It drives through schools: GMC C7000

When most of us dream about cars they should have made, it’s usually along the lines of, “they should have put the Hemi in the convertible,” and we see our share of Hemi convertibles being built. When I saw the 1984 GMC C7000 2˝-ton pickup listed in the catalog for ICA’s Williams Auction, it looked like a cool modified truck. I told Dan about it, and was surprised when he said, “I’ve always wanted to do that - it’s an easy conversion.” It...

13/10/2008

SIA Flashback - Living With Style

Good designers didn’t necessarily churn out designs that constantly made production. Instead, they advanced new design ideas, they influenced other good designers and they apparently networked like crazy. Or so one believes after reading Holden Koto’s autobiographical article in SIA #32, January-February 1976, detailing the first half of his professional career, split among Briggs, Hudson and Raymond Loewy’s design group. The second half of his story we’ll present next...

12/10/2008

Saturday shoutout - allovertheInternetnow edition

Yes, it’s time for the Saturday shoutout again. Only this week’s been a little different. Instead of any one website providing a dumptruckload of traffic for us (other than Autoblog, which picked up on the General Lee CJ-7 and the Mustang station wagon posts), we saw several JeepComanche-sized loads of traffic, so we thought we’d highlight ‘em all. First up, and in no particular order, motorpasion.com, which seems to be one of the premier Spanish-language automotive...

11/10/2008

a Skorpion with a little stinger under the hood

I’m sure many car clubs do this, but I’m drawn back to the Crosley Automobile Club’s website on a monthly basis to check out the Crosley of the Month. Most times, it’s a post-war CC or CD sedan or station wagon, but every now and then, Jim Bollman, the club’s website coordinator, tosses in a rarity, like the 1951 Skorpion that serves as the Crosley of the Month for October. Owned by Dale Liebherr of Minden, Nevada, the Skorp has a stock 44-cu.in. four-cylinder,...

10/10/2008

Test your knowledge of automotive history Part 3

I guess those last few questions were too easy, because they were all answered quickly. So we will move on to the next round of questions from Jim Hill’s pop quiz. PS. We did not have the advantage of the Hemmings research library, or google search or wikipedia on the cruise ship so these questions were pretty tough for the staff as well as the cruisers. 13. What company made wagons before they made sedans? 14. Whose company slogan was “Boss of the Road” and when was it first...

09/10/2008

BigLorryBlog visits the Hannover truck show, brings back vintage truck photos, we thank the pie-give

I’m still catching up on my reading after being away from two weeks (I know, complain, complain…), so expect a Four-Links rather soon. In the meantime, I wanted to point out a five-part (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5) series of posts that BigLorryBlog posted on the 2008 IAA Commercial Vehicles Show in Hannover last month - not on all the new trucks exhibited there, but on all the vintage trucks, including a number of odd, significant and unidentified (or unelaborated)...

09/10/2008

BigLorryBlog visits the Hannover truck show, brings back vintage truck photos, we thank the pie-give

I’m still catching up on my reading after being away from two weeks (I know, complain, complain…), so expect a Four-Links rather soon. In the meantime, I wanted to point out a five-part (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5) series of posts that BigLorryBlog posted on the 2008 IAA Commercial Vehicles Show in Hannover last month - not on all the new trucks exhibited there, but on all the vintage trucks, including a number of odd, significant and unidentified (or unelaborated)...

09/10/2008

BigLorryBlog visits the Hannover truck show, brings back vintage truck photos, we thank the pie-give

I’m still catching up on my reading after being away from two weeks (I know, complain, complain…), so expect a Four-Links rather soon. In the meantime, I wanted to point out a five-part (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5) series of posts that BigLorryBlog posted on the 2008 IAA Commercial Vehicles Show in Hannover last month - not on all the new trucks exhibited there, but on all the vintage trucks, including a number of odd, significant and unidentified (or unelaborated)...

