Captured Lark The prototype 1953 Buick Skylark hardtop If you liked the one-off GM hardtop based on a sporty ’50s convertible design featured on last week’s blog, here’s another: The unique 1953 Buick Skylark Riviera hardtop. Buick began developing the idea for the special Skylark convertible in 1952. Unlike production Buick converts of the...
After laboring for nearly two years the “PsyClone” is complete. The project consisted of turning an extremely low milage C5 Corvette into a very roadworthy copy of Harley Earl’s dream car swan song – the 1959 Cadillac Cyclone. The new car has been dubbed “PsyClone.” The owner, Charles Keller, wanted it to represent the first version...
Concept cars and prototypes have been found in some pretty crazy and unlikely places — behind barns and in salvage yards, for example — but Bernie Kranz’s recent find of a 1960 Seagrave prototype is a new one.
As usual, tiny Iola, Wis., explodes with energy, variety and lots of great iron…
This Friday — July 11, 2014 — marks the fifth time that Collector Car Appreciation Day is recognized nationally. Why not honor the collector car hobby at the Iola Old Car Show with your friends from Old Cars Weekly? New under the Old Cars Tent this year will be hobby speakers Yvette VanDerBrink, Joe...
For its July 10-13 event, the Iola Old Car Show has prepared a line-up of four-doors that will appeal to everyone.
Three of the most valuable postwar four-doors will be coming to the 2014 Iola Old Car Show in Iola, Wis. — the 1955 Chevrolet Biscayne concept car, the 1955 LaSalle II sedan concept car and the 1966 Duesenberg prototype.
Just in time for Joe Bortz‘s birthday today, Minichamps sent the famous concept car collector this pre-production 1:18 mockup of his 1953 Buick Wildcat dream car. Bortz received this mockup of the forthcoming model so that it could be edited to correct any inaccuracies in the design or features of the original, which rests...
On the 25th anniversary year of Joe Bortz’s rescue of four Motorama concept cars rescued from Warhoops Used Auto & Truck Parts in Sterling Heights, Mich., the legendary salvage yard is marking another milestone in 2013: its sale by the Warholak family, founders of the yard. “I am almost 70 and it was time,”...
The 1950s cars of tomorrow featured ideas with the promise of progress during the jet age. Check out these lesser-known concept cars.
