Four-eyed ’54? The mystery deepens

When we came across the 1956 Cadillac Eldorado with quad headlamps last month, we were mighty surprised to see said headlamp arrangement on a car from the model year prior to the introduction of the production version Eldorado Brougham. Norwegian Roger Malmedal, however, recently surprised us again with what appears to be a factory-built quad-headlamp […]

A real Orphan Baby: the Griffin three-wheelers

In the January 2011 issue of Hemmings Classic Car, which should be hitting mailboxes and newsstands shortly, I reviewed Robert Cunningham’s “Orphan Babies: America’s Forgotten Economy Cars, Volume 2,” an excellent and comprehensive followup to his first volume of research into the sorts of cars that usually got relegated to the one-liner notes and oddity […]

Whitey Thuesen and the Crosley V-8

Photo courtesy Ron Cummings Ever since the mention of a mysterious Crosley V-8 engine a few years ago sent me off in search of the elusive wee beast, I’ve come up with information on exactly one such configured Crosley-based engine, and it wasn’t the one I’ve been looking for. Then, a few months ago, Ron […]