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Allen Grand from Modesto with his assistant, a local kid named George Lucas (who went into film making).
That company was screwed by the government and big business in the same way that Tucker was. They came up with the concept and did the engineering...
The late Budd "the Kat from AMT" Anderson with El Matador and the Styline T-Bird. I was fortunate toknow himfor a rew yers before his death.
That was run the day I was born!
I think the interior shot is the Villa Riviera built by Barris and later owned by James Darren.
The color photo shows how wrong I was with my bongo guess. The white box looks like a first aid kit. I remember that some show cars had a red...
I think those are bongo drums in the passenger side front corner of the trunk, and the wrenches are box end/open end combination.
I think some of it was when the fuddy-duddy term "station wagon" was replaced by the cool term "longroof'".
Verde, in the days before Photoshop, the photographer had to be aware of such background distractions. There are two pics above your comment that...
There were a few lifting bodies in the program. The opening sequence to The Six Million Dollar Man TV show is actual footage of the crash of the...
Walt Hansgen was killed in a Mark II in the rain at the Le Mans test day. Ken Miles died testing a J Car, the aerodynamically unstable predecessor...
Sorry, I don't know who owns the B.A.T. cars. It seems a natural thing to display them together, though.
The Bertone Aerodynamica Technica (B.A.T.) cars are Alfa Romeos, not Fiats.
post 902 is the chassis for Jack Chrisman's '66 Comet roadster.
I never herd of that book nor the Bob Gregorie comment. But I wonder if it has to do with the fact that the '39 and '41 were both fresh designs...
To me, this thread just illustrates how well styled '39 and '40 Fords were.
Post 1122 is an A.C. Ace, designed in about 1953. When AC lost its engine supplier, Bristol, the car nearly went out of production. Carrol Shelby...
Yeah Frogz. I have over 2000 kits, and I don't even have one! LOL
Frogz, Revell makes a'48 Ford coupe model. There are chopped and stock height top versions.
The Penske car was red at Daytona and blue here at Sebring. These were the first two Penske racing entries ever.
It looks to me like the Chinook is just a home built with a 2E or 2G inspired body. The 2F had one of the original fiberglass Chaparral 2 tubs...
Old Wolf, the '61-'63 Pontiac Tempest, Olds F85, and Buick Special shared their platform with the Corvair. The floor pan was designed to be used...
The reason that BAT is written in capital letters is that it is an acronym for Bertone Aerodynamica Technica. They were Aerodynamic study cars....
A car owner asked a Formula One driver whey he went out of a race. The driver responded "It was electrical failure, Lord Stanley- a wire was...
Stogy- Bing image search says that is Anita Ekberg.
The AMT '57 Chevy came out in '62 or '63, so the model must have been the inspiration for the full-sized car.
Fordors, Roth was at one of the NNL Western Nationals model car shows in the early 90s telling stories of his cars. He didn't mention the Olds...
There was an article in Road & track about the time you took the pic of the Mark IV. The guy used it on the street, and even had air conditioning...
I think that is Shirley Muldowney with a trophy that she won...
I didn't know that there were Starliner Station Wagons...
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