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Four-Links – RIP Bill Tritt, traffic signals galore, Martians on Vespas, Pontiac Phantom

Written by webmin

* News came to us through our friend Geoff Hacker that fiberglass pioneer Bill Tritt died last week at age 93. * After this week’s post on the Iowa Highway System, circa 1960, we came across Caution Optional, Ed T.’s blog on traffic signals and the enthusiasts who collect them. * Martians on Vespas? Will […]

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Tagged automobilia, Bill Mitchell, Bill Tritt, dream cars, show cars and prototypes, Ford Model T, Forgotten Fiberglass, Glasspar, Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car, ice autos, motorcycles and scooters, one-offs and homebuilts, personalities, Pontiac, Pontiac Phantom, road trips and cruising, snowmobiles, traffic signals, Vespa  
 

A Big Return

Written by webmin

We got some immediate and grateful response from readers to the recent story in Hemmings Muscle Machines, illustrated with the photography of Mike Sopko, on bygone drag racing at U.S. 30 Dragway outside Gary, Indiana. (HMM #90, March 2011). Hands down, the craziest car in that story was No Big Thing, a tiny Vespa sedan […]

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Tagged Chevrolet big-block V-8, Hemmings Daily, Hemmings Muscle Machines, No Big Thing, racing, U.S. 30 Dragway, Vespa, Vespa 400  
 

El Mirage Conditions Uncooperative but Scooter Land Speed Records Established Anyway

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Because of the closure of the El Mirage Dry Lakes by the Bureau of Land Management, the inaugural US Motor Scooter Land Speed Trials had to be relocated to Route 66 in Devore, California, at the 11th hour. The weather was not cooperative there either; that, and the late change in venue probably kept at […]

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Tagged Bonneville/land-speed racing, Hemmings Daily, Motor Scooter International Land-Speed Federation, Motor Scooter Land Speed Trials, motorcycles and scooters, Salsbury, Vespa, Yamaha  
 

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