<VV> Corvair Connoisseurs

[Ray Davis]

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Week of Wednesday, February 11, 2015 Corvair Connoisseurs 
Posted by Jim Donnelly. When you walk into a General Motors dealership today, and then think about the Chevrolet Corvair, you can't help but despair about how GM could have gotten it all so monumentally wrong. At its zenith, GM stood for daring and innovative design, and the Corvair was its pinnacle of audacity. Maybe it's because Ed Cole was the man of the house back when the Corvair seed was germinating, and maybe because deep down, he'd somehow captured a little DNA from another innovator, Hans Ledwinka, who also had a thing for cars with ... Read On>>
       
 
John Z. De LoreanPosted by Jim Donnelly and George Mattar. Seemingly all at once, John Zachary De Lorean was a gifted engineer, a genius who transformed an automotive brand, an A-list celebrity, a gadfly who infuriated his fellow executives, a cutting-edge fashion statement, and a visionary industrialist. Taken together, all those descriptions mean that he was the most enthusiastic of risk-takers. If De Lorean had been into aircraft instead of cars, he might have rivaled Howard Hughes. Others who were active at General Motors during De Lorean's 1960s heyday are quick to cl...Read On>>
  Midweek Matinee: Styling and the Experimental Car, 1964Posted by Ed Heys. All photos are frame grabs from video below. The search for beauty never ends. Thats the appropriate last line of this Ford-centric tribute to the humble yet essential Automotive Stylist, a job title that garners the adoration of the masses (rarely) and scathing critiques of reviewers (regularly). We are encouraged to believe that civilizations entire history of art and technology led to the design of the Mustang and its contemporary concept car stable mates: A wee bit of a stretch, perhaps. Ed...Read On>>
  From the archives: 1928 Franklin AirmanPosted by Tom Comerro. By 1928, Franklin had become a well-known entity and was making the news as Erwin "Cannon Ball" Baker drove an air-cooled Franklin across country in 69 hours and 31 minutes. In fact, after its return, the Franklin had traveled 6,692 miles in 6-1/2 days, and Franklin advertisements boasted it was "the most comfortable mile-a-minute car ever built." This year was also a tumultuous one, as the death of Franklin's chief designer, Frank de Causs, forced owner H.H. Franklin to hire Ray Dietrich as head designer. This was ...Read On>>
  20 commentsBig Blue - 1960 Rambler Six Cross Country SuperPosted by Words and Photography by Daniel Strohl. It just wasn't fair, Rene thought. The sun glistened on the still waters of New Hampshire's Lake Spofford, the cool water and blue skies beckoning to him, yet he sat sweltering in the back seat of his parents' car as they passed right on by the lake on the way to church. To make it worse, there went that blue Rambler station wagon, the one he'd seen around town for a couple years now, heading toward the lake with a yellow rubber raft roped to its roof and a bunch of kids sitting on the open tailgate, already in their s...Read On>>
  Toronto, 1958Posted by Daniel Strohl. While we don't have the whole story behind these two photos that Shorpy recently posted, we can piece together some bits based on what we see here. About the only context provided with the photos is that they were taken in 1958 somewhere in Ontario. Toronto's always a good place to start looking in Ontario, and indeed, there's an Eastville Avenue (as seen in the below photo) in Toronto. Eastville runs into Kingston Road, and the street number in the above photo, 3060, is located just a few blocks up Kingston from th...Read On>>
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