Carspotting: Going For A Ride In The Park
The White Motor Company custom-built more than 500 of these Model-706 tourist buses for national-park duty in 1936-39. Glacier’s entire fleet was sidelined by widespread chassis cracking in 1999—after averaging 600,000 miles—that threatened its existe...
Carspotting: To The Moon And Back
As a teener of the early 1950s, Jerry Anolik must’ve watched too many science fiction flicks about rockets to the moon. What form such magical machines would take was anybody’s guess. This unique vision evolved from damage inflicted upon Jerry’s Cad-p...
Carspotting: He With The Most Volkswagens Wins
What established auto-repair business doesn't wind up with unclaimed, unwanted, unpaid-for beaters dying slow deaths outside? Garcia's Foreign Car Repair gradually accumulated so many Volkswagens that fewer than half would fit into the camera's wide...
Carspotting: Coke Comes To Drag Racing
York US 30 Dragway hosted these Coca-Cola Cavalcade Of Stars Funny Cars not long after the strip's 1970 opening. Chicago's Gold Agency packaged eight floppers as an eight-car, one-night show that even smaller strips could afford, thanks to Coke-subsid...
Carspotting: Rebuilding Neil Young’s LincVolt
Neil Young is both praised and blamed for proving that electricity and internal combustion can live happily ever after within a spacious, heavyweight, American automobile—without spoiling the fun or performance. Neil did not anticipate a much-satirize...
Carspotting: SUV Pioneers Turned Out To Pasture
Rust may never sleep, but it wasn't getting far with these thick slabs of steel by 2007. Some lucky caretaker apparently appreciated just how revolutionary the 4WD Wagoneer (since 1963), Scout and Travelall (both 1961) proved to be. The designs were s...
Carspotting: When “Way Too Close” Was Just Right
The spectator leaning far over Lions Drag Strip's railing demonstrates why these were the best seats in drag racing for dragster fans. Not so fine was the opposing grandstand, where this amateur photographer was unfortunately seated. Ironically, the t...
Carspotting: Shark-mobile Seeks Beetles
Oncoming drivers could be forgiven for wondering whether Bob Bowen's speeding 1960 Cadillac is real or hallucinatory. Under construction all during the Jaws movie mania, the radical kustom debuted in 1978 as "Vendetta 9". "But everybody called it 'Jaw...