Last Christmas Eve, as Dick Weber and his family left mass at St. Agnes Catholic Church, he spotted a 1961 Chevy Bel Air hardtop.
“That’s my car,” he blurted as the car drove around the corner. “That’s just like the car I want.” Read More→
Here’s a little video I put together about my recently acquired 2005 Porsche Boxster. It took the place of my 1979 Intermeccanica Speedster, now in the hands of a friend.
ST. CHARLES, Mo. — When Paul Epperson and a friend looked at Corvairs in a southern Missouri barn he spied a Lotus buried under layers of garage junk, but it wasn’t for sale. Yet. Talk about serendipity.
Epperson, 46, is a former airline pilot who likes to restore cars and he was haunted by the hulk of the Lotus, which he later discovered to be a 1958 Lotus Eleven Series 2 LeMans. Read More→
You would think Bob Holloway’s 1947 Cadillac Series 61 Sedanette is a lovingly restored classic until he turns the key and the Northstar V-8 rumbles to life. That’s when it becomes clear that this is more than just another pretty restoration.
Holloway, of Leawood, is a retired businessman whose company did body and paintwork for over-the-road trucks, fire trucks and trucks of all kinds. He started his business in 1975 and closed it in 2010. Read More→
The garage of Stephen Morris is home to several unusual cars, but the 1963 AC Greyhound, built from 1959 through 1963, and the 1947 Allard M are two that stand out because it is rare to find one, much less both, in the same place. Read More→
Dan Whitney has restored several cars, including two Austin-Healeys, a Jeepster and a couple of Jaguars, but his George Brothers Slush Wagon Special is the first car he’s built from scratch. Read More→
If ever there was a better name for a sports car than Hotshot, I can’t imagine what it would be. The Hotshot was the two-seat sports Crosley, a tiny car made by a company that at one time also sold radios and household appliances. Maybe that’s why the little sedan looks a bit like a toaster with wheels. Read More→
In 1934, Elmar Rains and his family decided to move back to Missouri after living in California for a few years. They came home in a Model T Ford touring car, the same one they drove out west a few years earlier. Read More→
One of the things I love about old photographs is the way they capture the essence of a time period in a way that thousands of words cannot.
That point hit home recently as I looked through a stash of photographs from my late father, Robert Strongman, and uncovered some of his dog-eared and slightly yellow photographs of a sports car race at Chanute Air Force Base just south of Rantoul, Ill. They were published in the September, 1953 issue of Road and Track magazine, and he was paid $4 a picture. Read More→
Austin-Healeys keep punctuating the life of John and Marsha Steele like the Blackfoot River in Norman Maclean’s “A River Runs Through It.”
Steele, who grew up in Scott City, Kan., and now lives in Overland Park, said he became enamored with Healeys because a friend had one when they were at K-State. “It’s still the best-looking car ever,” he said. Read More→
