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Features from the pages of Old Cars Weekly for the old car hobbyist or collector.

Features Engineering Allies: When Bugatti and Duesenberg took to the skies Bradley Gerke

Yup, it’s a 1972 K5, it’s original, and it makes a pretty sweet camper

Features Car of the Week: 1972 Chevrolet K5 Blazer camper Brian Earnest

Tom Dudley recently replicated the original So. Calif. Plating Co. delivery truck, a famous vehicle based upon a new 1935 Ford phaeton and completed in 1936. Tom’s truck is based upon a 1936 Ford sedan since the original received a ’36 Ford front clip that was heavily modified.

Features Replacing history: Famous lost 1935 Ford custom replicated Old Cars Weekly

ur featured 1968 Fairlane 500, powered by a 428 Cobra Jet, has the “Day 2” look. It is a one-owner car. Glenn Wells, of Longview, Texas, went to the local Pegues-Hurst Ford dealership and checked off several options on the dealer order form which included special-order Oxford Gray paint and the 427 Cobra V-8. That engine was discontinued, thus its replacement was the new 428 CJ. Glenn ordered the car strictly for drag racing. It is one of only 22 Fairlane 500s built with this engine/transmission combination, and of this group, was the only one originally painted in this color.

Features Car of the Week: 1968 Ford Fairlane 500 – 428 Cobra Jet David W. Temple

The Volvo PV544’s resemblance to the concurrent Ford Tudor could very well have helped the import gain a foothold in the United States as the car was quite successful here into the 1960s.

Features The Volvo in Ford’s Clothing Patrick R. Foster

Features Glass Patterns Galore Rotten Rodney Bauman

Pasadena’s Walter M. Murphy Co. was a dominating force for classic customs on the West Coast and beyond. This 1929 Packard Model 645 Phaeton sported a body by Murphy with tasteful elegance and aplomb, just the thing for America’s refined motoring elite who made statements without words or even fancy radiator mascots. Note the thin windshield pillars and relatively light lines of the body.

Features The Magic of Murphy Bodies Gerald Perschbacher

Mark and Diane Besser of Bolivar, Mo., brought their remarkably well-preserved 1930 Cord Cabriolet to the 2025 Iola Car Show.

Features Car of the Week: 1930 Cord Cabriolet Angelo Van Bogart

Of the three Chrysler Falcon concept cars bodied by Ghia in 1955, only this example survives. Owner Joe Bortz believes it was sent to South America before 1957, which saved it from being crushed.

Features Car of the Week: 1955 Chrysler Falcon concept car Angelo Van Bogart

The removable roof panels are tinted gold to represent the “Golden Golden Buehrig Idea” of T-Tops.

Features Car of the Week: Gordon Buehrig’s 1971 Chevrolet Corvette Al Rogers

Hertz advertised that it had 1,000 special Shelby G.T.350 models available to rent, but sources say actual production numbers vary from 999 to 1,001 — close to the advertised figure.

Features Car of the Week: 1966 Shelby Mustang G.T.350-H Al Rogers

The 1979 International Harvester SSV-100 prototype tested the use of composite bodies, and the possibility of mass production of a small 4x4 IH product.

Features Car of the Week: 1979 International Scout SSV-100 Coupe prototype Photos by Al Rogers

Meet the very first winged MoPar! The first noticeable difference is that the impression for the front side marker light in the filler piece is of a slightly different design than production cars.

Features Car of the Week: 1969 Dodge Daytona number one Al Rogers

Just 140-some Speedsters were built in 1935 and 1936 upon the Auburn 851 and 852 chassis.

Features Car of the Week: 1936 Auburn 852 Speedster Angelo Van Bogart

Features Car of the Week: 1970 Ford Mustang Boss 429 Al Rogers

This 1954 rendering by John R. Samsen was created as a proposal for a second-generation two-seat Thunderbird. It later provided the basis for the Cougar 406 coupe.

Features Ford’s first Cougar: Lost to history Phil Skinner