09/10/2008

BigLorryBlog visits the Hannover truck show, brings back vintage truck photos, we thank the pie-give

I’m still catching up on my reading after being away from two weeks (I know, complain, complain…), so expect a Four-Links rather soon. In the meantime, I wanted to point out a five-part (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5) series of posts that BigLorryBlog posted on the 2008 IAA Commercial Vehicles Show in Hannover last month - not on all the new trucks exhibited there, but on all the vintage trucks, including a number of odd, significant and unidentified (or unelaborated)...

09/10/2008

BigLorryBlog visits the Hannover truck show, brings back vintage truck photos, we thank the pie-give

I’m still catching up on my reading after being away from two weeks (I know, complain, complain…), so expect a Four-Links rather soon. In the meantime, I wanted to point out a five-part (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5) series of posts that BigLorryBlog posted on the 2008 IAA Commercial Vehicles Show in Hannover last month - not on all the new trucks exhibited there, but on all the vintage trucks, including a number of odd, significant and unidentified (or unelaborated)...

09/10/2008

BigLorryBlog visits the Hannover truck show, brings back vintage truck photos, we thank the pie-give

I’m still catching up on my reading after being away from two weeks (I know, complain, complain…), so expect a Four-Links rather soon. In the meantime, I wanted to point out a five-part (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5) series of posts that BigLorryBlog posted on the 2008 IAA Commercial Vehicles Show in Hannover last month - not on all the new trucks exhibited there, but on all the vintage trucks, including a number of odd, significant and unidentified (or unelaborated)...

09/10/2008

BigLorryBlog visits the Hannover truck show, brings back vintage truck photos, we thank the pie-give

I’m still catching up on my reading after being away from two weeks (I know, complain, complain…), so expect a Four-Links rather soon. In the meantime, I wanted to point out a five-part (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5) series of posts that BigLorryBlog posted on the 2008 IAA Commercial Vehicles Show in Hannover last month - not on all the new trucks exhibited there, but on all the vintage trucks, including a number of odd, significant and unidentified (or unelaborated)...

09/10/2008

BigLorryBlog visits the Hannover truck show, brings back vintage truck photos, we thank the pie-give

I’m still catching up on my reading after being away from two weeks (I know, complain, complain…), so expect a Four-Links rather soon. In the meantime, I wanted to point out a five-part (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5) series of posts that BigLorryBlog posted on the 2008 IAA Commercial Vehicles Show in Hannover last month - not on all the new trucks exhibited there, but on all the vintage trucks, including a number of odd, significant and unidentified (or unelaborated)...

09/10/2008

BigLorryBlog visits the Hannover truck show, brings back vintage truck photos, we thank the pie-give

I’m still catching up on my reading after being away from two weeks (I know, complain, complain…), so expect a Four-Links rather soon. In the meantime, I wanted to point out a five-part (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5) series of posts that BigLorryBlog posted on the 2008 IAA Commercial Vehicles Show in Hannover last month - not on all the new trucks exhibited there, but on all the vintage trucks, including a number of odd, significant and unidentified (or unelaborated)...

09/10/2008

BigLorryBlog visits the Hannover truck show, brings back vintage truck photos, we thank the pie-give

I’m still catching up on my reading after being away from two weeks (I know, complain, complain…), so expect a Four-Links rather soon. In the meantime, I wanted to point out a five-part (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5) series of posts that BigLorryBlog posted on the 2008 IAA Commercial Vehicles Show in Hannover last month - not on all the new trucks exhibited there, but on all the vintage trucks, including a number of odd, significant and unidentified (or unelaborated)...

09/10/2008

BigLorryBlog visits the Hannover truck show, brings back vintage truck photos, we thank the pie-give

I’m still catching up on my reading after being away from two weeks (I know, complain, complain…), so expect a Four-Links rather soon. In the meantime, I wanted to point out a five-part (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5) series of posts that BigLorryBlog posted on the 2008 IAA Commercial Vehicles Show in Hannover last month - not on all the new trucks exhibited there, but on all the vintage trucks, including a number of odd, significant and unidentified (or unelaborated)...

09/10/2008

another “BIG” motorcycle

I think I have your big trike beat Dan. This one is named “Big.” The bike sits in front of the Wheels Through Time motorcycle museum in Maggie Valley, North Carolina. It is billed as the world’s largest, rideable motorcycle chopper (pay no attention to the training wheels under the primary cover). It will seat five people and is 23 feet long and eight feet high. It was built for the TV show of the same name on the Discovery Channel, then purchased by the museum. When I visited...

