Seventy-two years ago today, you could, given half a mind, drive up to the front entrance of the White House in your 1921 Model T, and baffle Capitol Police by demanding to see Henry Ford. “Where’s Henry?” shouted Ernest A. Franke, a 90-year-old retired baker, from the driver’s seat. “I want to show him his […]
Everybody’s gotta start out somewhere. Martin Carl Fischer, born in 1866 and a native of Zürich, Switzerland, was already a trained and accomplished watchmaker when the automobile became less of a tinkerer’s delight and more of an actual conveyance. Yet as the size of the automobile quickly ballooned in the years following the turn of […]
When did Corvair development stop? Before Richard Langworth’s article on the topic in SIA #68, April 1982, many people considered that date to be sometime in 1965, just before the second generation ‘Vair was released. But with a bevy of documentation on a series of sketches, renderings and clays, all provided by Chuck Jordan (along […]