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Four-Links – the Allard that ended American road racing, Bomonster, COPO...
* The announcement of the Springfield Vintage Grand Prix earlier this week neatly coincided with a post on The Chicane on the Fred Wacker Allard J2 that competed in the 1952 Watkins Glen road races...
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Morgan Unveils Their 21st Century Trike
Another exciting debut at this year’s Geneva Motor Show has been the long-discussed, long-awaited return of the Morgan Motor Company’s official (and officially named) 3 Wheeler. While some may view it...
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Volt’s predecessor: GM’s 512-series hybrid, electric and microcar
Enduring Automotive History Myths, No. 467 and 467a: Electric cars, while popular around the dawn of the automotive age, were quickly abandoned when the invention of the electric self-starter prompted...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – birthplace of the American automobile?
Amid all the celebrations of Mercedes-Benz’s 125th anniversary this year, it’s worth keeping in mind that Daimler and Benz were not the inventors of the automobile. Inventors of the internal...
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Microcar Megafun in Boston
Tiny vehicles of all sorts will be descending on suburban Boston this weekend for Gould’s 16th Annual Microcar & Minicar Classic Event, a gathering that promises fun for participants and...
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Happy 150th birthday, Charles Duryea!
Courtesy of the Boyertown Museum of Historic Vehicles We recently celebrated the sesquicentennial of Billy Durant’s birth, and another key figure in the nascent American automotive industry celebrates...
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Four-Links – Spaceballs car, Turbo Phantom, Freddie Ford, electronic highway...
* We are indebted to Jesse, the justacarguy, for enlightening us as to the whereabouts of the hovercar from Spaceballs, one of the greatest films of all time. According to the placard with it in the...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – homebuilt reverse trike
Props to the builder of this 1989 Honda Goldwing-based airplane-bodied, reverse trike for sale on Hemmings.com for the tiny propeller up front. From the seller’s description: made into a airplane car....
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Four-Links – Ernie Adams revisited, Maratuech, Atomitron, saxomophone
* While we’re patiently waiting for Jeff Diehl’s full documentary on Ernie Adams’s dwarf cars, there’s this video that’s been making the rounds this week with a closer look at Adams’s dwarf Mercury. *...
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Four-Links – another Buckminster Fuller streamliner, Arrowhead teardropper,...
* What car guys most know Buckminster Fuller for is the Dymaxion three-wheeled streamliner, but perhaps more car guys would be familiar with him if his plan to build a four-wheeled streamliner with...
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Charlie Beesley’s car pictures, part 2 – Oddballs and Weirdos
All photos courtesy and copyright Charlie Beesley. People do strange things with cars. And while Charlie Beesley didn’t purposefully look for pictures of motorized oddballs and weirdos, they do seem...
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Cars of Futures Past – Dymaxion 4D Transport
The restored Dymaxion #2 returns to the National Automobile Museum. Photo courtesy National Automobile Museum. Architect and visionary Buckminster Fuller had a dream of creating a better world, one in...
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From the archives: Bob Keyes’s TriVette
The 1970s were a troubling time for Detroit and the economy in general. Inflation, recession and the oil embargo all helped create a new demand for small, efficient and economical automobiles. The...
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Small shipments only: 1967 Solyto Break Camping to cross the stage
1967 Solyto Break Camping. Photos courtesy Auctions America. Europeans have different requirements for delivery vehicles than Americans, and in cities where streets often date back to the Middle Ages,...
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Arsonist damages two vehicles in attack on National Automobile Museum
The Ed Roth High Flyer trike shortly after the fire. Photo courtesy National Automobile Museum. At about 2:45 Friday morning, an arsonist threw a rock through the front door of the National Automobile...
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Four-Links – Frank Sinatra’s Zebra car, honeymoon Toyopet, XJ13 wreck and...
* This week, Clasp Garage took a look at the zebra-styled Mustang that George Barris built for Frank Sinatra – specifically for his movie “Marriage on the Rocks.” * One of the many vehicles that was...
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Four-Links – Holden Hurricane revisited, Tri-Magnum, Miss Bacfire, Ford’s SOHC
* The restoration of the Holden Hurricane concept car by Holden took place back in 2011, and while we already hit it up for Four-Links back then, Car Build Index this week assembled a big batch of...
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Not your average beer truck: 1930 Morgan Super Aero van
1930 Morgan Super Aero with custom van body. Photos by author unless otherwise indicated. Ron Garner has a taste for the unusual, as demonstrated by his four-plus decades of Morgan ownership. While...
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Wheel Stories from the Patent Files: The Mathis VL 333
Editor’s note: Ryan Chirnomas is a patent attorney and classic car enthusiast in Washington, D.C. In this series, he examines the intersection of those fields by looking at design patents—which...
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Petersen Museum launches campaign to fund restoration of its 1948 Davis Divan
1948 Davis Divan, from the Petersen Museum’s collection. Still grab from video below. The Davis Motorcar Company built just 17 examples of its three-wheeled cars before production ended in 1948, but...
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