Hard to believe that when Arch Brown wrote this article on the Volvo PV544 for SIA #85, February 1985, the featured car was just a couple dozen years old. For some perspective, that’d be the same as HCC writing a story about the first Ford Taurus nowadays. Then again, as Brown elaborates, the 1961 PV544 […]

A couple years ago, we linked to the one-horse open sleigh that Bart Stephens Stevens (aka Speedrome) built from discarded and unusable Model T parts. Well, what’s a Christmas sleigh without Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer to lead it? So Bart went back to work last year on a Rudolph, made from four pistons, a bulk […]

‘Twas the night before Christmas; I quietly lay, And listened for hoofbeats, And Santa Claus’ sleigh. Then without any warning The jolly old fellow Slipped in through my doorway, And chuckled, “Why hello!” “How happens it, Santa, I heard no sleigh bell? I asked very softly–the while the rest snored. He whispered, “Don’t tell– But […]