Pat Krause is the real deal. He is a lifelong rodder hailing from Harford County Maryland and has been building cars for half a century. Pat lived the golden era of hot-rodding and cruised in a cool custom Olds Rocket, a member of the Golden Gears Car Club. The walls of Pat’s three-bay garage tell...
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Reader’s Rides: Tim Glace’s Jeeper’s Creeper Movie Truck Creeper Movie Truck
It’s big, it’s bad and it’s one of the most recognizable vehicles in horror film history. This is the truck from the 2001 film “Jeepers Creepers”. The personal ride of “The Creeper”, an unholy beast that stalks back roads every 23 years for 23 days looking for victims. Their fate is cleverly spelled out in...
Reader’s Ride: Dave Kluck’s ‘55 Willys Aero “Bermuda”
My dad opened a Willys (that’s Will-is, not Will-eze) dealership in 1952 in New Ulm, Minnesota. Prior to ‘52, the brand was known as the original mass producer of the military Jeep, and later, Jeep trucks, station wagons and the Jeepster. The Bantam company in PA gets credit for the first Jeep prototype, but it...
Reader’s Rides: 1961 “Bullet Bird” and 1956 Lincoln Continental Mark II
Kimberly Wahl’s 1961 “Bullet Bird” Our intrepid reporter and photographer Bill Ross found Kimberly and Adam Wahl’s beautiful car collection at the Hagley Museum this year. Adam and Kim are from Hockessin, Delaware, and in 2015, Adam flew down to Florida to attend the Mecum Auction in Kissimmee. He had intended to add a muscle...