It may not be a surprise that products from the fabled Studebaker Corporation that span the company’s rich automotive history have appeared in the Pebble Beach Concours. They include several class award winners, such as a 1931 Studebaker Special racer (1st, 2016), a...
A publicity tour in 1925 offered promotion of a new car and a revolutionary airplane. By 1925, the combination of producing durable cars offering performance and value along with imaginative marketing helped Hudson Motor Car Company to become America’s third largest...
A police-spec Plymouth Savoy was at the scene of a freak accident in 1964. This scene in 1964 is the aftermath of an event that interrupted the weekend routine within a housing development abutting Reid-Hillview Airport in East San Jose, California. On the afternoon...
A classic television commercial offers an offbeat tribute to a culture of innovation. Shell Oil aired a commercial in 1997 of a speeding Ferrari F310 seemingly being refueled from an aircraft as a component of its then-current campaign entitled “The Future Is In The...
How did an airplane end up on a car dealer’s lot? At the end of World War II, the forecast of an unprecedented demand for personal aircraft by thousands of former military pilots spurred a number of non-aviation businesses to become aircraft distributors in the...
How a Nash Rambler convertible was center stage in a traditional military ceremony. Since ancient times, change of command ceremonies have marked the formal transfer of authority from one leader to another. In the military, time-honored symbolism is integral to the...
