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hast thou no shame? shoe company pilfers art car design
Photo via wardrobeoxygen.com So apparently the retailer Marshalls thought it’d be a great idea to create an art car in the shape of a stiletto to drum up attention for some shoe-shopping website...
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lose one wheel, or gain two?
While surfing this weekend and trying to avoid shoveling the foot or two of snow that was hammering the Northeast, I came across a couple different directions for those of you not satisfied with four...
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A little celebration for Morgan’s 100th birthday
Next year, 2009, marks the centenary of the Morgan Motor Company, Britain’s oldest surviving carmaker and one of the world’s most ancient marques. To celebrate the start of its second century, the...
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Brightwells: ATCO child’s car to Volvo’s pig car, plus bonus Veteran power trike
Brightwells March 18th auction in Leominster, Herts, has plenty of perfectly normal Jaguars and Mercedes. But in a lineup of 31 cars, they have more insanely cool oddities than you’ll see in any five...
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SIA Flashback – Autos by Architects
However many architects actually did cross disciplinary lines to draft up automobiles, John Pashdag focuses on four of the better-known architects who did – Buckminster Fuller, Le Corbusier, Walter...
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Four-Links – BMW art car wallpaper, ACE three-wheeler gets press coverage,...
* Yes, we’ve been following the news of the famed BMW art cars’ U.S. tour, and we’re pretty jazzed to see them coming to New York. May just have to make a trip down there. But if you can’t happen to...
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Four-Links – another factory pink car spotted, museum celebrates car...
* We’ve posted on the Birmingham News’s Engine Block blog and their friends at Old Car Heaven before, and the folks at OCH recently brought home a pink 1956 Chrysler New Yorker convertible. Why we’ve...
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Let me shoot a seven with every shot: Vegas vacation, part 2
You wouldn’t think I’d visit Las Vegas without hitting up the Imperial Palace collection, would you? The last time I visited the town, I kicked myself for not making the time to see it, especially...
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SIA Flashback – Big One-Make Collectors
We call this the collector car hobby, but we often don’t really collect cars like we do seashells or stamps – one or two is enough for most of us. But in SIA #46, August 1978, Ray Scroggins considered...
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SIA Flashback – 1939 Morgan Super Sports driveReport
One of the most thrilling cars I’ve ever driven was a Morgan three-wheeler for Hemmings Sports and Exotic Car magazine. Obviously, I wasn’t the first to drive or write seriously about one, and one of...
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New Indian Motorcycle Exhibit scheduled to open for leaf-peepers.
The Museum of Springfield History in Springfield, Massachusetts, has been working on a new display of Indian motorcycles which will be unveiled at a grand opening ceremony on October 10. I saw several...
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Sidehacks by the seashore
To everyone’s delight, last month’s spectacular Pebble Beach concours included a special category on historic British motorcycles. Most were competition bikes, or at least somewhat race-derived, but...
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Dymaxion No. 2 restoration underway; your help needed
We talked recently with Phil King over at Crosthwaite and Gardiner, one of England’s most renowned restoration houses, and found out that they’d not only been entrusted with the restoration of...
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Ercole! Ercole! Ercole!
Frequent commenter Gene Herman recently set his camera on stun so he could gather several examples of automotive wildlife he thought we’d enjoy. First up, his buddy Will’s 1952 Moto Guzzi Ercole. In...
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Four-Links – Quinton/Joehnck coupe, papercraft Apes, La Carrera updates,...
* Rudy Rodriguez, while known for one trendsetting hot rod pickup, is more than a one-trick pony, having built many slick period hot rods, including this restoration of the Quinton/Joehnck Competition...
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We salute you, Jeff Lane: Another Dymaxion replica on the way
Shortly after we heard about Crosthwaite and Gardiner’s two Dymaxion projects, we found out that Jeff Lane of the Lane Motor Museum in Nashville, Tennessee, also has been working on a Dymaxion replica...
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Plywood cars and odd superchargers
My Mechanix Illustrated collection has been growing lately, mostly filling gaps in the 1950s and 1960s, but I’ve also been adding some issues from the magazine’s predecessor, Modern Mechanix, and...
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Wobbly wheels and early Ferraris
One thing our post from late last year on the elliptical-wheel jeep/tractor was missing was any mention of who developed that. Thanks to my ever-growing Mechanix Illustrated collection and the August...
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Four-Links – Ferguson Mustangs, fishin’ for Sambas, land-speed motorhome,...
* In our recent SIA Flashback on four-wheel-drive autos, there was a brief mention of the Ferguson four-wheel-drive Mustangs. Commenter rupewrecht uncovered a link to a German Mustang club’s website...
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The Dale brochure in full
Thanks to Kevin Gibbs, I recently got to pen one of the most interesting stories I’ve written lately. Certainly the strangest. See, Kevin wrote in asking us whether we’d heard of a fiberglass...
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