Photo by Josie Musico, Lubbock Avalanche-Journal.
* For decades, a 1955 Cadillac Coupe de Ville sat perched atop a building in Lamesa, texas, advertising a now-defunct car museum. This week, it came down after a father-son restoration team bought it, planning to fix all the hailstorm damage and potshots it’s taken.
* The documented oldest Airstream trailer in the world belonged to Dr. Norman Holman, who built his Torpedo from plans in 1935 and traveled the country with it for decades afterward, as we learned this week from Tin Can Tourists.
* The last we saw Johnny Smith’s Enfield electric car in 2012, he had just started the project. Now finished, it’s reportedly running 13-second quarter-miles.
* We heard this week from Mahesh Raman, who shared some photos from this year’s Cartier Concours d’Elegance in New Delhi and shortly afterward spotted some coverage of the event from Nigel Matthews at Tim’s Car Talk.
* Finally, an interesting ProPublica story about the time the Wall Street Journal refused to capitulate to General Motors over an issue called bootlegging. If not thrilling for the journalistic stare-down, it’s at least informative for the dealership practices going on in the mid-1950s.
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