Text and photos by Wallace Wyss - When you get up in this price range, there’s lot of offerings but it pays to know what suits your needs. I wasn’t buying one, just test driving, but it appears to be almost the ultimate choice between driving, … [Read more...]
Classics: 1950 Daimler DE36 “Green Goddess”
May 28, 2022 By Leave a Comment
by Wallace Wyss - A car this swoopy--this lie-down-on-the-couch and have a martini look--shouldn't have existed in the postwar age. But it did. The Daimler was a rival to Bentley, Rolls and Mercedes. Only seven of this body style were built, and … [Read more...]
1938 International Harvester
May 24, 2022 By 2 Comments
Text and photos by Wallace Wyss - You know those scenes in the old Westerns about the cavalry where some guy--maybe Charleton Heston--is getting stripped of his badges of rank and busted down to private first class? Well, I think when I put … [Read more...]
Design Critique: Touring Superleggera Arese RH95
May 21, 2022 By Leave a Comment
by Wallace Wyss - It has been some years now since the rebirth of Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera. And it's the 95th birthday of the brand so they thought what better way to celebrate than to create a new design, in this case the … [Read more...]
The Alternative Ride: Alvis – A Poor Man’s Bentley?
May 16, 2022 By 9 Comments
by Wallace Wyss - I knew there was an Elvis from Tupelo, Mississippi well before I knew there was an Alvis car from England. In fact I had never seen an Alvis car until I came to California in the late '60s and saw a couple at concours events. I … [Read more...]
A Porsche 356 Mystery Car?
May 14, 2022 By 5 Comments
Is it the Holy Grail of Lost 356 Prototypes or just another VW-based custom? by Wallace Wyss - Back at the beginning of Porsche, you might say all options were open because, at that converted sawmill in Gmund that they were using for … [Read more...]
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