Cars

During the Depression, anyone with a few bucks could be a car manufacturer. This intriguing automobile was the brainchild of Paul M. Lewis, who first drew up the ...

Postwar America saw its sports car market completely dominated by European manufacturers, even though the ‘Big 3’ all offered various top-shelf sport coupes, they just weren’t nowhere near ...

The seller’s market that existed in the immediate post-war period, leading right up to the banner year of 1955, had virtually evaporated. The coin had flipped, creating a ...

Among car enthusiasts there are plenty of stories about people who stumbled into the collector car hobby by accident. Most of them can be classified as “armchair” hobbyists ...

Nothing says luxury quite like a LeBaron, especially when its badge is affixed to a Packard automobile. From the 1920s through the 1950s, the Packard LeBaron was the ...

The most expensive and the most exquisite-looking car you’ll ever see is the 1907 Rolls-Royce “The Silver Ghost” and here it is in all its glory. The car ...

While the 1955 Hudson Hornet and Wasp are the most attractively styled iteration of the ’52 Nash Airflyte body, they suffer from bloated surfaces which are difficult to ...

1953 was the first year of the “foreign look” for Studebaker. The “Champion” had a 6-cylinder engine and the “Commander” had a V-8, but they both looked alike. ...

The popularity of Beatnik rod’s demonstrated a public interest in hot rods that spilled well beyond the shores of the disgruntled teens. Additionally, those teenagers of the 1950’s ...

With the post—World War II car buying craze, many new car makers entered the market: Kaiser, Tucker, Davis and Playboy to name a few. Playboy attempted to fill ...