A few months ago, in the Lost and Found pages of Hemmings Classic Car, we began the hunt for the remaining Mechanix Illustrated Specials, a type of do-it-yourself car that capitalized on the late 1940s/early 1950s sport-special craze, but which combined elements of early kit car building, hot rodding and junkyard digging. Mechanix Illustrated offered […]
Who doesn’t love the story of a frustrated inventor? In the case of Don Butler’s article in SIA #69, June 1982, the frustrated inventor is Charles F. Jaeger Sr., who turned his attention (as many inventors eventually do) to automobiles. Rather than focus on one specific aspect of the automobile, Jaeger decided to go into […]
Anybody who’s trawled the Internet for modified Volkswagen photos has by now seen the Beetle limousine type, made by merging two Volkswagens end-to-end. But a Herbie Beetle limousine, like this 1964 Beetle? Next I want to see a Herbie Baja Bug, then maybe a Heb stretched out like this. Are you listening, Internet? From the […]