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 […]
When we last heard from Jeff Teague, he had just finished the AMX/4 clay model that finally put into physical form his idea of what a modern-day evolution of his father’s AMX/3 would have looked like. Years back, we also saw his take on a modern-day Duesenberg, and now Jeff has revisited those ideas in […]
Frustrated Automotive Tinkerer Hall of Fame candidate No. 347: Alfred Raymond “Ray” Russell of Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan.
In 1942, while the rest of the automotive world geared up for the production of war machines, and while every other backyard tinkerer spent his time dreaming up novel ways of defeating the Axis, Ray Russell set out […]