* So you’ve got the wall of death, which is insane enough on a motorcycle, but you add a little more insanity by running it with a four-wheeled board track racer. Then you go completely off the deep end by building an angle-iron sidecar to your board track racer, stuffing YOUR PET LION into it and hitting the wall of death (oh, yeah, and helmetless). “Fearless” Egbert apparently thrilled crowds in such a fashion. And lest one believe ol’ Aslan there was fake, a photo postcard over at thewallofdeath.com seems to indicate otherwise.
* Kit Foster writes that our ongoing Lost AMC Dealership posts constitute “an important part of an underappreciated sub-culture, automotive archeology, the industrial and commercial remnants of our favorite industry.” I’d be happy enough with his fetish explanation as well. In either case, he examines - with exacting detail - the history of the former AMC dealership C&S Motors in New London, Connecticut. I’d certainly love to uncover this much information about each dealership on the list. (logo via)
* Another Four-Links post, another link to BigLorryBlog, this time a mystery truck that they believe may have started life as an airport tug. Either way, they’re not sure of the brand or of the purpose, though I’m going to guess that the carousel horses painted on the sides and the caboose-like trailer in the same fading red behind the truck indicate that the truck at one point pulled the trailer as part of some sort of traveling show.
* And finally, the Microcar and Minicar Club’s blog, Minutia, came across this radio Crosley (as opposed to a Crosley radio), similar to the one we found at Hershey a couple years ago. They noted that many radio stations across the country used Crosleys as mobile units in the same way today’s rock stations use Hummers as mobile units - to take the DJs and reporters to broadcast live from such-and-such location. We will thus join Minutia in putting out an APB for all mobile unit Crosleys.
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