Quick, what car beat the Corvette to the punch as America’s first modern sports car and at the same time brought down 30 miles to the gallon? Okay, so the picture above gives it away: the 1949-52 Crosley Hot Shot/Super Sports. Too many people overlook the tiny Crosley sports car because of its size or […]
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I’ll return to the normal SIA Flashback custom of progressing through the issues next week, but thought that because I celebrated my birthday last week, I’ll pick an article from the SIA issue closest to my birth, SIA #50, April 1979. It’s interesting to see how things changed so much from SIA #3 to #50 […]
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History is one thing when you’ve read it in a book. It’s another thing when you’re staring it down, as I did the car above last year at the Michael Dingman auction in New Hampshire (where it sold for $220,000, BTW). I hadn’t read this article before the auction, though I probably should have. Regardless, […]
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