Since I posted that photo of Ray Russell’s Gadabout, I’ve been thinking about a similarly shaped and similarly sized homebuilt roadster that, like the Little Jewel, ran in the Lost and Found column in Hemmings Classic Car a few years back but never garnered a response.
Back in January 2007, Bob Werner sent me these photos […]
Reading the story of the troubles Bill Hill had in identifying and researching the Albatross, Peter Arno’s Mercury-chassised one-off swoopster, one can’t help but wonder how differently the search would have turned out if Hill had the Internet at his disposal. Sure, there’s even a Wikipedia page on the Albatross nowadays, but the page doubts […]
* Over at Crank and Piston, where much of the content is focused on the Middle Eastern car scene, they recently reflected upon the Herbert Hesselmann photos of Michael Dovaz’s “collection.” C&P wonders what other barn finds are still out there, but we got to wondering where all these cars are now.
* I don’t really […]