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Turbine-powered oddities, No. 466: the see-through Kenworth-Boeing

Written by webmin

The theoretical advantage to gas turbines, besides their ability to swallow up a wide range of fuels, is their relative lightness and compactness compared to other internal combustion engines (gasoline, diesel) of the same output. Boeing decided to illustrate that advantage with this press photo we recently scrounged up, dated April 10, 1950, showing one […]

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Tagged alt-power cars, Boeing, dream cars, show cars and prototypes, gas turbine, Kenworth, Lost and Found, trucks and Jeeps  
 

SIA Flashback – Diamond-T in the Rough

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The immediate post-war years brought a lot of unique automotive ideas to the forefront, and the major auto and truck manufacturers were far from immune to the trend, as we see from Thomas B. Garrett’s article in SIA #95, October 1986 on the woodie station wagon prototype that Diamond-T built in 1946 and that hasn’t […]

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Tagged Diamond T, dream cars, show cars and prototypes, SIA Flashback, station wagons, woodies  
 

Four-Links – Corvettes and astronauts, Italdesign’s designs, Riker resurrection, Fast Five’s Scouts

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* As the Corvette Blog and Jalopnik reported this week, Thursday was the 50th anniversary of Alan Shepard’s spaceflight. To commemorate the event, about 30 surviving astronauts will gather in Florida today for a parade, and they will be driven in at least one Corvette from each generation of the model to celebrate the long-standing […]

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Tagged Alfa Romeo Iguana, alt-power cars, astronauts, Chevrolet, Chevrolet Corvette, dream cars, show cars and prototypes, Electric cars, Fast Five, Hemmings Classic Car, Hemmings Muscle Machines, Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car, IH, IH Scout, International Harvester, International Harvester Scout, Italdesign, Italdesign Iguana, restomods, restorations, Riker, shows, exhibitions and events, station wagons, trucks and Jeeps, TV and film cars, two-tone, Wartburg, Wartburg Camping  
 

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