License plate toppers have shown where you’ve been and what you’re passionate about since the good ol’ days. Now you can show that you love “Old Cars” with an old school porcelainized topper made of heavy 18-gage steel. These high-quality, limited edition toppers are built just like they were back in the day for...
Old Cars Weekly voters asked for the 1957 Dual-Ghia in scale form, and Automodello delivered. The newly released 1:43 resin-cast model is the direct result of a Facebook vote among Old Cars Weekly’s followers, and Automodello’s outcome of the winner does not disappoint. The model is built with the same accuracies of all Automodello...
Gary Leidich’s brother and brother-in-law could see through the dust and dirt of the grimy 1963 Chevrolet Impala Sport Coupe sitting in a field in Pierce, Nebraska, in September 2013. The Impala was one of 50 unsold Chevrolets still on MSO that had been collected by Ray Lambrecht, who operated Lambrecht Chevrolet from a...
It’s always fun to delve into the little variation that you find in collector cars. Years ago we enjoyed reading articles that got into the difference between, say, a 1937 and a 1938 Ford or maybe a 1950 and 1951 Mercury. It’s even more fun to explore the differences that could be found...
They say that necessity is the mother of invention and there’s no better place than the world of old car restoration to prove that’s true. Take, for example, the conversation I had today with a man who rebuilds British car transmissions. He told me how he makes shims for his projects out of...
Anyone who has visited Gunner’s Great Garage and met my son Jesse knows that he is a quiet young man. He is also my secret weapon for keeping abreast of changes in the old-car marketplace. You see, Jesse spends a lot of time reading old car magazines and checking out cars for sale...
There’s a lot to be said for building a hot rod on a ready-to-roll chassis designed to accept specific drive trains and to accommodate high-quality fiberglass bodies. You wind up with an engineered machine that fits together good, works well, eliminates drivability issues and goes together a lot faster than a scratch built...
Though old car fans think of soda blasting as something brand new, it was actually developed by Union Carbide to restore the Statue of Liberty in 1984-1986. Many of us remember Lee Iacocca of Mustang fame getting behind this patriotic project. Soda blasting is non-abrasive and doesn’t warp or damage any surface because...
Today my son Jesse and I went on a bus trip with 54 other car enthusiasts to see a fantastic hot rod collection in Madison, Wis. One of the riders was Dave Sarna — a hot rod builder — who brought along “The World’s Fastest Indian” video for us to watch on the bus....
Steve “Doc” Hopkins. Doc is the owner of Doc’s Harley-Davidson® in Bonduel, Wis. This Harley dealership is like others you’ve seen, but different. It has a bike showroom, an accessories and apparel store and a repair shop. But, how many Harley dealers have a zoo, a muscle car museum and a pirate ship?...
