p.s. My quick edit of Stamp's Fleetwood Sixty Special that I posted above produced something that (not surprisingly) looks rather similar to Stamp's e...

Yeah, OK, fair enough. It was a bit heavy-handed, though. Made the '58 Buick look almost delicately restrained by comparison.

Likewise. I think that slab of chrome is gross and I would get rid of it - but then it wouldn't be a Fleetwood Special any more!

Yes, I recall that the car was originally intended to be a Cadillac (to be marketed under the old La Salle nameplate) but Cadillac management said the...

More difficult than I expected. The Riviera is one of my all-time favourites but maybe I suffered a kind of reaction today and just for a moment I was...

Yes, very nice, a colour that suited the car perfectly. I paid my own homage to it some years ago. Conversion of the Minichamps "Kennedy" limo...

I think some residual adolescent mechanism still ticking over in the darker reaches of your mind may have led you to misinterpret these images. They s...

Glad you approve, David. But I think your closing comment maybe belongs in the "The Brain and Life" post?

David, the design of horse-powered automobiles is fraught with technical problems, and you have made a couple of valid points. First, the proximity ...

Right, but you have no guilt about obliging one to propel three and a half tons of Duesie at an acceptable pace, fuelled by the dangling promise of a ...

Well, I'm pleased to hear that it is "Mission accomplished", because if anyone were to suggest that I had failed to give satisfaction, things might ra...

@georgeschire George, I think you may have missed my follow-up post above!!

Well, near enough. (I do tend to forget just how far ahead we are here in GMT-land).