4/25/2024
Joe Bortz
My son Marc had just graduated high school and was accepted to Emory University in Atlanta. I got a call from Marc and he said one of the fellow students who lived in Atlanta said that their neighbor had a General Motors Motorama car.
4/25/2024
Joe Bortz
An interesting piece of collecting history that became part of the Bortz Auto Collection is that in 1956 a famous Pontiac Dream Car was called the Club de Mer.
4/25/2024
Joe Bortz
Many General Motors concept cars in the Bortz Auto Collection were the source for many recognizable styling cues that were to come on GM production cars.
4/25/2024
Joe Bortz
After WWII, General Motors was the largest corporation in the world. The pipelines were just flowing with massive amounts of money and profits.
4/25/2024
Joe Bortz
Some of us old timers, we can remember just where we were the moment that President Kennedy had been assassinated. For all Americans, it was a national heart breaking experience that was never forgotten.
4/25/2024
Joe Bortz
Back in the mid-‘60s one of my old favorite car magazines was just getting its start and at the time there were no pictures in it.
4/25/2024
Joe Bortz
Few collectors would think that American Motors had anything to do with concept cars in the early decades after the war.
4/21/2024
Joe Bortz
It seems impossible that a man who was been affiliated with so many large businesses is not a household name in the hobby.
4/21/2024
Joe Bortz
We have all heard the expression “behind every great man there is a great woman”…in the case of Harley Earl, there was a great person behind Harley Earl but it was not a woman but a gentleman named Carl Renner.
4/21/2024
Joe Bortz
It was in the later 80’s when my high school friend Al Gartzman said he was sure that he found a lead on a gentleman who owned one of the Futurliner busses.
7/13/2021
Joe Bortz
The 1955 Chevrolet Biscayne began life as a super star to showcase the new Chevy 265 cubic inch V-8 engine and was featured at the 1955 Motorama where it wowed the world with its futuristic design and styling cues.
7/13/2021
Joe Bortz
It was during the early 1980s when I was engrossed in collecting pre-war classic cars that I began to realize the 1950s dream cars/concept cars that had been written about in books and magazines as being destroyed after they met their show purposes.
6/12/2021
Joe Bortz
When I was a boy in Chicago in 1956, my dad bought a used 1955 Corvette. He brought the car home, and was extremely proud of it.
6/12/2021
Joe Bortz
Personally, I have found that one of the privileges getting old is that I have been around long enough to know and be friends with many of the pillars of the car collecting community.
6/12/2021
Joe Bortz
In 1972, I purchased a 1955 black 300 SL Gullwing from the original owner in Los Angeles and paid the exorbitant price of $12,000.00.
6/12/2021
Joe Bortz
My English 101 teacher said every good story needs a memorable beginning as well as a surprise ending, and we will begin this story just before World War II.
5/8/2018
Joe Bortz
When I first saw the 1950 Fitzpatrick custom in the early 1980s, it was in a parking lot at a Pennsylvania shopping center, I was absolutely stunned. I searched for the owner, but could not find him.
4/10/2018
Joe Bortz
They were of course the: (all part of the Bortz Auto Collection) 1954 Bonneville Special, 1955 LaSalle Roadster and the
1964 DeLorean Pontiac XP-833 Banshee.
3/13/2018
Joe Bortz
I started to realize that that light bulb was extremely unusual, as I had never seen another one like it anywhere. So one day I decided to find a ladder and replace it with a frosted light bulb.