I have but one bone to pick with Keith Marvin’s article from SIA #56, April 1980: At the end, he argues that the day of the custom car was restricted only to the pre-Depression era. Not so at all, as the Internet has so solidly elucidated us over the last decade or so. One-off cars, both factory-built and eccentric-built, span automotive history, from the first horseless carriage to today. Still, Marvin highlights several unusual and noteworthy vehicles from a variety of sources.
By the way, anybody who’s been to Hershey the last few years has seen the 1936 White mentioned in the article. Are any of the others still around?