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Four-Links – Virgo, pedestrian strainer, retro ads, sidecar sailing

Written by webmin

* Can’t decide between a dune buggy and a sports car? Back in 1970, Beau Hickory had the ideal solution, and he called it the Virgo. Geoff Hacker at Forgotten Fiberglass has the story on the dual-purpose machine. * Use for a Ford flathead V-8, No. 45,607: Connect it to a propeller and scoot around […]

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Tagged Beau Hickory, Clifford Robins, Duesenberg, dune buggies, factories, flathead Ford V-8, Forgotten Fiberglass, Fred Roe, Hemmings Classic Car, motorcycles and scooters, Peter Helck, sidecar sailing, three-wheelers, vintage ads, Virgo, windwagon  
 

Four-Links – Rip van Winkle Studebaker, NHTSA holding on to airbag Impala, Ford’s factories, Northwest microcar show

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* Todd Lappin, writing at Bernalwood, posted some pics this week of a 1939 Studebaker rolling out of the garage it’s inhabited for the last 45 years. * According to WSBTV.com, the NHTSA (“using YOUR tax dollars!”) owns and maintains the last of the 1973 Chevrolet Impalas fitted with airbags, ostensibly the first American passenger […]

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Tagged airbags, barn finds, Can-Am, Chevrolet Impala, dream cars, show cars and prototypes, factories, ford, Ford Mustang, Great Pacific Northwest Mini and Microcar Meet, Hemmings Classic Car, Hemmings Muscle Machines, Mercury Cougar, microcars and minicars, NHTSA, racing, River Rouge, shows, exhibitions and events, studebaker, Subaru, Subaru Sambar, Watkins Glen  
 

Four-Links – rally Falcons, DeSoto plant demolished, Montlhery, Moskvitch restored

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* Speedhunters this week posted a great collection of photos of Holman-Moody-modified V-8 Ford Falcons used in European rallies in the mid-1960s. * No, that’s not yet another pic of a tornado-ravaged town in the Midwest. Instead, it comes from The Detroit Bureau’s report on the demolishing of the DeSoto plant on Wyoming Avenue between […]

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Tagged Chevrolet, Chevrolet Corvette, Chevrolet Corvette C5-R, demolishing automobile factories, DeSoto, Detroit, factories, ford, Ford Falcon, Hemmings Classic Car, Hemmings Muscle Machines, Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car, Holman-Moody, Le Mans, Montlhery, Montlhery Vintage Revival, Moskvitch, Moskvitch 403, racing, rally racing, restorations, Russian vehicles, shows, exhibitions and events  
 

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