My Car Quest

March 28, 2024

Book Review: Developing Chevrolet Pony Car Camaro Concept Cars

Review by Wallace Wyss - Title: Developing Chevrolet Pony Car Camaro Concept Cars Author: Scott Kolecki Publisher: Car Tech Pages: 176 Binding: Soft cover Books on concept cars are the new new thing. True, in the past, car … [Read more...]

How GM Gave Away A Million Dollar Car To The First Guy That Asked…The Two Rotor Corvette

From the My Car Quest Wayback Machine we have another great story by Wallace Wyss from April 2016. Believe it or not. Mike Gulett, Editor by Wallace Wyss - I was working in Detroit at the time. Early ‘70s. General Motors was crazy … [Read more...]

The 1961 Mako Shark I Concept Car: My Memorable Ride…

Reaching into the My Car Quest Wayback Machine I came up with this interesting story from March 2018. I hope you all enjoy it again, or for the first time. Mike Gulett, Editor. by Wallace Wyss - Back in the day, the early 60s, I was a … [Read more...]

The Pontiac Firebird Type K

by Mike Gulett - I have a fondness for the station wagon (or shooting brake or estate car as the British call them) every since I was a kid and spent a lot of time in my parents '64 Mercury Colony Park station wagon. Many really cool concept … [Read more...]

Concept Cars: 1965 Corvette Mako Shark

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...]

Now You See It, Now You Don’t – The 1960 Corvette XP700

Is it really gone? by Wallace Wyss - Back in the ’60s, I used to know a guy in Detroit who was a top-drawer exec for GM—head of styling, in fact. And when he replaced the founder of GM Styling, Mr. Harley Earl, Bill Mitchell had to fill some … [Read more...]