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Four-Links – Bugs on ice, Screwball Confidential, Mikrus, 1980s car show

Written by webmin

* More fallout from researching the Antarctic Snow Cruiser and the first car in Antarctica. In the 1960s, the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition used a handful of bugs to crawl around the Antarctic ice. Heaters? We don’t need heaters! * One of our favorite artists around these parts, James Owens, has a pretty nifty […]

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Tagged Antarctica, automobilia, collector car values, Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car, IGA Automotive, James Owens, microcars and minicars, Mikrus, shows, exhibitions and events, studebaker, Studebaker Avanti, Volkswagen, Volkswagen Beetle  
 

Big Bertha’s predecessor, the first car in Antarctica

Written by webmin

While researching the Poulter-designed Snow Cruiser over the last couple of weeks, I came across mention of another car that would be worth posting this chilly chilly morning (-18 degrees Fahrenheit on my way into work this morning!). Polar explorer Ernest Shackleton – he of the ill-fated Endurance expedition – had in 1907 set sail […]

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Tagged Antarctica, Arrol-Johnston, Bernard Day, Ernest Shackleton, Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car, Nimrod expedition, one-offs and homebuilts, publicity stunts, Sir William Beardmore, snowmobiles  
 

The Snow Cruiser in motion

Written by webmin

After reading Bob Lichty’s excellent story on the Poulter-designed Snow Cruiser built for Admiral Byrd’s third Antarctic expedition in this past weekend’s SIA Flashback, I went traipsing through the Internets to see if anybody had found the Snow Cruiser in the quarter century since the SIA article. Other than plenty of speculation regarding the fate […]

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Tagged Antarctica, Byrd's Big Bertha, one-offs and homebuilts, polar expedition, Snow Cruiser, Thomas C. Poulter, trucks and Jeeps, videos  
 

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