Posted by Daniel Strohl on June 12, 2010 under Bugatti Type 35, Cadillinc, La Carrera Panamericana, Monopoly token, Rex Burnett, automobilia, cutaway drawings, four-wheel drive, junkyards and abandoned vehicles, kiddie cars, one-offs and homebuilts, pedal car, renderings and concept sketches, snowmobiles | 
* Earlier this week, Ryan of the Jalopy Journal posted the above photo he bought down Mexico way of a very unusual hybrid of Cadillac, Lincoln and aircraft parts. It didn’t take much time at all for the H.A.M.B.sters to id the cockpit (Consolidated-Vultee BT-13 trainer) and post more photos of the Cadillinc, including some in color and some of it running Le Carrera Panamericana.
* While we’re on the topic of hot rods, ze Last Chance Garage recently posted more Rex Burnett cutaway drawings than I’ve ever seen in one place at one time.
* BLB came across a few photos of an Icelandic four-by-four junkyard. As of the writing of this post, nobody’s identified the red box topped with the snowmobile. Or the sled, for that matter.
* In the comments to last year’s post on the Joe Ihnat Poppen’s Special pedal car, Jason let us know about his own homebuilt pedal car, patterned on a Bugatti Type 35.
* Finally, as suggested by John Lee, Kashgar’s ruminations on the car token in Monopoly. What was it patterned after, he wonders. We found it a little more interesting that there’s an entire page on the history of the tokens (there was, at least), and that at one point, the car token had a driver in it.
Posted by Daniel Strohl on July 18, 2009 under Australian cars, Hemmings Classic Car, dream cars, show cars and prototypes, junkyards and abandoned vehicles, road trips and cruising, snowmobiles, tractors |
* Automotive historians generally pay less attention to assembled cars of the 1920s than they do bespoke cars of that same era, but the Gardner is worth more attention than other assembled cars for a variety of reasons, not excluding its attempt to build a front-wheel drive car toward the end of its existence.
* Our SIA Flashback on Norman Bel Geddes’s automobiles neglected to show a picture of his flying car concept, shown here (thanks to the photoblog x planes) as a model “in flight.”
* Of all the holidays that one would normally associate with snowmobiles, the Fourth of July comes in dead last, but in Crosby, Minnesota, vintage Scorpion sleds (and other Trail-A-Sled products) paraded down Main Street to celebrate the products that made the town (somewhat) famous. VintageSledders.com has the pics.
* Most Americans, even American tractor enthusiasts, probably have never heard of the Chamberlain Champion tractor, an Aussie implement built between 1955 and 1966. That’s not why a bunch of blokes from Down Under shipped their Chamberlains to Baltimore and began a cross-country trek in them. Nah, the group started driving their tractors around Australia a few years ago and decided it’d be a grand adventure to see the States in their tractors. They’re currently somewhere around Kentucky. (via)
Posted by Daniel Strohl on January 23, 2007 under Hemmings Classic Car, junkyards and abandoned vehicles, snowmobiles, station wagons, trucks and Jeeps |
One of the gals upstairs had an uncle who wanted to start an auto repair business back in the 1960s or so. Apparently, his business approach consisted of buying up broken-down cars, hauling them back to his place and using them for parts to repair customer cars.
Well, the business didn’t last too long, but he still had all these cars up on a hill on his property. Fast forward 40 years and only the elements touched the cars. The uncle recently passed, though before he did, a couple editorial staffers got a nice tour of the collection. Their fate, as far as we know, is up in the air. Their location, until such fate is decided, remains a secret.
