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It started with Horst Kobs, a German émigré who settled in Vancouver, British Columbia, in the 1950s, when he went to Dueck GM and bought himself a Marina Blue 1966 Corvair Corsa Turbo convertible. His other Corvair, a red coupe, was a good car, so why not more of the same, with power and a soft top? With no kids to worry about, Horst and wife Joseé were able to break out and do all sorts of fun things in their convertible, like drive cross-country to Montreal and visit Expo ‘67, and...

06/11/2008

knew I shoulda gone to Hershey - restored Walker hybrid milk truck makes its debut

Yes, I missed Hershey this year, despite pleadings from just about everybody I know in the old car hobby to attend. And I probably should have listened to them, because by missing Hershey, I missed the debut of the restored 1938 Walker Dynamotive 500 gas-electric hybrid delivery truck that we blogged about earlier this year. Jay Crist, who picked up two of the rare trucks from the NATMUS museum late last year, rebuilt one from the skeleton up in just 10 months, an amazing accomplishment for...

29/10/2008

Kids save the darndest things

…like old Japanese cars, if you’re lucky. I spent Monday with ice racer Mike Kamm from the AMEC, photographing his 1977 Datsun B210. That was a load of fun in itself, the day turned into a minor festival of obscure 1970s and 1980s Japanese iron. Parked out in front of Mike’s house was his everyday racer, [...]

28/02/2008

Kaiser on patrol

We’d heard for a long time that Kaiser-Frazer once produced at least a few cars that were sold specifically for law-enforcement use, but other than 1/43rd scale Brooklin die-cast of the Kaiser Manhattan in Ohio State Highway Patrol livery, we’d never seen one. That changed when we happened upon the Web site of the Moon [...]

08/10/2007

Kelsey-Hayes: wheels, brakes and ? fallout shelters?

Okay, so this doesn’t have much to do with old cars per se, but anybody who knows old cars knows the Kelsey-Hayes Corporation, and this brochure that popped up on Flickr for a Kelsey-Hayes-produced fallout shelter just seems odd. The brochure dates from 1963, which fits in with the company’s period of diversification in the late [...]

18/08/2007

Koenigsegg kaput?

On the eve of their announcement that the CCX supercar will be sold in the US, a report in Auto Trader says that the small-volume Swedish company is looking for investors. Koenigsegg’s 30 employees build a handful of their 240 mph-plus cars a year (and even their own engines, now), but despite a $650,000 price tag, [...]

16/08/2007