For today’s Flashback we’re visiting Fort Charlotte in the Bahamas today, courtesy of this 1959 Pontiac Parisienne Vista taxi. Cabbies sometimes luck out and get the best rides. Fort Charlotte was built from 1789 to…
Posts tagged Canadian cars
Peugeot 604: Sochaux’s Chief Executive
The 604 was Peugeot’s first “executive car,” and the first time in 40 years that it had fielded a large car at all. Though the 402 was a fairly big car for a pre-war European,…
Panther Lima: The NeoClassic that Could
Robert Jankel had always been a car enthusiast and restorer, but he was a fashion designer by trade until, on a trip to Spain, he was offered a princely sum for a Rolls-Royce he’d restored….
Canadian Cargo: Ford Cortina MkII GT Estate
After Ford UK’s CEO, Sir Patrick Hennessy, discovered in 1960 that Ford of Germany had been gifted an unused front-drive Detroit compact (“Project Cardinal” – the Taunus 12M), he convinced Dearborn to allow Dagenham to…