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Friday, June 3, 2011

The only time Super Sport was ever applied to a corvette, thanks to Zora Arkus Duntov

The Bill Mitchell and Zora Duntov vettes. Unique beasts

Build it yourself, the Jack Karleskind way. 1970 Cyclone Cobra Jet Spoiler Ranchero

This is also in the article in Hemmings Muscle Machines Apr 2008 isue with the yellow Cyclone Spoiler convertible you'll see following this post.

Or click here : http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2441742 for a great gallery and specs

Trivia bit: These 429CJs came from the Ford assembly line with GM carbs. According to the Hemmings article, page 35.

Thursday, June 2, 2011

The coolest unique custom ideas

I love the piston tail-light, that is a first. Damn, I would love to see a set of these on a rat rod
Via: http://thenewcaferacersociety.blogspot.com/

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

More about the Megola, 5 cylinder radial engine front wheel drive cycle

This one was found in a basement in New Hyde Park New Jersey, where it had been for decades, and they bough tit for 100 dollars. It took 7 years to restore

It looks like there is a lot on the web about it: http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&rlz=1T4GGLL_enUS326US327&q=megola&um=1&resnum=5&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

One is in a Swiss Museum, the collection of Joe Hilti, for the eye candy large format up close hi res hi def in color:http://gespannreise.regina-vetter.ch/wp-content/uploads/megola1b-1024x768.jpg

Survival of the innovator. A broken 2CV, no welder, no power tools, and Emil Leray made a motorcycle while stranded in the Moroccan desert, in 12 days

Photos of Daniel Denis of 2CV magazine and full story in http://chameaudacier.free.fr/moto1.html

Via: http://thenewcaferacersociety.blogspot.com/2009/09/our-favorite-hero-emil-leray.html

1909 Sultan Landaulet town car and taximeter, oddly, one has the driver covered but the other has the passengers covered. Undecided designers?

I suppose there was a market for each, but it's a very odd juxtapositon of the roof on the one manufacturer's cars

Hot rod Citreon 2CV.. where did this come from? it's a paradigm breaker!

Via: http://www.davintosh.com/2008/02/16/citroen-2cv-rat-rod/

Can't find out any facts about it on the internet.

Bizarre stuff

1939 antarctic special cruiser

Ron Elizada with a 1962 Willys zip van, after a tour as a mail delivery van in Anaheim in 1974.

the 1956 Dodge La Femme

the Futureliner exhibit and rolling display bus

1946 Detroit golden Jubilee Buick parade float

Via: http://svammelsurium.blogg.se/

First American car transporter?

From http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=499900 via: http://chromjuwelen.tumblr.com

A variety of cool vehicles and stuff I wanted to show you that I got from Svammelsurium.blogg.se

1939 Labourdette Rolls Royce Phantom

1969 Mercury Cyclone Gt 500 ( it's the first and only time I've ever heard of it)

A Divco dairy truck from Garden Grove

the ELC10 made by GM in Stockholm during WW2, electric powered

Good looking to me, and one of the later Edsels. Already doomed by the first run, but they did get a couple good looking designs before they were killed off. Marten commented that the 1960 Edsel is one of only 76 convertibles produced, supposedly the only one outside US.

Very cool instrument cluster and steering wheel design, in a Panhard Dyna Z1, a very exciting car built in all aluminum.

Via: http://svammelsurium.blogg.se/ is the blog of Marten, who commented that the electric three wheeler was labeled model ELC10. General Motors Nordiska is name the scandinavian GM branch in Stockholm that built these during wartime, when all other civilian production was halted. They also built a couple of electric truck prototypes. Rrad the comments for Marten's unabridged writing.

Thanks for the corrections and aditional information Marten! I believe you must be the Svammelsurium.blogg website, and I compliment your extensive coverage of cool automotive stuff! Great blog!

Once there was a guy who lost his mind and tried to make a car that was the safest thing on the road... and this is how ridiculous it ended up looking

1956-57 Cornell Aurora and Liberty safety cars

Via: http://svammelsurium.blogg.se/

they only made one, the 1906 Pungs Finch

Above via: http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/gallery/13142/Pungs-Finch-Finch-Limited-Touring.html

Discovered by Long Island Auto Museum owner Henry Austin Clark Jr, it is possibly the earliest hemi combustion design, and was Guaranteed to do 55 mph... that is remarkable for 1906. It was a nearly 650 cu in engine, and 4 cylinders.