Founded 1963 by Joe Bortz
Category: Articles on Joe Bortz & the Bortz Auto Collection
Back to the Future by Larry Edsall Autoweek Sept 16 1991
Far Out, Man! By Dan Jedlicka Suntimes
Automotive Archaeology: Chicago Collector Creates Gems From The Junkyard By Roger Hart, Autoweek July 7, 2010
Joe Bortz’s 1966 Duesenberg: Chicago-area native Joe Bortz began collecting cars in 1962 with no idea that he’d become renowned for having possibly the world’s best collection of significant concept cars. More than 40 years later, that’s an honor Bortz wears with pride, but it speaks to only a part of his collection of machinery.…
LaSalle Concept Almost Lost Forever by Ken Amrick, On Solid Ground, Fall 2014
On Solid Ground, Fall 2014
This Car Collection is Truly One of a Kind by AJ Baime, The Wall Street Journal, December 17, 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…
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