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* There’s plenty of operational quarter-scale engines out there, but most of them are scale versions of the small-block Chevrolet V-8, so Bob Finlay’s 3/10-scale Crosley four-cylinder is a bit unique. He’s apparently been working on it for...
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Twomilesaminute,
Geehowwefly!
Swiftasameteor
Streakingthesky.
Whatisthatblur?
Onlythetrees.
Lookatthemwave,
Mywhatabreeze!
Ahonkandarush,
Aflashandasmell—
Whatdidwehit?
Didsomebodyyell? Ajarandascream—
Itlookedlikeahorse.
Notellingnow,
Keeptothecourse.
Outoftheroad!
Giveusashow!
Twomilesaminute,
Geehowwego!
-Leonard Harman Robbins, Jersey Jingles,
via The Motorcycle Illustrated, March 1908.
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* If you’re a fan at all of front-engined dragsters, the We Did It For Love guys have a photo tour you’ll drool over: They visited Bucky Austin’s collection in Tacoma, Washington, a couple years ago, and marveled at both the restored dragsters (and drag cars) in the front showroom as well as the yet-unrestored [...]
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Military gray color for most European divisions and desert sand paint scheme for North Africa.
We don’t always have to show vehicles from the good guys do we? The Zundapp KS750 was a mainstay of the Third Reich during WWII and along with the BMW R75 constituted most of the motorcycle fleet used by the German [...]
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* We’ve posted on the Birmingham News’s Engine Block blog and their friends at Old Car Heaven before, and the folks at OCH recently brought home a pink 1956 Chrysler New Yorker convertible. Why we’ve been obsessed with pink cars lately, dunno. The 1956 Chrysler color chip chart lists a Desert Rose as the closest [...]
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Unlike Ducati, Moto Guzzi isn’t exactly a household name in America. Nevertheless, the company has stuck to its guns and delivered some stunning motorcycles over the years.
One is up for sale with Cheffins Auctioneers in Cambridge, England.
Moto Guzzi’s first successful racer was the pre-war Condor, introduced in 1938. The bike boasted an aluminium-alloy cylinder barrel and head, [...]
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* We had a nice little confluence of events this week. First, Geoff Hacker sent us a link to his buddy’s fiberglass boats site. Why should we care? Because these little watercraft have a lot of the same over-the-top design cues that we love in our 1950s cars. Then just a couple days later, Mechanix [...]
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Justus Taylor (right) passed away on Saturday, January 3, 2008.
Justus was one of those self-motivated Yankee geniuses that could’ve easily been an engineer, but was just as satisfied living in a one-room cabin, living on the few bucks he made making sandals.
He raced BMW motorcycles competitively, he flew airplanes and was just a general enthusiast about [...]
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