Over the last decade or so, we’ve seen quite a few homebuilt hot rods using quarter-elliptic springs. For a very light and simple vehicle, even semi-elliptics represent too much weight and complexity, and quarter-elliptics offer much lower axle location. Of course, nothing’s new under the sun, as we see from these photos sent in by […]
While going through some old boxes looking for the photos from yesterday’s post of vintage HMN ads, I came across this grouping of photos of an old junkyard. I couldn’t find mention of it anywhere in the August 1978 issue that yesterday’s photos came from, thus I wasn’t able to find any information on exactly […]
* Earlier this week, Ryan of the Jalopy Journal posted the above photo he bought down Mexico way of a very unusual hybrid of Cadillac, Lincoln and aircraft parts. It didn’t take much time at all for the H.A.M.B.sters to id the cockpit (Consolidated-Vultee BT-13 trainer) and post more photos of the Cadillinc, including some […]