Charles Flinchbaugh to present background on coachbuilder Willoughby On Saturday, Feb. 4, 2017, Charles Flinchbaugh will offer a presentation at the Saratoga Automobile Museum in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., on Classic-era coachbuilder Willoughby Co. from 1-2:30 p.m. The presentation is free with regular museum admission. The Willoughby Company of Utica, N.Y., specialized in handcrafting chauffeur-driven...
Automodello 1966 Ford Galaxie 500 model is a 1:24 beauty Automodello has done justice to the beauty and brutality of the 1966 Ford Galaxie 500 7-Litre in its new 1:24-scale model. The beautiful creases and curves of the Coke bottle-shaped Galaxie 500 semi-fastback body are authentically scaled in resin, and all of the trim...
Kenneth “Kenny” Hower Buttolph, the face behind Old Cars Weekly’s “Kenny’s Klunkers” and the man behind the wheel of the publication’s 1954 Chevrolet panel truck, died Dec. 23 in Iola, Wis. He was 78. A gear head in the every sense of the word, Kenny owned hundreds of collector cars: 526, to...
Remember that 1-of-3 1956 Imperial convertible that we discovered and featured in Old Cars Weekly during 2007? Well, it’s now for sale on Craigslist. The owner called us and asked if we knew anyone who would be interested in buying and restoring it. We called a couple folks we knew who would make good...
The Pierce-Arrow Administration Building in North Buffalo, N.Y., will be converted to 107 new apartments according to a Sept. 27 story by The Buffalo News. The project, to be undertaken by the Read Property Group of Brooklyn and former owner Joseph Hecht, is expected to cost $30 million. Located at 1695 Elmwood Avenue, the...
CNBC’s “Jay Leno’s Garage” is back in high gear beginning Wednesday, Nov. 9, at 10 p.m. EST. Season two continues with six new episodes featuring celebrity appearances by Vice President Joe Biden, Jerry Seinfeld, Caitlyn and Kendall Jenner, Kelly Rowland, Patrick Dempsey, Brad Paisley, NASCAR driver Joey Logano and others. The show follows Leno...
The story behind Kenny Buttolph’s unusual 1950 Olds 88 If you ask retired Old Cars Weekly Research Editor Kenny Buttolph what kind of man he’d call himself — and I have — he’d say he’s a Buick man. That surprised me — I had him pegged as an Olds man through and through. If...
Charm and a cool old car can get you out of a bind Retired Old Cars Weekly Research Editor Kenny Buttolph is famous for a lot of things, including his heavy right foot and the sort of natural charm that almost always gets him out of a speeding ticket. I’m just not that lucky,...
1955 Packard Parts Hauling in a 1963 Corvair Retired Old Cars Weekly Research Editor and resident prankster Kenny Buttolph of Iola, Wis., is a man of many stories, most of which revolve around cars. As I comb through his photo file with him, I will share some of his most notable tales here on...
1934 Packard Dietrich & 1937 Talbot-Lago teardrop coupe share ‘Best of Show’ honors Seeing as Detroit is America’s automotive hub, and America is responsible for building a giant percentage of the world’s automobiles, it only makes sense that the Motor City would host a premier show of automobiles. After all, some of the world’s...
