* That dude from Telstar Logistics had a wild hair about the Partridge Family’s bus recently, for which we’re grateful. He not only dug up what he could of the history of the  Chevrolet used for the bus, but he also seemed to get a snap of the same one we saw back in 2006. He says it’s a replica. We say it’s the David Cassidy reunion tour replica. Care to weigh in?
* The previous Modern Mechanix weinermobile streamliner was quickly recognized, and there’s no mystery about who built this most recent one, spotted in the September 1938 issue of Mechanix Illustrated: Charles Christman and Bill Quiggle of Los Angeles. But no details beyond that. Anybody recognize this one?
While we’re linking to Modern Mechanix posts, we should note this unidentified streamlined COE and trailer and an article on the Ghia Selene concept car.
* While I thoroughly enjoyed the Laconia hillclimb last year, I probably would have enjoyed this 1930s hillclimb much better, judging from the video that HelmetHair posted.
* The Beetle really was too big. It needed, oh, a bit of chopping, a bit of channeling, a bit of shortening and maybe some sectioning. Or, at least, in the mind of one Finnish volksrodder, it did. Props on actually driving it around (it’s really not much larger than a snowmobile), but I still don’t understand why he used a Briggs and Stratton instead of a VW flat four. (via)
Four not enough for ya? Me neither.
* Was scanning through some photos of the 2004 Kenosha AMO meet and came across this American/Rogue done up Cowboy-style (the GMers have the Camino; the blue oval group has the ‘chero; we AMCers have the Cowboy). Don’t know anything about who built this one, though.
* We’ve learned to tolerate the majority of the posts at BigLorryBlog about modern haulers and other big trucks, if only because some great vintage stuff pops up from time to time, such as his photographic tour of the trucks in Surrey’s Brooklands Museum, including the above Thornycraft six-wheel-drive, straight-eight aircraft crash response truck.
Or, for example, his post on Bugatti’s proposed, but never built, logging truck. Now wouldn’t that have put those revival Bugattis from the ’90s in a different light?
Or, to continue, his post on the Pacific Intermountain Express prototype cabover tractor.
* Finally, one from this morning. In Communist Poland in the 1960s, farmers apparently couldn’t obtain new tractors, so they had to improvise using whatever materials they could get their hands on. A recent art exhibition takes a look at some of those improvised machines that still work the land today. (via)
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