by Wallace Wyss - I remember when the original Humvee came out, we were just getting a war on and it was fashionable to buy a military HumVee, until you found out how slow it was, how wide it was and how uncivilized. Then General Motors came … [Read more...]
Will History Repeat Itself With A Civilian Version of GM’s Infantry Squad Vehicle?
July 2, 2020 By 3 Comments
Malibu: The Car Show Goes On
June 30, 2020 By 9 Comments
by Wallace Wyss - Photographs by Richard Barthlomew - While some businesses in Los Angeles County are being shut down because of spiking infection rate, the sports car people are still continuing to flock to the sea each Sunday for an … [Read more...]
The Chrysler Crossfire – Back Under the Spotlight
June 27, 2020 By 17 Comments
by Wallace Wyss - Back in 2014, Hagerty, in an article on five used cars they thought had classic potential named the Chrysler Crossfire among them. This was a car borne out of the marriage of Daimler and Chrysler, basically a reskin of the … [Read more...]
Concepts That Are Best Not Revived: 1956 Mercury XM Turnpike Cruiser
June 26, 2020 By 8 Comments
by Wallace Wyss - Mercury was a brand that's gone now, it was sort of a ranking-wise, little brother to the Lincoln. In the Fifties they were thought of as a brand that was slightly daring and more upmarket than Ford. Remember the XM … [Read more...]
Concept Cars That Should Have Been Built: 2004 Lincoln Mark X
June 24, 2020 By 4 Comments
by Wallace Wyss - Back in 2004 Ford showed a concept called the Mk X (for 10) which was basically a Lincoln-ized two seater Bird. It was meant to be a true American Luxury cruiser with a power retractable glass hard top. You could call … [Read more...]
Concept Cars That Didn’t Make It : 2006 Chrysler Imperial
June 23, 2020 By 4 Comments
by Wallace Wyss - This show car goes back to 2006. It was sort of a Bentley inspired Imperial bringing back a name that goes back to 1926. At one time Imperials had more status than Continentals, the most glorious moments when they had Ghia body … [Read more...]
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