Hemmings Find of the Day – 1951 Crosley fire truck

And it begins. Actually, after a Crosley fire truck (not this one) sold for $100,000 at Barrett-Jackson a couple months ago, I expected more Crosley fire trucks to come out of the woodwork than just this 1951 example currently for sale on Hemmings.com, offered for $35,000 out of Los Angeles. From the seller’s description:
1951 Crosley […]

March Military Campaign – 1971 M561 Gama Goat

Quite coincidentally, while we were putting together the recent Four-Links post featuring the AGL-1, a Gama Goat predecessor, reader Steve Donohue from Port Clinton, Ohio, had come across a Gama Goat in the flesh at one of the local marinas and sent us some pictures. From the information he attached, we see that this particular […]

SIA Flashback – Model Race Cars

We’ve taken a look at tether cars (“tethered cars,” spindizzies, whatever you’d like to call them) before, and as it turns out, so did Special Interest Autos, nearly 30 years ago, when Stan Grayson chronicled the renewed interest in such cars for SIA #65, October 1981. I wonder how many of those collectors mentioned in […]