* Josh over at the AMC Javelin Trans Am Registry just emailed us this week to let us know that the registry’s new website is up, and contains just about everything you need to know about the cars, including an interview with Ronnie Kaplan.
* Continuing his obsession with gas-turbine-powered trucks, Brian over at BLB recently […]
Quite coincidentally, given the recent SIA Flashback on Brooks Stevens, we recently heard from Dan Flanders of the Vintage Karting Archives regarding his Excalibur Formula Kart Experimental, a one-off kart designed by Stevens and built and raced by Roy Besasie Jr., the son of Stevens’s body builder. Dan wrote:
Ray Sr. formed the bodies for a […]
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 […]