* Looks like a pancaked  Porsche 356, dunnit? Close, kinda. Andy Rupert over at the High Maintenance blog chose this little Austrian air-cooled rear-engined sports car (no, I said it’s not a Porsche) for his 50th mystery car recently, and he chose a good stumper at that. To find out what it is and to get a brief history of it, head on over to Andy’s site.
* It was kind of a shoutout from Robert McClellan in his latest newsletter, and it came in a nifty article on Ford truck and van literature - with examples - dating all the way back to 1933. And we dig that he included literature all the way through the 1970s. Dig the boogie vans from ‘77 and ‘78!
* Our pals at BigLorryBlog recently popped up a few photos from the Sydney truck and Bus Museum, including this large truck converted into a people hauler in a rather unusual method: by simply building a semi-trailer to handle the bus duties. That then led the guys to post up a pic of Cuba’s infamous Camels, a far less graceful version, and later, a Magirus Deutz and a few other Australian buses set up the same way.
* And finally, a photo from Shorpy, depicting the Miss America contestant from Washington, D.C., for 1924, sitting in a vehicle that Anheuser-Busch used to promote the company’s beverages during Prohibition. I know I saw something similar at the Auburn Kruse auction back in 2004, but for some reason I didn’t investigate the one I saw. There seems little consensus among the Shorpy commenters as to the origins of this Anheuser-Busch car.
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