This makes two eccentric engineers/inventors who chose Cadillacs as the basis of their rolling laboratory experiments. However, unlike Louie Mattar and his throw-every-gadget-at-it 1947 Cadillac, Henry Struck’s 1930 Cadillac V-16 looks stock from the outside and exhibits a more methodical approach to refining the automobile as we know it. As William Locke related in SIA […]
The Seventies appear to have been a great time for DIY because it appears DIYers never had any idea they couldn’t do something. Cracked block or head? I’ll just weld it up. But it’s made of cast-iron? Okay, so I’ll weld it up at face-melting temperatures. Dave Emanuel showed us how race engine builder Al […]
When the Recreational Vehicle Industry Association celebrated the centennial of the motorhome earlier this year, the history they provided seemed rather thin. I would’ve rather read a history more like the one Ray I. Scroggins wrote for SIA #77, October 1983, which starts with the Model T-based conversions and ran all the way through to […]