Most car people familiar with the Besasie clan of Milwaukee probably know of them in connection with designer Brooks Stevens. Ray Besasie Sr. had been Stevens’ personal mechanic since 1940, Joe Besasie designed a number of concepts for Stevens – including the Excalibur – and Ray Besasie Jr. built and raced cars for Stevens (as […]
After we published the photos of the four AMC Project IV concept cars a couple of weeks ago, we realized that we had earlier received a small collection of photos from David Greenlees documenting a variety of clay mockups for a post-second-generation AMC Javelin. As we see from Chris Zinn’s Iconografix book on the Javelin, […]
Enduring Automotive History Myths, No. 467 and 467a: Electric cars, while popular around the dawn of the automotive age, were quickly abandoned when the invention of the electric self-starter prompted the widespread adoption of internal combustion. They have only been recently reconsidered as a viable means of transportation. Gasoline-electric hybrids were similarly abandoned after Dr. […]