April 20, 2010

A little puzzling

BlogBy webmin April 20, 2010

Last year, we were loaned some uncategorized photos from the onetime archives of Speed Age magazine, which was published through the 1950s in Washington, D.C. Here’s one of them. Help us figure out what it is.

Based on some other banquet-type photos in the bunch, we’re speculating that this may have been shot at some sort […]

Plywood cars and hydraulic drive – the wartime cars of Ray Russell

BlogBy webmin April 20, 2010

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 […]