SIA Flashback

SIA Flashback – Model Race Cars

BlogBy webmin March 21, 2010

We’ve taken a look at tether cars (“tethered cars,” spindizzies, whatever you’d like to call them) before, and as it turns out, so did Special Interest Autos, nearly 30 years ago, when Stan Grayson chronicled the renewed interest in such cars for SIA #65, October 1981. I wonder how many of those collectors mentioned in […]

SIA Flashback – Gas-Saving Gadgets and Gimmicks, Part 2

BlogBy webmin March 14, 2010

Where in part 1 of his story, Roy Ames outlined the various small-potatoes, back-of-the-magazine ways in which hucksters tried to sell fuel-saving devices, in part 2, from SIA #65, October 1981, Ames goes after the more well-known fuel-saving schemes, including Louis Enricht, the Fish carburetor and the Pogue carburetor. Under Ames’s analysis, only the latter […]