I’m sure this 1947 Citroën Traction Avant has plenty of stories to tell, from being built in England for the French market (huh?) to somehow making it all the way to California and remaining in remarkably decent shape all these years. We can only hope that some of those stories involve the European gangsters who […]

Earlier this month, we reposted a photo from twin6 showing a wonderfully insane front-wheel-drive contraption from Rose City, Michigan, but couldn’t relate any more information than what was in the photo itself. However, reader Steve Donohoe actually knew somebody from Rose City, Michigan – Dean Coleman, the chief of police there – and Dean checked […]

Since first spotting the above photo submitted by twin6 to the H.A.M.B.’s incomparable Photos Taken Before WWII thread, I’ve been meaning to investigate Buford “Mad Dog” Tannen‘s front-wheel drive, negative-cambered contraption, but the caption scrawled onto the photo – “Rose’s Auto- Rose City, Mich.-Colbath Artist”  – doesn’t lead to any known automotive tinkerer. The only […]