By JEFF MELNYCHUK
Wheelbase Communications

If you sit around long enough with a bunch of car guys, chances are the conversation will eventually steer its way to a certain cream puff that deserves comments such as, “they sure don’t make them like that anymore.”

Maybe it was a sweet 1963 “splitwindow” Corvette, a 440 ’Cuda, or a Shelby Mustang.

But a Chevy Nova? As a vehicle of worship? (more…)

By MALCOLM GUNN
Wheelbase Communications

Although large and perhaps disproportionate by today’s standards, in its day the first Dodge Charger was sleek, smooth and sophisticated. It added sparkle to the mid-sized automobile category while pushing Chrysler Corporation’s design and performance to new levels. (more…)

By MALCOLM GUNN
Wheelbase Communications

Walter P. Chrysler found out the hard way in 1934 how badly controversy can bite you. In fact, there were plenty of teeth marks after he introduced the radically styled Chrysler and DeSoto Airflow coupes and sedans. He broke with established design convention, yes, but at the expense of the bottom line of his company. (more…)

By MALCOLM GUNN
WHEELBASE COMMUNICATIONS

One white stripe. Maybe it was really all about the stripe.

In the mid-1970s not much was bigger, or more recognizable, in the world of prime-time TV than two crime-fighting cops from Los Angeles, Calif., David Starsky and Ken Hutchinson, and their red-and-white striped Ford Gran Torino. (more…)