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What is it? Can you help?
By Dale LaFollette
Photos courtesy Dale LaFollette and Tom Black
My good friend Tom Black is at it again. (See Tom’s previous project, below) He just purchased the car pictured here in the last couple of months.
I think the motivation was he couldn’t figure out what it was or who did it. Here are a few specifics; perhaps our readers can shed some light on Tom’s find. [Read more…] about And How! You know anything about this?
From the VeloceToday Archives, September, 2010
By Wallace Alfred Wyss
Photos by John Huggins
Long ago, you could go to an Italian coachbuilder and order custom-made bodywork for your Chrysler, or Cadillac or whatever and pay a few thousand bucks and have a car that looked like a million bucks.
There were plenty of workmen and in the early ‘50s, and many factories were still in ruins. Italy was still on the rebound from the war.
By Wallace Wyss
Auction photos courtesy Mecum Auction
You would think that since I have been writing about cars for a half-century or so, I would have heard about this one. But it’s new to me.
John Huggins' 1966 Ghia 450SS.
By Wallace Alfred Wyss
Photos by John Huggins
Long ago, you could go to an Italian carrozzeria and order custom-made bodywork for your Chrysler, or Cadillac or whatever and pay a few thousand bucks and have a car that looked like a million bucks.
[Read more…] about Sugarman’s Express: The Ghia 450SS