by Mike Gulett - Creating a rebodied Volkswagen is a popular activity for car people and car companies. It seems like it was always that way from the beginning of Volkswagen. He are German and Austrian cars that set the standard for others to … [Read more...]
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The Rometsch Beeskow Sports Cabriolet and The Denzel 1300 Serien Super
February 8, 2022 By 2 Comments
Electric Vehicles: More Changes to Come
January 31, 2022 By 2 Comments
by Mike Gulett - It is inevitable that the internal combustion engine will soon be replaced with electric motors powered by batteries or maybe some vehicles will use hydrogen fuel cells depending on the application. In addition to this big … [Read more...]
Concept Cars: 1965 Corvette Mako Shark
January 24, 2022 By 8 Comments
Retrospectively, admittedly it was wretched excess but at least two features are on cars today... by Wallace Wyss- It was a coupe, with a fastback side profile but with a "tunnel back" rear window like a Ferrari 250LM with a … [Read more...]
Beautiful Women in Car Advertisements
January 22, 2022 By 7 Comments
by Mike Gulett - Advertisers have used beautiful women to sell just about everything since the beginning of advertising, well actually since before advertising. And it still works today. This is true even if the buyer is a women but it works … [Read more...]
Personalities: Gary Bobileff of Bobileff Motorcar Company
January 19, 2022 By 1 Comment
by Wallace Wyss - When I first met Gary Bobileff back in his bearded youth, he was trying to sell me a sports car. I think it was a Ferrari 500SF or some such, with special custom bodywork but he admitted it drove like "an old truck." This was … [Read more...]
The Nissan Prince R380 – A Winning Race Car
January 15, 2022 By 1 Comment
by Mike Gulett - The Prince R380 was Japan's first purpose built "pure racing car". It was built in 1965 by Prince Motor Company to compete in the Japanese Grand Prix primarily against Porsche (the 904 and the 906). After Prince merged with … [Read more...]
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