08/10/2008

Test your knowledge of automotive history Part 2

We have had a few correct answers to the first posting but we are still waiting for others. In the meantime, here are a few more: 7. What automobile company was started by JW and WD Packard (Hint: Not the most obvious answer). 8. What car ran so well when it was on “All in the Family”? 9. What were called the “3 Ps” considered as the finest cars of their time? 10. Who was Mercedes from the name Mercedes-Benz? Mercedes SLR McLaren model 722, zero to sixty in 3.6 seconds,...

08/10/2008

so where does the driver sit? Ten-foot-tall three-wheeler going up for auction

So among the lots at Barrett-Jackson’s inaugural Las Vegas auction later this month (aside from Carroll Shelby’s MG TC, his first race car), we spied lot 175, billed as the “Thunderous Cyclops.” Of course, with a name like that, we had to investigate. According to the auction description, it’s a to-scale 10-foot-tall Honda three-wheeler, created by a chap named Clifford Smith. We’re guessing Clifford’s from Texas. The three-wheeler uses two different...

07/10/2008

Save these microcars: Cranwell, Lincolnshire

First, a disclaimer: We are not selling these cars. Every time we post something like this, people come out of the woodwork asking us to call them. These cars are being auctioned. Go to England and buy them. Now that’s off my chest, what we’ve got here is the Bubblecar Museum, selling off their entire collection of little vehicles. Many are, if not unique, at least rare enough to be worth saving. Golding Young has the sale, which includes 80 cars and a mess of spares (Honestly,...

07/10/2008

Lost and Found overflow - Mustang station wagon, fact or fiction?

So in the November HCC Lost and Found, I presented a photo submitted by a reader of a 1966 (or thereabouts) Shelby G.T.350 station wagon, along with a claim that Ford actually built two Mustang station wagons around that time. Yeah, I wasn’t too sure of that claim, but it’s a neat concept, and I thought I’d throw it out there just to see what kind of responses - either backing up or disproving that claim - I’d get. First one came from Jeff Pearce of Harrisville, Utah,...

06/10/2008

SIA Flashback - The Prophet (1935 Stout Scarab)

Perhaps the most brilliant thing Bill Stout ever did, according to Rich Taylor’s account of the engineer’s life and career in SIA #32, January-February 1976, was not to design the Scarab for which he is most known, or to influence aviation history early on. Instead, the manner in which he raised funds to start his own aircraft company was a particular stroke of chutzpatic genius. Interestingly, his Scarab was never initially intended for production, just to show off his engineering...

05/10/2008

Horrified fascination: Mustangcycle

It’s called Schadenfreude, the guilty pleasure of seeing something awful. It’s why we gawk at car wrecks, or laugh at a football to the groin. It’s what we get when we look at Autofix’s Australian ‘67 Mustang Trike. Not many details offered, or necessary, really, beyond that “The custom made front end houses a 289 cubic inch Windsor V8 backed by a C4 auto transmission with a 9 inch diff out the back.” Rear window graphics suggest its known as...

04/10/2008

Elamites gots dubs!

Okay, truth be told, they’re almost 36 inches in diameter, far exceeding in size anything you’ll see outside of a SEMA booth, but when it comes to ancient wheeled vehicle history, you can’t go much further back than these bronze chariot wheels that Bonhams intends to auction off at their next antiquities sale October 15 at the New Bond Street saleroom in London. According to the Bonhams press release: Bonhams is selling a set of chariot wheels that last rolled around an...

03/10/2008

thank you Matt Litwin - car ads from 1972

When researching articles, we often dig back through the buff books for road test information on the cars we’re writing about today, and Associate Editor Matt Litwin’s substantial collection of old car magazines has saved our bacon numerous times. And, of course, we end up losing an hour with each mag he brings in as we flip through the old car ads in each issue. So I thought I’d share some of the fun with all of the full-page car ads (and one bike ad) from the June 1972...

03/10/2008

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