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Blown, but for different reasons

Written by webmin

Over at The Old Motor, David Greenlees recently posted this mystery engine, unique in so many ways. First, it’s a three-cylinder, air-cooled engine, one that looks rather experimental, judging from its heavy pipe exhaust tubes. Notice also the finned chambers that seem to be separate from the fined cylinders. We can only offer haphazard guesses […]

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Tagged air-cooled, brass cars, dream cars, show cars and prototypes, Hemmings Classic Car, Lost and Found, Sturtevant  
 

Hemmings Finds of the Day – Corvans (and a Rampy)

Written by webmin

Though we have little background on the circumstances that led the Volo Auto Museum to purchase these four air-cooled Chevrolet utility vehicles, it’s probably safe to assume that they (along with a handful of Corvair passenger cars) came from the collection of a dedicated Corvair enthusiast who simply couldn’t get around to restoring them all. […]

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Tagged air-cooled, Chevrolet, Chevrolet Corvair, Chevrolet Corvan, Chevrolet Rampside, Hemmings Classic Car, Hemmings Find of the Day, trucks and Jeeps, vans  
 

SIA Flashback – The Greatest Franklin Never Built: 1932 Franklin V-12 “Super Merrimac” Phaeton

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Certainly one of the more subtle phantom cars in any corner of the collector car hobby would be Thomas Hubbard’s 1932 Franklin V-12 “Super Merrimac” phaeton, a car built according Franklin’s initial plans for a V-12-powered car, one that was significantly smaller than the V-12 Franklin that entered production. Unless you were steeped in Franklin […]

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Tagged air-cooled, dual-cowl phaeton, Franklin, Hemmings Classic Car, phantom cars, SIA Flashback, Thomas Hubbard, V-12  
 

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