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And How! You know anything about this?

October 21, 2024 By pete

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?

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The Ghia 450 SS: Sugarman’s Dream

February 14, 2022 By pete

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.

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Mecum offers up a Ghia Chysler

March 12, 2019 By pete

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.

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Sugarman’s Express: The Ghia 450SS

September 15, 2010 By Wally

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

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