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I picked up a neat Hohner Echo Elite harmonica last week for a very reasonable price. I am not a professional but I can play a few tunes on a standard Marine Band model. The Echo Elite really caught my eye because it had a very familiar art deco style to it...
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So last week’s SIA Flashback focused on Autos by Architects and even mentioned Norman Bel Geddes, but didn’t focus on him. That’s probably because the automobiles he designed were worth an entire article on their own, which appeared in SIA #40, May-July 1977, written by Michael Lamm. Graham-Paige, Autocar, General Motors, Chrysler and Nash all [...]
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* Nash/AMC will forever be associated with Kenosha, Wisconsin, due to the assembly plant located there. Yet after the merger with Kelvinator, Nash’s headquarters moved to Detroit, and for a brief period of time, Nash/AMC actually had a second assembly plant in El Segundo, California, thus the naming of Nash Street just south of LAX. [...]
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Seems like our Electric Drag post a couple of weeks ago sparked a few memories. Ecomodder member MetroMPG saw our wagon, and remembered a photo on an elderly friend’s wall: Her mother in a 21-passenger electric sightseeing vehicle, c. 1901.
Green Car Sightseeing Service? Surely the word “green” in an electric context was coincidental, but still… According [...]
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It remains this way today - spectacular cars adorn the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance both inside and outside the gates, and you’ll never know what sock-off-knocking vehicle will show up. So it fills us with glee to see what showed up outside the show in 1976, captured on film by Michael Lamm for SIA #37, [...]
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