Sunday, June 30, 2024
Mystery combo
Saturday, June 29, 2024
1957 Wartburg 313
Produced in East Germany the Wartburg was powered by a three cylinder 2 cycle engine with a horsepower rating of 50.
Friday, June 28, 2024
Thursday, June 27, 2024
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
1960 Biscuter 200C Comercial
Manufactured by Autonacional S.A. in Barcelona, Spain the 200c was powered by a one cylinder 2 stroke engine with a displacement of 197cc that was rated at 9 horsepower.
Monday, June 24, 2024
Sunday, June 23, 2024
Tower Trike
The Tower Trike is promoted as the largest motorcycle in the world. I believe it is more accurately described as the largest three wheeled truck in the world.
They are equipped with a refurbished driveline that includes an 11 liter supercharged turbocharged diesel that produces 350hp, and an Allison automatic transmission. It has air brakes and a 55 gallon fuel tank.
Additional information at towertrikes.com.
Saturday, June 22, 2024
1958 WFM Fafik Puppy
The Fafik Puppy was powered by a 148cc engine from an OSA M50 motor scooter. Top speed was 40mph (60km/h) and achieved about 60 miles (100km) on a gallon (4l) of gasoline. It carried three people. Only three examples were ever produced.
Friday, June 21, 2024
1960 Mazda R360
The R360 was Mazda's first automobile and was produced for six years. It was available with either a two speed automatic or a 4-speed manual transmission. It was powered by a rear mounted V-twin engine that displaced 356cc and had a top speed of 52mph (84km/h)
Thursday, June 20, 2024
Hustler Hellcat
Wednesday, June 19, 2024
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
Monday, June 17, 2024
Sunday, June 16, 2024
DAF Rijdende Regenjas
Saturday, June 15, 2024
The Tango by Commuter Cars
This electric commuter car has a 0-60mph time of four seconds. It has a roll cage but is reported as almost impossible to roll over and it has a four point safety harness. If you have a couple of hundred thousand dollars you can have on for your garage. Visit the company's website at commutercars.com for more information.
Friday, June 14, 2024
1958-65 Auto Union 1000 Special
Produced by the German company that eventually became Audi the 1000 Special was a Ford Thunderbird look alike that was powered by a 54 hp. three cylinder 2 stroke engine made by DKW.
Thursday, June 13, 2024
Renha Formigao
The Renha Formigao was made in Brazil. It was placed on a Volkswagen Beetle chassis using the 1.6 liter engine. Read more of the Renha story here.
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
Driver's lucky day
This accident occurred on I5 in Washington in November of 2021. The driver of the car was trapped until a crane could be dispatched to lift the truck off of the Nissen Altima. The driver escaped with minor injuries. Read the news article here.
Monday, June 10, 2024
Excess inventory
There are almost 50,000 Teslas caught up in the overall slump in EV sales. Read about it at jalopnik.com.
Sunday, June 9, 2024
Saturday, June 8, 2024
Friday, June 7, 2024
Thursday, June 6, 2024
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
Volvo 264 TE Landaulet
Used by the East German Politboro. Apparently Swedish cars were acceptable because it was a neutral nation.
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
Monday, June 3, 2024
Loewy Jaguar
This car was designed by Raymond Loewy. Loewy is known
in the automotive world mostly for his work with Studebaker. In 1954 he
teamed up with Ferrari to do a design study for the Ferrari Europa. The car was
designed in
When Pinnifarina got wind of the
project he complained to Enzo Ferrari about the relationship with Loewy.
Ferrari decided it was more important to maintain his relationship with
Pinnifarina than to proceed with the Loewy designed car.
Loewy did not want to give up on the car.
He purchased a Jaguar XK140 and stripped it to the chassis. Minor
changes were made to put the car together on the Jaguar chassis and Loewy took
it to
Lowey had a residence in
Additional images and information
available here.