hydraulic drive

Four-Links – shiny mystery truck, indoor drags, landspeed dump truck, another Raymond’s hydraulic drive car

BlogBy webmin November 6, 2010

* It’s been far too long since we checked in on our friends at BigLorryBlog, and what do we see up there this week but this fascinating Fageol-like mystery truck? The submitter claims it’s a McCullough Road King, which rings no bells with Brian, his commenters, or with us. Could it have been something Robert […]

Plywood cars and hydraulic drive – the wartime cars of Ray Russell

BlogBy webmin April 20, 2010

Frustrated Automotive Tinkerer Hall of Fame candidate No. 347: Alfred Raymond “Ray” Russell of Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan.
In 1942, while the rest of the automotive world geared up for the production of war machines, and while every other backyard tinkerer spent his time dreaming up novel ways of defeating the Axis, Ray Russell set out […]