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SIA Flashback – 1949 Kaiser Traveler: America’s First Hatchback

Written by webmin

We may think of the recent focus on original, unrestored cars as a new development in the collector car world, but that’s just not the case, as we see from Randy Mason’s article on the Kaiser Traveler that he obtained for The Henry Ford Museum in SIA #87, June 1985. After a quick and dirty […]

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Tagged hatchback, Hemmings Classic Car, Kaiser, Kaiser Traveler, Kaiser-Frazer, SIA Flashback  
 

Four-Links – classics star in On the Road, Vinsetta Garage closes, Kaiser’s XJ002 Bolide, quad-engine Mustang

Written by webmin

*From Telstar Logistics comes a post with news that filming for a movie based on Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” was taking place in San Francisco this past week, and that a few streets of SF were lined with all sorts of immediate pre- and post-war cars. Looks like I’ll have to move that book […]

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Tagged Detroit, drag racing, dream cars, show cars and prototypes, ford, Ford Mustang, garages, Gary Weckesser, Hemmings Classic Car, Hemmings Muscle Machines, Jack Kerouac, Jeep, Jeep XJ-002, Jeep XJ-002 Bolide, junkyards and abandoned vehicles, Kaiser, Kaiser Jeep, Mach IV Mustang, On the Road, racing, San Francisco, trucks and Jeeps, TV and film cars, Vinsetta Garage, Woodward Avenue  
 

SIA Flashback – SIA Profile of Brooks Stevens

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Perhaps Richard Langworth’s tendency toward purple prose in this profile of Brooks Stevens in SIA #71, October 1982, is appropriate, given the picture he paints of the legendary designer: cordial, well-mannered, even elegant. The profile is no biography or compendium of Stevens’s designs (for that, turn to Glenn Adamson’s book, “Industrial Strength Design“), rather a […]

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Tagged Brooks Stevens, dream cars, show cars and prototypes, Excalibur J, Howard "Dutch" Darrin, Kaiser, one-offs and homebuilts, packard, replicas, resurrections and kit cars, SIA Flashback  
 

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