the collection after his death in 1978, and the new owners entertained the idea of breaking the entire collection apart, scattering it to the four winds. Of course, we […]

We may think of the recent focus on original, unrestored cars as a new development in the collector car world, but that’s just not the case, as we see from Randy Mason’s article on the Kaiser Traveler that he obtained for The Henry Ford Museum in SIA #87, June 1985. After a quick and dirty […]