January is a busy month with regards to auctions, especially in Scottsdale, Arizona. But just after the clean-up crews have called it a day out west, things start to jump to life in the Orlando region of Florida: Mecum Auctions rolls in to Kissimmee for their annual event, which runs from January 26-30. We’ve already […]
When you think of vehicles originating in the Czech Republic, or former Czechoslovakia, you probably think of Škoda. But if Škoda isn’t esoteric enough for you, you may recall the fabric-bodied Velorex three-wheeler. From the “Strange But True” files comes news of the rebirth of the Velorex. While original Velorexes were never imported to the […]
In the January 2011 issue of Hemmings Classic Car, which should be hitting mailboxes and newsstands shortly, I reviewed Robert Cunningham’s “Orphan Babies: America’s Forgotten Economy Cars, Volume 2,” an excellent and comprehensive followup to his first volume of research into the sorts of cars that usually got relegated to the one-liner notes and oddity […]