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Excalibur 35X. Rendering via Industrial Strength Design. Up until now, we’d believed that only a couple of attempts had been made to resurrect Bugatti – or, at least, the horse-collar grille – during the 1960s and 1970s: Virgil Exner’s Type 101-based one-off and the pair of Lincoln Continental-based four-door sedans Read more
We’ve indeed seen this part of Portland, Oregon, in a previous carspotting scene from 1962, but thanks to Vintage Portland and the City of Portland Archives, let’s take a look at Harbor Drive circa 1954 looking northeast from the Hawthorne Bridge. Gauging exactly where this stretch of road lies today Read more
Buick’s 1960 styling bridged the gap from the big-fin era of the late 1950s to the smoother lines of the 1960s. As this 1960 Buick Invicta four-door hardtop for sale on Hemmings.com clearly illustrates, the net result was a car that begged to be noticed, particularly in an attention-grabbing two-tone Read more
Excalibur SS prototype. Photos courtesy Alice Preston. The withdrawal of Studebaker from automaking in the mid-1960s didn’t do much good for the community of South Bend, Indiana, and at first it didn’t appear that it would do much good for Brooks Stevens’s concept of building new cars that look old. Read more
Marshall Teague. Photo courtesy Motorsports Hall of Fame of America. One of NASCAR’s earliest superstars anchors the 2014 class of inductees to the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America, which has also made the news for a different reason: its announced plans to move to Daytona International Speedway from its Read more
Corky Coker and Greg Cunningham on the lookout for Backroad Gold. Still image from video below. Possessed with seemingly limitless amount of energy, Corky Coker is a regular sight at significant classic car events, always ready to greet customers with a smile and a handshake. Next week, Coker will don Read more
1979 Dodge Challenger. Photo courtesy of Lov2XLR8.no. The product of a marriage of necessity between the Chrysler Corporation and Japan’s Mitsubishi Motors, the Dodge Challenger and Plymouth Sapporo sought to lure American buyers into Chrysler showrooms with an enticing mix of style, content, value, and to a lesser degree, fuel-efficient Read more
Say the letters MG, and most enthusiasts will immediately conjure up images of top-down motoring in an MGB or MG Midget. A few will remember that MG also built a functional hatchback, the MGB GT, which managed to blend sports car handling with daily driver sensibility (and look good doing Read more
As we’ve seen a few times in this series, if there’s a category of specialty truck bodies, Donald Wood likely had a collection of such photos in his archive. For SIA #172, July 1999, Wood presented his archive of paddy wagon photos, centered mostly on the Teens and Twenties but Read more
Full size vans are great for hauling things, but they’re hardly the go-to vehicle of choice for inclement weather or for any kind of off-roading. Over the years a few firms have looked to address this by converting vans to four-wheel drive, and this lifted 1975 GMC Vandura for sale Read more