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→
The Imperial has been the pinnacle of Chrysler since 1926 when the name was first used for a range-topping car designed to compete with Cadillac and Lincoln.
In 1955 Chrysler spun off the Imperial as its own separate brand, and it was available as a Newport two-door hardtop, a Custom Sedan and as the Crown limousine. The Imperial’s sales numbers were considerably smaller than Cadillac and Lincoln, but the car has accrued an aura, and many enthusiasts covet it.
KUSADASI, Turkey — I’m always tickled when I run across another car enthusiast in a most unlikely place, like Kusadasi, a small town on the western coast of Turkey that is visited almost daily by cruise ships that disgorge passengers to visit nearby Ephesus, an ancient Greek, and later Roman, city. Read More→
Leman Schulz is crazy about his girls. His daughters Marion, Kathryn and Jacquelyn are age 19, 14 and 11, respectively, but his other girl, Audrey, is 54. Audrey is Schulz’s 1957 MGA (named after Audrey Hepburn) and he beams as he talks about how he rescued her from rotting away.
Why did he name his MG after Audrey Hepburn? “I absolutely love movies and My Fair Lady and Breakfast at Tiffany’s were two movies that my oldest daughter Marion and I loved to watch together,” Schulz said. “I always thought of her as an actress that captivated her audiences with her superb performances and alluring personality and over the years she set the mark it when it comes to sophisticated beauty.” Read More→
The 2012 Mercedes-Benz S350 Bluetec is an amazing machine. Isn’t that expected for $92,550?
Price alone is no guarantee of excellence, but the combination of a 31-mile-per-gallon diesel, all-wheel drive and a staggering array of technological features puts this car in the rare air of luxury sedans. Read More→
