50 Years In the Hobby

When we went to work at Old Cars Weekly in 1978, the founder of the company — the late Chester L. Krause — told us about his “dream team” of people who had once worked for him and went on to other careers in the old-car industry. One of those people was Bob Lichty.

A few years later, we heard through the grapevine that Lichty was looking for a job and willing to return to Wisconsin to work for the company. He was hired and came back with lots of additional hobby knowledge that he had acquired and which greatly benefitted Old Cars Weekly. He also gained some notoriety for the car cartoons that he created to fill odd spaces in the OCW layouts.

Bob and I worked together for the next six years or so, then Bob’s taste for wanderlust took him in different directions. He worked for Carlisle Events and The Blackhawk Collection before moving to Ohio to open his own collector-car dealership called Motorcar Portfolio ( in Canton, Ohio. With his extensive old-car industry knowledge,