Received word that All-American Metals in Bertram, Texas, will soon start crushing its inventory of old cars. If it seems like we’ve heard about a lot of these lately (northern Connecticut; Sturbridge, Massachusetts; Columbia, South Carolina), it’s because we have. Developers across the country are constantly expanding out away from urban areas, into the natural […]
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Henry Ford was many things to many people, but the thing I most admire about him (besides his great baseball swing, apparently) was his straightforwardness. Would you see anything like the picture above today? Would you ever see Tom LaSorda or Rick Wagoner taking an axe to their products to demonstrate the product’s resiliency?
Sixty-five years […]
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The Nova snowmobile and the Metro-Sled were no mere flukes. Decades before, Model T owners in the Snow Belt of North America, convinced their Ts could do anything, including milking the cows and animal husbandry, converted their rides into sleds. Fortunately, they had assistance from a kit developed by Virgil D. White, of West Ossipee, […]
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This one’s been floating around for more than a year, but with the Nova snowmobile and the snowed-in cars that we’ve featured recently, I couldn’t go without posting the Metro-Sled, as its unnamed builder christened it. He took a 1957 Nash Metropolitan, added a rear-mounted 1998 Yamaha three-cylinder 700 SRX snowmobile engine, twin Polaris tracks […]
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Just got a nice note from a reader about the driveReport on the 1961 Fury that was in the June issue of Classic Car. He wondered about the resemblance between the Fury and the Type 34 Karmann Ghia that followed it by a year.
Lots of people have concluded that Ghia’s design for the more familiar […]
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