Everybody’s gotta start out somewhere. Martin Carl Fischer, born in 1866 and a native of Zürich, Switzerland, was already a trained and accomplished watchmaker when the automobile became less of a tinkerer’s delight and more of an actual conveyance. Yet as the size of the automobile quickly ballooned in the years following the turn of […]
When did Corvair development stop? Before Richard Langworth’s article on the topic in SIA #68, April 1982, many people considered that date to be sometime in 1965, just before the second generation ‘Vair was released. But with a bevy of documentation on a series of sketches, renderings and clays, all provided by Chuck Jordan (along […]
* New Audi ad. Features hot rods. Despite reading the admen jibber-jabber about the spot, I still don’t get it. (via)
* The Iron Curtain-era Polish car manufacturer FSO had a pretty good gig going on building GAZes, Polskis and Polish Fiats, two-stroking their way to Communist ecstasy, but one worker got a little uppity and […]