We’ve seen some unique variations on the Crosley engine before, many of them post-1952, but they’ve all somehow fit into the known Crosley engine family tree. And they’ve all followed the typical Otto cycle four-stroke design. But now Jim Bollman has found evidence of another Crosley-based engine, but one that’s a total misfit: a Bendix-built […]
One of the requests for the March Military Campaign that I fielded this year came from Myron Vernis, who asked if we’d yet written about the Mighty Mite. I searched our archives to find out that not only had we not written about it, but also that I was frequently confusing the Mighty Mite with […]
Inspired by our recent post on the Kaiser articulated aluminum/magnesium bus, frequent blog contributor Gene Herman sent us a couple photos of another Santa Fe Trailways bus made out of an unusual material: plywood. Gene writes:
Built out of plywood during WW II in Santa Fe’s Wichita, KS., shops to conserve valuable war materiel, the Victory […]