Hi Gang… For you Atlas / Allied Swallow owners out there… here’s a short one-page article from Motor Magazine in February, 1949.  It’s nice to see how they presented the…

Hi Gang… We’re always looking for the initial press release photos and captions for each of our favorite fiberglass sports cars.  Here’s an early photo and accompanying caption that was…

Hi Gang… Late last year, I found the following comment posted on a story about the McCormack Sports /Custom Car: “I was so excited to find this website.  My dad…

Note:  This is the third in a series of articles that appeared in Car Craft Magazine about the process of designing and building your own fiberglass bodied sports car. Car Craft published one of…

Hi Gang… I wish I could have been there – the last Petersen Motorama of the 1950s. The actual name was “The 6th Annual International Motor Review” but that was…

Hi Gang… Last month we published part 1 of this series – an article by Robert Cumberford that appeared in Car and Driver Magazine in September, 1962.  Click here to…

Hi Gang… That darn ‘ole Erich Schultz.  Every time I tell him about a car that needs “saving”, he’s off faster than a speeding bullet…..down the road….with Michelle and his…

Hi Gang… Alden Jewell has done it again. What an amazing number of car shows he must have visited in the 50s – some of the finest custom car, sports…

Hi Gang… Let’s work backwards in time. Today, good friend Bill Hebal and his wife Kate own a cool special from the 1940s.  That’s right….from 1946 to be exact.  Wouldn’t…

Hi Gang… Small books were published throughout the 1950s by various automotive magazine publishers.  The largest producer of these books was Petersen Publishing – the organization that brought us Motor…

Hi Gang… Great news….we found another Victress employee – and a very special one at that. Barry Tousley joined Victress in late 1953 – the same time as Merrill Powell…

Note:  This is the third in a series of stories about the fiberglass sports cars that appeared in the 1954 Custom Cars book by Motor Trend.  Click here to review each of…

Hi Gang… So far, I’ve found this custom car – the Ogle-Orbed Olds – in two Trend publications.  It first appeared on the cover – in color – along with…

Hi Gang… We’re building a community….a “fiberglass community” that is. Several years ago I had the honor of meeting a gaggle of ‘glass guys from the Northeast Jack Woolridge, Bill…

Note:  This is the second in a series of articles that appeared in Car Craft Magazine about the process of designing and building your own fiberglass bodied sports car. Car Craft published one of…