As Prohibition ended in 1933 and as bootlegging began to become less profitable, gangsters began to seek new sources of revenue, often turning to bank robbing. Armed and armored cars thus became the rolling stock for these jobs, and it’s known that Capone used at least a couple Cadillacs in his trade. So, apparently, did […]
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 […]
Two years ago, Stephen O’Brien came to us with a photo of a fiberglass car that he owned while stationed at Williams Air Force Base in Phoenix, Arizona, in the mid-1950s, but never knew exactly what it was, noting the unique sidemount spare tire wells cut into the body, the dual-carburetor six-cylinder engine and the […]