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, hopped up with a Chuck Kohler header and a dual-carburetor intake. I also spy a Braje cam cover on the engine.
The Skorpion wasn’t really a Crosley offering. Crosley already had two roadster models, the Super Sport and the Hot Shot, so they didn’t need to offer yet another. Instead, the Skorpion was one of a handful of fiberglass roadster bodies (including the Almquist) that one could plop onto a Crosley chassis. According to the history of the Skorpion at americansportscars.com, Jack Wills, who had worked with fiberglass and plastics since 1936, partnered with former Le Baron and Briggs designer Ralph Roberts to create the Skorpion around 1950. They built four complete cars, but sold the majority of their bodies in kit form.
The company appears to have absolutely no relation to the Great Britain-based company of the same name that produced a kit car for the Skoda chassis in the late 1980s and mid-1990s.
Looking over Dale’s Skorp, I don’t blame the Crosley club at all for choosing it as their Crosley of the Month.
BTW, if your club’s website has a car of the month, let us know. It’ll be good publicity for your club.
|
Mitglieder-Artikel 
(0 Bewertung)