* 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 […]
While researching the plywood cars of Ray Russell last week, I came across another unique photo from the December 1945 issue of Popular Mechanics, reproduced above, showing a couple men from the 478th Air Service Squadron with their “streamlined Jeep,” the product of spare time, a wrecked Jeep and a couple crashed airplanes. “They made […]
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 […]