Cats that Walk on Snow

The Tucker Sno-Cat is a fairly unique and easily identifiable vehicle, but one which we’ve not really read much about until recently, when we added the January 1957 issue of Mechanix Illustrated to our growing collection of MI issues. In that issue, we not only find a flight-of-fancy story on interchangeable bodies for cars (which Ryan at the Jalopy Journal highlighted last year), but also a four-pager on the history of the Tucker Sno-Cat, the invention of Emmitt Tucker. All good inventors are named Emmitt, right?

In the same issue, we also see a one-pager on a custom-built fiberglass car built by electrician Ken Mace. Anybody know where this car is today? Pretty much all we’ve seen on it so far is a random listing in an old race newsletter that refers to the car in a November 1955 race as a “Wildfire Cad” – it DNF’d.

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