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SIA Flashback – The Lighter Side of Bohman & Schwartz
I figure that we had an article about one coachbuilder last week, why not include another this week, as we return to SIA #11, June-July 1972. However, this article focuses on some of the more bizarre...
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SIA Flashback – Mr. Way’s Wonderful Woodie
Not everything that turned out of the pre-war coachbuilders’ shops was some outlandish show car for the ultra-rich. Instead, many times, they were simply called upon to build exactly what somebody of...
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SIA Flashback – The Topper Buick’s Many Metamorphoses
Short one this week, but it’s a good one. Before the 1980s, perhaps the most famous TV/film car was the Topper Buick, known both for its appearance in the Cary Grant film as well as for its use by...
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One-off Bohman Special emerges after nearly 60 years
For decades, Tom Sawyer of Salt Lake City thought he owned a special handbuilt Allard of some sort. Understandable, given that it was sold to him as such and it appeared to date from the early 1950s,...
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SIA Flashback – Hollywoodie! 1949 Cadillac Seventy-Five
It’s always hard to swallow the stories that get told about coachbuilt Cadillacs; wagons and woodies seemed to be favorites of external coachbuilders during the 1940s and 1950s, and so many of the...
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Mae West’s Duesenberg among Hollywood cars at upcoming Wine Country Classic
Mae West’s 1934 Duesenberg J-370. Photo by Ron Kimball. Perhaps no other symbol of success is more closely associated with Hollywood glamour than the luxury automobile. Clark Gable and wife Carole...
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1935 Duesenberg SJ Town Cabriolet reportedly designed for Mae West heads to...
1935 Duesenberg SJ Town Cabriolet by Bohman & Schwartz. Photos by Darin Schnabel, courtesy RM Auctions. In the 1930s, Mae West was among the highest paid and most influential women in America. A...
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