Wendler’s woeful Maico 500 Sport prototype

Earlier this year, we investigated a rather good-looking car that appeared in a photo submitted to us by Greg Steinmayer and discovered that it was a Beutler-bodied Maico 500 Sport prototype that unfortunately never made its way into production. Peter Svilians, who provided the answer, also made mention of a Wendler-bodied Maico 500 Sport prototype […]

Hemmings Find of the Day – Badsey Bullet prototype

Hm. If we weren’t really paying attention, we might have overlooked this ad for the Badsey Bullet prototype, due to the C5 Corvette photo mistakenly uploaded in place of any photo of the Bullet itself. We checked the website for McCormick’s Palm Springs auction next weekend and confirmed that the Bullet will indeed cross the […]

SIA Flashback – Dollars at Your Doorstep

There’s quite possibly a fascinating treatise to be written on the implications of a mobile banking facility: the use of technology, in this case the automobile, to overcome a societal need; or perhaps the fluidity and expansion of commerce in the early decades of the 20th Century. However, these do nothing to make the idea […]