Bill Senefsky
Bill Senefsky April 26, 2023 All Feature Vehicles
Part utility truck, part stylish car, the Ranchero reflected 20-plus important years Ford Motor Company had reinvented itself during the immediate postwar era and entering into the 1950s. A fresh look was undertaken especially with regard to modern styling and new ideas regarding automotive platforms. Gone were the days of strict utility work platforms assembled… Continue reading SPORTY HAULER, FORD’S UNIQUE RANCHERO...
Bill Senefsky April 26, 2023 All Feature Vehicles
Part utility truck, part stylish car, the Ranchero reflected 20-plus important years Ford Motor Company had reinvented itself during the immediate postwar era and entering into the 1950s. A fresh look was undertaken especially with regard to modern styling and new ideas regarding automotive platforms. Gone were the days of strict utility work platforms assembled… Continue reading SPORTY HAULER, FORD’S UNIQUE RANCHERO...
BILL SENEFSKY May 25, 2022 Chevrolet
Corvair: Chevrolet’s Other Sports Car The middle ’50s found Detroit’s automakers being subjected to new influences on the American road. Family members who were becoming more affluent were intrigued and interested in a small number of European brands now “trickling” onto American shores. The VW, Porsche, Renault and Fiat invasion had just begun. Small, independent… Continue reading Chevrolet Corvair’s roll in the growth of the American small car market in the 1950s...
BILL SENEFSKY May 24, 2022 All Feature Vehicles
Kung Fu Panda: Plymouth’s Barracuda Chrysler Corporation’s Forward Look design of the late ’50s, including period-correct tailfins and all, were beginning to wane by 1961. The company’s styling team, led by Virgil Exner, was looking to dramatically change course with image, size and shape throughout the future platform line. The first of the team’s launches… Continue reading RETROSPECT...
BILL SENEFSKY May 23, 2022 All Feature Vehicles
Radical Reality: Studebaker’s Remarkable Hawk Studebaker Corporation came out of the Second World War in remarkable shape. Like others in the automotive business at the time, it’d been forced to curtail civilian product production in early 1942 for an unknown duration. Unlike the other independent automakers, however, the company displayed advanced styling across its lineup… Continue reading REARVIEW MIRROR...
