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Plywood cars and hydraulic drive – the wartime cars of Ray Russell

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Frustrated Automotive Tinkerer Hall of Fame candidate No. 347: Alfred Raymond “Ray” Russell of Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan.
In 1942, while the rest of the automotive world geared up for the production of war machines, and while every other backyard tinkerer spent his time dreaming up novel ways of defeating the Axis, Ray Russell set out […]

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Tagged Alfred R. Russell, alt-power cars, amphibious vehicles, featured posts, flying cars, hydraulic drive, microcars and minicars, one-offs and homebuilts, personalities, plastic car, plywood car, Raymond Russell, streamliners and teardroppers  
 

Four-Links – first Jeeps on the Rubicon, amphibious car catalog, radial-engined monster, Daytona Beach retrospective

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* Jeep’s corporate owners at Chrysler have plastered the Rubicon name all over recent Jeep products, and for good reason – the legendary off-road trail has been a proving ground for Jeeps since the Liddicoat family started crossing it in their Willys MBs in 1946. The Liddicoat family website has more, including photos of that […]

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Tagged amphibious vehicles, Daniel Strohl, Dauphin Ann Phibi, Daytona Beach Florida, factories, Fiat, Jeep, Liddicoat family, Lingotto, Monaco Trossi, motorhomes, racing, Rubicon Trail, shows, exhibitions and events, trucks and Jeeps, Willys  
 

March Military Campaign – 1971 M561 Gama Goat

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Quite coincidentally, while we were putting together the recent Four-Links post featuring the AGL-1, a Gama Goat predecessor, reader Steve Donohue from Port Clinton, Ohio, had come across a Gama Goat in the flesh at one of the local marinas and sent us some pictures. From the information he attached, we see that this particular […]

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Tagged amphibious vehicles, Daniel Strohl, Gama Goat, M561, military vehicles, Port Clinton Ohio, trucks and Jeeps  
 

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