by Old Autos | Feb 28, 2019 | Features
Turning 40 is a major milestone, one that your author celebrated a couple of weeks ago. It seems like only yesterday that I turned 30, and my twentieth birthday doesn’t even seem like it was that long ago, but my tenth birthday feels like a distant memory at this...
by Old Autos | Jan 2, 2019 | Features
“When you have a dream, don’t let it slip away from you. Just go and chase your dream and make it become reality.” Jeremy Cassidy May 2, 2018. Part of a school project. When Jeremy was about 12 he found his dream vehicle. He would see it every time he had a trip...
by Old Autos | Nov 29, 2018 | Features
This year marks a milestone in Canadian automotive history. A century ago, Sam McLaughlin, who’d founded his car company by building his version of a Buick in Ontario, was nearing the end of his contract with that brand. The American automaker already owned half of...
by Old Autos | Nov 1, 2018 | Features
The Playboy Motor Car Company of Buffalo, N.Y. should have been a success. It wasn’t, but not for lack of effort on behalf of company founder Lou Horwitz and his partners, engineer Charlie Thomas and car builder Norm Richardson. Horwitz, a Packard dealer, saw the need...
by Old Autos | Sep 27, 2018 | Features
Agassiz school custodian Stephanie Eckstein went into a deep depression after her husband of 34 years died from cancer. “I didn’t think I had a reason to live apart from my two daughters,” she says candidly of her life two years ago. She often drove by a farm where an...
by Old Autos | Aug 30, 2018 | Features
Those majestic, silver, zeppelin-shaped land yachts that are towed from campsites coast to coast, sandy beaches to the Great Plains, Rocky Mountains to forested solitude, could be called the “Monarchs of the Highway.” They are part of a great footloose adventure....
