Haven t visited in a while. But, as it turns out, Europeans in the 1950s had some sort of kink for :
Also, as it turns out, magazines back then concentrated on providing the least amount of facts that would help me further research their subjects.
Apparently, magazine editors soon abandoned their idea that we d be after the debuted.
The magazines made a big appeal to the homebuilder, which we hardly see nowadays. Consider the homebuilt , the single-cylinder , the and the mahogany-bodied , pictured below.
Did anyone ever actually build one?
An interesting , including a tale of early aerodynamism featuring Carl Breer.
And while I ve never spotted in my junkyard adventures certain accessories, like the , the or the , I m sure at least a few examples still exist. I about a month ago that some folks from Bob Dylan s camp called us up, looking for a couple of cars for an upcoming video.
Ultimately, our buddy Al Mooney took his very fine Coral 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air convertible down, and while he didn t manage to get a picture of Scarlett Johansson, she ended up spending quite a bit of time with the car.
We can tell, because a , When the Deal Goes Down, has turned up (there s a 16-second AOL commercial to sit through first).
I won t comment on the music (save to say that Dylan and Willie Nelson have been obviously been spending time together), but Al s car looks fantastic.
I have no idea what s up with the Minnesota plates (the video was shot in Connecticut, and Al s from upstate New York). Nor can I explain the manatee, although for reasons I won t go into, it does very successfully evoke my youth.
Glad to be of help, Bob.
While the term doodlebug has most of us thinking about Depression-era Model As and Ts converted into tractors, the term really applies to any homemade tractor, and fits the description quite well.
According to the article, Whitaker combined the rear half of a T frame, the front half of a 1950 Dodge pickup frame, a 1964 Chevrolet 292 six-cylinder, dual transmissions (both Dodge and Chevrolet) and separate brakes on the rear wheels.
The article also mentions Whitaker running the thing at up to 80 mph, something I d hesitate to do, considering the cobbed-up wheels and the extremely short wheelbase.
He s not too far from us here in Bennington - wonder if the creation s still around?
Is this the newest trend in ? Maybe if GM built them, they d run on corn syrup.
Are they in mint condition? Built with the assistance of a sugar daddy? Can I make any more bad puns?
As seen on coverage of festival.
UPDATE: It seems these little munchies hit Teh Intarnet today, and mostly in an Easy Bake Oven-sized (tempest in a teapot-sized?) gas-powered (they re electric).
The interesting part comes when one of the builders states that her husband now works for . See kids - candy is good after all! Big Sandy and the Fly Rite Boys is one of my all-time favorite neo-retro-rockabilly outfits.
I ve seen them more times than I can count.
They used to tour around the country in a 1949 bus (not sure of the manufacturer) that appeared on the cover of the band s 1992 release On The Go.
This past year, the band went back in the studio to record their new CD Turntable Matinee.
The band had to abandon its last bus, a 1950 model, just last year. In an interview, frontman Robert Williams talked about pulling up in front of a thrift store in the middle of nowhere:
There was a kid out in front, and he was just like in awe when we pulled up. He looked a little bit confused, and then we come walking up, and he wasn t sure if he should approach us or not.
Then he asked us, Are you guys from the past? Big Sandy laughs. As if we were traveling in a time machine or something.
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