Quite coincidentally, given the recent SIA Flashback on Brooks Stevens, we recently heard from Dan Flanders of the Vintage Karting Archives regarding his Excalibur Formula Kart Experimental, a one-off kart designed by Stevens and built and raced by Roy Besasie Jr., the son of Stevens’s body builder. Dan wrote:
Ray Sr. formed the bodies for a […]

Where other, larger, funeral cars end up with funky profiles to fit the body style, this 1940 Ford appears to have a roofline lifted straight from its coupe and thus looks more organic than most Cadillac or Packard-based flower cars. Though, that begs the question makes one wonder: When this was new, who would have […]

Over the last decade or so, we’ve seen quite a few homebuilt hot rods using quarter-elliptic springs. For a very light and simple vehicle, even semi-elliptics represent too much weight and complexity, and quarter-elliptics offer much lower axle location. Of course, nothing’s new under the sun, as we see from these photos sent in by […]