Carbon fiber is today’s wonder material, lighter and stronger than its equivalent in metal or fiberglass. It’s no surprise that this expensive, complex substance is extensively used in race cars and ultra-performance sports cars. Lamborghini uses carbon fiber to keep the weight of its all-wheel drive, 561hp V-10-powered Gallardo LP570-4 Superleggera down to a comparably […]

Late in my teenage years, I’d formulated a plan with my father: We’d get the biggest truck and trailer we could without going to truck driver’s school, and then we’d ramble around out West and down South, picking up old cars and trucks that hadn’t rotted to the rooftops. Had we done that, and had […]

Since I posted that photo of Ray Russell’s Gadabout, I’ve been thinking about a similarly shaped and similarly sized homebuilt roadster that, like the Little Jewel, ran in the Lost and Found column in Hemmings Classic Car a few years back but never garnered a response.
Back in January 2007, Bob Werner sent me these photos […]