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Four-Links – Vegas on end, Goddard at Land Rover, Barker, Bucciali

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* I’ve always read about how the Chevrolet Vega was built/designed to be shipped on its nose in special train cars from the factory, but I’d never seen any pictures of Vegas actually hanging, hamhock style, in train cars until I came across a few over at Rich Barstis’s blog.

* To help celebrate Land Rover’s […]

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Tagged Arthur Goddard, Barker engine, Bucciali, Chevrolet Vega, dream cars, show cars and prototypes, factories, Joan Newton Cuneo, Land Rover, one-offs and homebuilts, racing, trucks and Jeeps, Wilmington Vermont  
 

Streamlining, it’s all the rage

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For all the streamliners and teardroppers sketched out, put into clay and prototyped, very few successfully became the car of the future that they claimed to be. But they sure made for excellent copy for the newspapers and mechanics magazines of the day, and David Greenlees recently came across a small treasure trove of streamliners […]

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Tagged Alberto Gorgoni, convertibles, Dan LaLee, dream cars, show cars and prototypes, Edsel Ford, featured posts, Frank Spring, McQuay-Norris, personalities, promotional vehicles, raymond loewy, renderings and concept sketches, streamliners and teardroppers, Walter Dorwin Teague  
 

Four-Links – 500,000-mile Fiat, Claveau, Hudson home, electric car progress?

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* Sure, he’s far from catching up to Irv Gordon, but it’s no small feat to put 500,000 miles on a 1980 Fiat Bravo, as Gil Cormaci of La Cañada, California, has done. The818Now.com has more on the long-lived sedan. (Thanks for the tip, Michael!)

* In the history of streamlining and teardrop cars, you can’t […]

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Tagged alt-power cars, British cars, dream cars, show cars and prototypes, Electric cars, Emile Claveau, Fiat Bravo, Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car, Hudson, streamliners and teardroppers  
 

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