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Your legs are the crumple zone; have a cigar

Written by webmin

Everybody’s gotta start out somewhere. Martin Carl Fischer, born in 1866 and a native of Zürich, Switzerland, was already a trained and accomplished watchmaker when the automobile became less of a tinkerer’s delight and more of an actual conveyance. Yet as the size of the automobile quickly ballooned in the years following the turn of […]

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Tagged dream cars, show cars and prototypes, featured posts, Fischer, Hemmings Classic Car, Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car, internal-gear transmission, Martin Fischer, microcars and minicars, personalities, slide-valve engine, Turicum  
 

SIA Flashback – Corvairs for the ’70s

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When did Corvair development stop? Before Richard Langworth’s article on the topic in SIA #68, April 1982, many people considered that date to be sometime in 1965, just before the second generation ‘Vair was released. But with a bevy of documentation on a series of sketches, renderings and clays, all provided by Chuck Jordan (along […]

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Tagged Chevrolet Corvair, Corvair II, dream cars, show cars and prototypes, GM Styling, Hemmings Classic Car, renderings and concept sketches, SIA Flashback, XP-849, XP-873, XP-892  
 

Four-Links – Audis and hot rods, Polish prototype pummeled, Saab-powered motorhomes, Mustang Life

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* New Audi ad. Features hot rods. Despite reading the admen jibber-jabber about the spot, I still don’t get it. (via)

* The Iron Curtain-era Polish car manufacturer FSO had a pretty good gig going on building GAZes, Polskis and Polish Fiats, two-stroking their way to Communist ecstasy, but one worker got a little uppity and […]

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Tagged audi, dream cars, show cars and prototypes, factories, fiberglass cars, FSO Syrena Sport, Hemmings Muscle Machines, Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car, hot rods and customs, jalopies, motorhomes, mustang, one-offs and homebuilts, renderings and concept sketches, Saab, Shelby, Shelby American, Torsten Johansson, trucks and Jeeps, videos  
 

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