Crosley Factory Circa 1945

Inspiration…It was a Monday morning and I was off to play golf with a group of my friends. Car talk turned to me mentioning an obscure brand of cars the Crosley and my friend Joe replying with fond memories of he and his brother both iron workers traveling to work in his brothers Crosley and its horrible fate, being crushed by a truck while parked. This conversation led me to doing some research and finding out the story of the two Crosley Brothers. 

The story starts… before the French and Indian war when the west was an area colonized by settlers in what are now Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Minnesota. The Crosley Clan Continue reading Two Brothers named “Crosley” One who thought it…one who asked “how much are you willing to invest?” →

“UTES” or I did not know that was Australian!   In 1925 Henry Ford Established an Outpost of the Ford Motor Company in Australia. This companies factories have been producing Ford products forAustralia and New Zealand ever since. In 2016 the manufacturing Continue reading Automotive Magnetism “Utes” #22 →

Like John DeLorean and Malcolm Bricklin Henry J Kaiser bucked the Detroit auto industry and boldly named his car after himself However not by his family name; by his first and second name initial“Henry J”

Continue reading Automotive Magnetism “Henry J”#16 →

As a young boy I loved building models of cars. In the early 1950’S I built a plastic model of a1928 Mercedes SSK that car always stood

out in my mind. 30 years later a friend of mine and I looked into a plan to buy new Ford Pintos and Use the components to assemble and sell SSK replicas, at that time there were kits available to do this from Pinto front engine design or VW rear engine; the kit manufacturer was based out of Florida. Spring ahead to The First Sunday in June at the Hollywood Car Show “From down the street you could see a Beautiful Gleaming White and Chrome Front of at a quick glance Looked like that SSK.  Closer inspection Continue reading Automotive Magnetism “Excalibur”#12… →