It wasn’t supposed to happen like this. Fresh out of Temple University with a degree in marketing, Ed Sweeney hit the streets in search of his dream job with a carmaker. Any carmaker. He wanted to work in advertising, make legendary commercials, do the fun stuff. Subaru passed. So did Jaguar. In fact, so did […]
Junkyard Gem: 1976 MG Midget
During the middle 1970s, British Leyland offered car shoppers in North America four different two-seat convertible sports cars: the Triumph TR6, the Triumph Spitfire, the MGB and the MG Midget (the convertible version of the Triumph TR7 didn’t go on sale here until the 1979 model year). Of those four, the cheapest was always the […]
Junkyard Gem: 1956 Ford Zephyr Saloon
Henry Ford began building cars in Great Britain all the way back in 1911, when the first Model Ts came off the line in Manchester. By the 1930s, Ford Britain was assembling models designed just for the European market, leading to something of a parallel Blue Oval universe across the Atlantic. After World War II, […]