From three-wheeled trucks to Model T tanks

We’ve seen several snowmobiles built out of Model Ts around these parts – it’s rather a favorite topic of ours – so we were all over the photo David Greenlees recently posted to the excellent thread full of pre-World War II photos on the H.A.M.B. Rather than extend an endless tread over the rear wheels […]

Lost and Found Redux – Charles’s Crazy Crosley

Since I posted that photo of Ray Russell’s Gadabout, I’ve been thinking about a similarly shaped and similarly sized homebuilt roadster that, like the Little Jewel, ran in the Lost and Found column in Hemmings Classic Car a few years back but never garnered a response.
Back in January 2007, Bob Werner sent me these photos […]

Found: John Bond’s Byers SR100 and a mystery Byers

As long as I’ve known Geoff Hacker, I’ve been amazed at both his dedication to fiberglass cars from the 1950s and his ability to sniff them out, as if his nose is finely tuned to the odors of half-century-old resin and fiberglass dust. From his trip to Southern California earlier this month, Geoff filed this […]