Turbine-powered oddities, No. 467: American-LaFrance

Inspired by Jim Donnelly’s recent profile of Chrysler turbine pioneer George Huebner in the October 2010 issue of Hemmings Classic Car, Dave Collins thought we’d like to know about a very unique turbine-powered vehicle he personally had some experience with: a 1961 American-LaFrance pumper truck. Dave recalls that it was one of three that American-LaFrance […]

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1909 Walker Model 15

Back when urban delivery trucks used electric motors to power them around town rather than gasoline engines, Walker was one of the stalwarts of the niche with box trucks like this 1909 Walker Model 15 headed to RM’s Hershey auction. Looking more like a railroad car untethered from the train, we’re surprised nobody’s yet lettered […]

Found: NASA’s Stirling-engined Dodge D-150

For a while after we looked up the history of Stirling-engined AMCs last year, we followed several leads looking for the actual cars used for those tests, but to no avail. Fortunately, John Corey, who worked on the team that studied automotive Stirling engines for NASA, recently came across that post and in the ensuing […]