Sunday, June 30, 2024

Mystery combo

I have no idea what this vehicle is. Is it a custom made transporter for the boat or is it a custom motor home?
 

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

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.
 

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


If you like your vehicles made of wood then the Hustler Hellcat might be just what you are looking for. Read the story at Petrolblog.

Wednesday, June 19, 2024

Monday, June 17, 2024

Sunday, June 16, 2024

DAF Rijdende Regenjas



Hubert Van Doorn (founder of the DAF car company) created this car in 1941-2. He thought it had potential because it was only 80cm wide which meant it would fit through most doorways and could be stored in the hallway. It never went into production and in 1947 he gave it to a circus where it was used by two clowns in their performances. It was later returned to the company and it was placed in their museum. More pictures here.
 

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

Shadi 2000

Apparently there were seven of these body kits made to fit a 90's Chevy 1500 Crewcab


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.


Saturday, June 8, 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.


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 South Bend, Indiana, and a 1/4 scale model was sent to Boano to build the car.

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 Paris for display.  It did not attract much attention.

Lowey had a residence in Paris and used the car there before shipping home to New York in 1956.  In 1957 he was persuaded to part with the car and sold it to Archie Moore, the light heavyweight boxing champion.

Additional images and information available 
here.

Colorful choir


 

Sunday, June 2, 2024