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Hermosa Beach, California, 1966

Written by webmin

We’ll revisit the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Flickr stream – the same one on which we found the pictures of the Lear-built steam-powered buses – one more time this week for a Technicolor street scene, snapped April 1966 in Hermosa Beach, California. The LACMTA would like us to focus on the bus, but […]

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Tagged buses, Hemmings Classic Car, Hermosa Beach California, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, street scenes  
 

Gettin’ steamed on the bus

Written by webmin

In the year-plus since we discovered the photos of the first-ever Symposium on Low Pollution Power Systems Development, we’ve teased out more information on a couple of the attending vehicles: the McKee-built Sundancer and the GM 512-series micros. Next up, the Lear-built steam bus. While we only see evidence of one Lear steam bus, a […]

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Tagged alt-power cars, buses, dream cars, show cars and prototypes, Flxible, GMC, Lear, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, personalities, steam, steam-powered, William P. Lear  
 

Four-Links – Packard out of vault, Hillman Hustler, submarine bus fleet, Ron Washington’s Cadillac

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* Reader Larry Stookey sent us this story from the Toledo Blade last month regarding Jerry Brummett and the 1940 Packard Super Eight formal sedan he bought in the early 1960s. What makes the story remarkable is that Brummett got the Packard running, used it to haul around his motorcycles for a couple years, then […]

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Tagged Australian cars, buses, Cadillac, Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz, celebrity-owned cars, GM Coach, Hemmings Classic Car, Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car, Hillman, Hillman Hustler, London-to-Sydney, Los Angeles, packard, Packard Super Eight, racing, rally racing, restorations, road trips and cruising, Ron Washington, RTA Street Fleet, Texas Rangers  
 

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