A Star is Reborn: Restoring the 1955 LaSalle II Roadster
by Terry V Boyce, Collectible Automobile June 2013
With millions at stake, car collectors scour Earth for lost classics by Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press
Excerpt from online article Nov 9, 2018 Like Indiana Jones with a socket wrench, grease-spattered detectives are searching barns, backyards — even the sewers of Paris — hunting for classic cars that vanished into the mists of history. At stake: millions of dollars and some of the 20th Century’s great stories. Joe Bortz’s list is public…
1955 Chevy Biscayne Concept Car, Classic Car Round-Up, January 2010
1955 CHEVROLET BISCAYNE CONCEPT CAR The 1955 Chevrolet Biscayne began life as a super star to showcase the new Chevy 265 cubic inch V-8 engine and was featured at the 1955 Motorama where it wowed the world with its futuristic design and styling cues. It would influence future General Motors design styling cues for years to come. The most obvious is…
LaSalle Concept Almost Lost Forever by Ken Amrick, On Solid Ground, Fall 2014
On Solid Ground, Fall 2014
Wheels: Dream On by Ray Thursby, Robb Report, January 1, 2013
Link to original article. Wheels: Dream On From the late 1940s to the mid 1960s, U.S. automakers built and displayed cars that represented their visions of future designs. The most outrageous were impractical and essentially unbuildable as production vehicles. But that did not matter. Whether they were intended to be powered by gas turbine engines…
1950s Chrysler Concept Cars, by the Auto Editors of Consumer Guide
1950s Chrysler Concept Cars BY THE AUTO EDITORS OF CONSUMER GUIDE 1953 and 1954 Dodge Firearrow Concept Cars The Dodge Firearrow II concept car was a modified 1954 version of the original Firearrow roadster concept. Note the frameless windshield. The Ghia-built 1953 and 1954 Dodge Firearrow concept cars first appeared as a two-seat mockup that rode…
Peek Inside the Hidden, Irreplaceable Concept Car Collection of Joe Bortz, Autoweek June 26, 2018
PEEK INSIDE THE HIDDEN, IRREPLACEABLE CONCEPT CAR COLLECTION OF JOE BORTZ The man and mystery behind this one-of-a-kind collection and one-of-a-kind-cars. June 26, 2018 Joe Bortz first saw General Motors’ Motorama “dream cars” as a boy in Chicago. This was back in the mid-’50s, when GM’s annual cavalcade of futuristic concepts was traversing the country,…
Piece by Piece by Brett Berk, Autoweek, May 21, 2018
Blasts from the Past
