SIA Flashback – Home is Where You Park It

When the Recreational Vehicle Industry Association celebrated the centennial of the motorhome earlier this year, the history they provided seemed rather thin. I would’ve rather read a history more like the one Ray I. Scroggins wrote for SIA #77, October 1983, which starts with the Model T-based conversions and ran all the way through to […]

Besasie’s bodacious blast – the 130 MPH Excalibur kart

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 […]

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1982 Excalibur Series IV

In today’s SIA Flashback, Langworth mentions Brooks Stevens’s Excalibur neoclassic, one of which just so happened to recently pop up on Hemmings.com. This 1982 Excalibur Series IV also just so happens to come from the same year of Langworth’s SIA article. From the seller’s description:
Finished in classic and desired Arctic White and Deep Red leather […]