Author Archive: Craig Fitzgerald
Monday Shopper: 1997 Chevrolet Camaro SS – $7,500
I like Hagerty Insurance a lot, but I’ll never understand their impulse to talk about how collector car prices are on the rise year after year. First off, suggesting to regular Joes that...
Prices were low, but sales were scarce at the Southern Auto Auctions dealer-only sale
Southern Auto Auctions in East Windsor, Connecticut is the country’s largest privately-owned automotive auction. On Wednesdays, its more than two dozen lanes are hopping, with dealers picking...
BangShift Road Test: 2014 Bentley Flying Spur W12
The 2014 Bentley Flying Spur W12 arrived at my door the Friday of Memorial Day weekend, on the mistaken assumption that I’d been invited to the Kim-Kanye nuptials. Sadly, all I...
Those pictures of massive stockpiles of cars on the internet today are from 2009
Suddenly, it’s on the rise again: a photo of a massive lot of automobiles, accompanied by text that reads something like “Nobody is buying brand new cars anymore! Well they are, but not...
Monday Shopper: 1968 Chevy Impala Wagon
For the price of a used Corolla with 100,000 miles, you can buy a super-cool car from one of the country’s most well-attended vintage car auctions. You don’t have to be rich or famous....
Ipswich Ale’s “Tapmobiles” combine our two favorite things: old trucks and cold beer
The only thing I like better than old trucks is old trucks and beer. Last summer, I spent the afternoon watching an Olde Tyme Base-Ball double-header, and drinking beer out of “Shag,”...
This 1987 Chevy El Camino up for sale on Hemmings.com holds a deep, dark secret
I want a 1978 to 1987 El Camino like a raccoon wants my garbage can, so I’m constantly combing the classifieds, the List of Craig, eBay and Hemmings for one that’s not gonna bust my bank...
Gearhead Guys You Should Know: John Schinella
When you hear about GM design staff, it’s always the man in charge that everybody talks about: Harley Earl, Bill Mitchell, Irv Rybicki, Chuck Jordan, Wayne Cherry, and now Ed Welburn. But under...
’58 Ford Retractable goes up in flames north of Boston, and the owner’s blaming corn-based fuel
Over the weekend, the indispensable Boston news site Universal Hub posted this photo of a 1958 Ford Retractable engulfed in flame on Rt. 93 in Stoneham, 20 minutes north of the city. The owner...
This video recreates all the locations from It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
When I was a kid, WLVI-TV 56 in Boston used to run It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World the Friday after Thanksgiving every year. I’ve probably watched it 40 times since. For a kid staring...
Evel Knievel Scramble Van trailer is up for sale with an opening bid of just $650!
A month or so ago, we ran a story on the Evel Knievel Scramble Van trailer that resurfaced in Worcester, Massachusetts. Now it’s up on eBay with a low opening bid. Lohnes is gonna be on this...
Monday Shopper: 1922 Model T Pickup
As we mentioned with the last Monday Shopper, the point here is not to focus on the big dollar lots that make news everywhere else, but to suggest that if you show up for the early lots of any given...
25 years ago today, a guy with a Cessna and an AK-47 held the city of Boston hostage
In 2014, Boston celebrated a grim anniversary on Patriot’s Day, at the running of the Boston Marathon. Twenty-five years ago tonight, the city experienced another terrorist attack, this time...
