Author Archives: John Gunnell

  Ford Motor Co. President of the Americas Joe Hinrichs addressed more than 600 Economic Club of Chicago members, guests and journalists to kickoff the 2014 Chicago Auto Show (www.chicagoautoshow.com) on Feb. 6, 2014. The open-to-the-public new-car event showcased some … More »

  Around 1967 or so, dealers who sold Dodges were known as “The Dodge Boys.” It’s an image that would be politically incorrect today, but it sold cars back then. There were even “Dodge Girls” to sort of put smiles … More »

  People complain that the young people of today don’t like cars the way we did years ago. Alex Carson proves that isn’t always true. We met Alex at the Chicago Auto Show on Feb. 6. He was there with … More »

  The Daytona 500 is called “The Great American Race” but that may have to change as companies like Japanese automaker Toyota buy into the Florida speedway’s new “Daytona Rising” redo. Track officials describe the $400 million project a “reimagining … More »

One day last summer I was driving to see a car collector to do a story and I looked up to see about 50 of the modern Minis coming up the road. As the cars passed me, I noticed that … More »

  A few years back, State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company had a “Garage Makeover” Sweepstakes in which they gave away a $35,000 garage redo by a company called GarageMahals (www.garagemahals.com) that hails from Scottsdale, Ariz. Someone at the insurance … More »

  Ford must be selling Mustangs like hot cakes because there was a bunch of Mustang activity going on at the Chicago Auto Show last week. A word that you hear a lot at these shindigs is “interactive” and what … More »

  Russ Noel of Country Classic Cars LLC (www.countryclassiccars.com) thinks big. Why else would he have 500 vintage cars stuffed into four buildings along the pie-shaped juncture of Route 66 and I-55 in Staunton, Ill.? If you’ve driven past that … More »