Flying car, schmlying car. The good people over at Gibbs–makers of the Aquada swimming car thing–have landed themselves a fat contract with the US Government. In association with Lockheed-Martin, Gibbs will be developing–we kid you not–Aquadas, Humdingas and Quadskis (Why not crack open a cool, refreshing Gibbs Quadski today?) for military applications. They will, alas, […]
I mean, really geddon it?
When the US Army goes racing, they pay Tony Schumacher to slather brown and yellow stickers all over himself. When the Australian Department of Defense went racing, they hired Starr Performance (warning: mostly really crummy build pics) to take a vehicle iconic of Anglo armies worldwide, in this case a Land […]
Any Crosley devotee knows that the CoBra four-cylinder engine that powered the post-war Crosleys was essentially repurposed from its use in generators that provided many an Allied war unit with necessary electricity. But Powel Crosley tried to offer plenty more assistance in the war effort.
For example, Crosley built at least a couple different three-wheeled prototypes, […]
Better believe it - them Canucks aren’t as innocent as they seem. First, they build the awesomest four-wheeled military conveyance this side of the Unimog, the CMP, and now we see even more Canadian military kung fu.
Kit Foster sent along two additions to our military March campaign. First, above, the Iltis, a Volkswagen design built […]
Okay, it’s a little late in coming, but I hereby declare this month to be military March. Or at least this week.
Tom Wilson, of the Davis Registry, after perusing the military vehicles category, emailed to remind me that we hadn’t yet mentioned the Davis military vehicle, serial 494X1, that he and friends are restoring up […]
Old hovercrafts seem to be all the rage on teh Intarnet lately, with the guy from Finkbuilt posting several scans of the latest 1960 designs. One design he didn’t include was the Chrysler VZ-6 “flying jeep.”
The VZ series of hovercrafts were part of a military initiative started in 1957 to replace the jeep with something […]
Here’s a car-engined tank to balance out Strohl’s tank-engined car. The first to correctly identify the vehicle and its powerplant gets a swell prize (gotta be some of that holiday fruitcake left around here someplace). Should I give you a clue? Nah. No clues for you. Good luck.