Behind the wheels

from March 2022

by Arlington Today

It’s ba-aaack

SPOTLIGHTING CLASSICS FROM THE FIRST 100 ISSUES

Adlai Pennington 1949 Packard

Bob Woods 1966 Ford GT40 Bill & Jean Jewell 1930 Franklin Airman Club Sedan

Wayne Wilshire 1954 Chevrolet Pickup

The original idea to celebrate our 100th anniversary of featuring amazing cars on these pages was to choose that one special vehicle from previous issues that stood out among all the rest. It turned out that there was just no way to elevate any one of them to a position of “best ever” or some other form of exalted standing among all the rest.

Obviously, every one of them deserved to be chosen, otherwise they would not have appeared on these pages to tell their stories because all of them had their own reasons to believe they were set aside for recognition.

Instead, we’ve chosen the ones you see this month as representative of all the rest. Still, any selection of some among them all is a daunting assignment. Any of the previous featured vehicles could just as well have been picked, so we did this sort of randomly with the goal of achieving a cross section of models, ranging from the earliest to the latest spanning the frst seven decades of the past century.

Since we’ve written complete stories and included photos of every car from all angles inside and out, we used just the feature photo of each here as a reminder of how extraordinary the world of collecting classic cars has become.

I hope you will enjoy the look back as much as we at Arlington Today have done in putting this together for our anniversary issue.