It’s not a sacrilege to affirm that people like George Barris, Ed Roth, Darryl Starbird, Dean Jeffries and few other have been for the U.S. car culture what Pininfarina, Bertone, Boano etc. have been for Europe. Of course back in the early fifties U.S.A. and Europe were two different worlds with different needs so the… Read More Tubs’ car: 1951 Lincoln Lido Coupé by Barris
The kit car era leaved to us another relic of those glorious times: this is the time of the Sterling Nova which came to us from the seventies. For sure you’ve already seen this car with other badges on it, and that’s simply because the body was developed by Automotive Design and Development Ltd which… Read More Aircooled turbo: 1970 Sterling Nova
This 1970 Superbird is said to be a barn find and a great candidate for a restoration. You may like it or not but this rare vehicle is still an icon of the muscle car era. These were equipped with three different engines: a 440 V8 Super Commando with a single barrel of the “Six… Read More Black eyes: 1970 Plymouth Superbird
The history of the american fiberglass cars is still quite obscure as many of these were produced in very few specimens and, nonetheless, the italian sports cars of the same era cast a huge shoadow on these creations. Steel and aluminium were much more expensive than fiberglass and they required skills and time to be… Read More Forgotten: 1955 Californian Sport Special
Ok, maybe this car is not a station wagon anymore as it has been rebuilt welding two ’57 Ford Fairlane front clip in order to build a “palindrome” car, like the VW Beetle published here a little more than two years ago. But, differently from the double-faced VW Beetle, this car was build in 1968… Read More Push-Me-Pull-You/2: 1957 Ford Fairlane Station Wagon
This ’61 Falcon Station wagon two-door is said to be a rare car and, indeed, after some internet searches we’ve found very few specimens for sale around. The seller says that this car has been completely restored after having been parked for years (since the late ’70, according to the family which sold the car… Read More Rare bird: 1961 Falcon V8 2dr Wagon
For for the uninitiated, the seller of this car is mr. Dennis Collins, friend of Richard Rawlings who is actually the main character of Discovery Channel “Gas Monkey garage” reality series. And we guess that this Apollo GT has been discovered by Rawlings who has some scouts around the country who find cars for him.… Read More Gas Monkey link: 1967 Intermeccanica Apollo GT
That’s not easy to find a true barn find Coupé Deville in the (almost) same shape as when it left the factory, but sometimes it still happens and this blue ’59 proofs that. By the way we never saw this color combo on a ’59: we’ve far away to be Cadillac experts but we’ve seen hundreds… Read More Fifty years long sleep: 1959 Cadillac Coupé Deville
Most people for sure don’t know what car is this: basically that’s the attempt to build a sports car by Earl “Madman” Muntz, an American businessman and engineer who sold and promoted cars and consumer electronics in the United States from the 1930s until his death in 1987. Few of these cars were produced as Muntz realized that he… Read More The Arizona girl: 1951 Muntz Jet
What we have here is, like the other car already published, one of the many kit car experiments based on the reliable VW Beetle chassis. Differently from the other one, this is a Coupé GT. Differently from the Vokaro which we ave never seen, the Bradley was quite a successful kit car in the USA, indeed… Read More Inspected, registered, driven: 1975 Bradley GT II
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