Rare Mille Miglia Race Car in Palermo, Italy
Visiting Palermo, Sicily, a few years ago, while I was nosing round the old harbor area, I hit the jackpot stumbling across a specialty garage. Outside that garage, when I told the garage owner that
Category: 1940s
1946 Ford Custom 4×4 Truck in NW Austin
Don’t know anything about this truck although I imagine it rides on a modern truck chassis. I particularly like it because I learned to drive in a 1946 Ford flatbed in Pittsburg, Texas, on the
1940 Cadillac at Green Pastures in S. Austin
I chased this Caddy down the street, ended up at this fine old restaurant transporting a wedding couple going to a celebration.
1948 Triumph 1800 Roadster at Ron Shimek’s Specialty Garage, Austin
Although it doesn’t look like it, this is a post WWII design, with an aluminum body and tubular frame. Its Standard engine’s typical flat head was modified by Harry Weslake and shared with Jaguar (his