Because of the closure of the El Mirage Dry Lakes by the Bureau of Land Management, the inaugural US Motor Scooter Land Speed Trials had to be relocated to Route 66 in Devore, California, at the 11th hour. The weather was not cooperative there either; that, and the late change in venue probably kept at […]

I couldn’t find out too much about this sale; I consider myself lucky to have come up with the flyer, frankly. Nor do I know much about Gary Kolthoff – he’s apparently in Iowa, and not reachable at his Missouri office. The elderly dear who took my address (so she could mail me the sale […]

Of the many unusual and innovative vehicles on display at the first Symposium on Low Pollution Power Systems Development in 1973 in Ann Arbor, Michigan,it appeared that just three were functional enough to provide rides around the parking lot for the besuited attendees. While two of those three came from General Motors, the third, the […]