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It Came From… Alex Tremulis?
The jet-age styling of the 1950s produced some of the most memorable automotive designs ever, but we have a hard time recalling ever seeing a hood ornament such as this, which reader William J. Dubiel...
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Automobile art in design patents
In our recent post on the Alex Tremulis flying saucer hood ornament, we came across its design patent, which led us down the rabbit hole that is Google Patents, via which you can search through more...
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Four-Links – stolen MGs, restored RC buggy, that’ll buff out, Tremulis...
* Three MGs – an Old English White MGB roadster, a Flame Red MGB GT, and a black MGB GT – were stolen in the span of one week from one garage in the U.K. earlier this month. If you see ‘em, do the...
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Updates: Abandoned Cit, Tremulis’s flying saucer, H&N’s signage, Fiat factory...
Sometimes we find out more about one of our posts after the fact, or somebody leaves a comment on an ancient post with some good info worth highlighting. We’ve had a bit of that lately, so let’s wrap...
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It’s 5 o’clock someplace
It only looks like a Lincoln-Zephyr. Photographed on the show field at Pebble Beach this year, this instead is the more traditional Lincoln, a 1938Â Model K with V-12 power. At least, it started out...
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Four-Links – Ferguson Mustangs, fishin’ for Sambas, land-speed motorhome,...
* In our recent SIA Flashback on four-wheel-drive autos, there was a brief mention of the Ferguson four-wheel-drive Mustangs. Commenter rupewrecht uncovered a link to a German Mustang club’s website...
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Tremulis ornament spotted in the wild
Paul Scholtenweg, the lensman behind Limpe Iven and our hot rod connection in Europe, recently sent us a couple pics of a Tremulis flying saucer hood ornament that he spotted actually installed on a...
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Four-Links – turbine car brochure, BowlMor Cadillac, H-Mod reunion, 1949 Ford...
* Barry Wolk recently pointed me in the direction of the Art and Colour blog, and while only a portion of it relates to old cars, that portion includes excellent posts like this on a brochure for...
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Fords of the future, by Alex Tremulis
Images courtesy Ford Motor Company While recently rooting around in Ford’s image archives, we ran across a batch of concept car photos and renderings dating to the 1950s and 1960s that came with no...
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Alex Tremulis’s Gyronaut X-1 goes under restoration
Photos courtesy Steve Tremulis Designer Alex Tremulis maintained over his decades-long career that streamlining and aerodynamics provided the solutions to many a problem faced by automotive designers...
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Four-Links – Fiat Turbina, highway hi-fi, Ford Styling tour, coachbuilt 914
* If you’re going to develop a gas-turbine car, it had better look like it came from a Buck Rogers future. Fiat covered that base with its tri-turbine 1954 Turbina, profiled this week on Fuel...
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Four-Links – Big Red at Burning Man, mid-engine Miller, the Tremulis-Shelby...
* A couple months ago we mentioned the Big Red project (a Walter crash truck rebodied as a Baja Bug), and this week saw over on Mac’s Motor City Garage that Big Red did indeed make it to Burning Man,...
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Ford Gyron model to cross the auction block
Photos courtesy Wright Auctions. While scale models from Detroit’s automakers offer significant historic glimpses into the automobile development process and seldom come up for public auction, they...
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Four-Links – Viking guest bedroom, 2CV Selecta, 1975 Columbus auto show,...
* For an instant guest bedroom, an unnamed Maine resident decided to convert a 1959 Chevrolet Viking short bus. (via) * Responding to our call for more Selectas, some guy in France has created the 2CV...
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Four-Links – Lincoln’s Tumblr gaffes, Spohn, Oppernator, Chrysler Museum last...
* By now you’ve surely seen that Lincoln has dipped into its heritage in a rebranding effort. If one believes the talk, this provides hope that Lincoln will regain its former glory. Then again, if one...
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Ford Gyron model sells for $40,000
Photo courtesy Wright Auctions. The Ford Gyron never made it to production, which shouldn’t come as much of a surprise – the gyroscopically stabilized delta wing on two wheels hardly made it beyond...
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Four-Links – 1956 Motorama, post-Packard Packards, Vinsetta update, Zora’s Le...
* Not too long ago we saw some of Alex Tremulis’s photos from the 1955 Paris Motor Show, and this week Steve Tremulis at Gyronaut X-1 treated us to some of Alex’s shots from the 1956 Motorama,...
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Alex Tremulis’s Gyro-X prototype under restoration
Photos courtesy GyronautX1.com Alex Tremulis was a man with a lively mind. The chief designer of Auburn, Cord and Duesenberg, the architect of the Tucker and the longtime head of Ford’s advanced...
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Four-Links – Lincoln Highway centennial, 1950s NY Auto Show photos, 1958...
* As we reported last year, a number of events have been scheduled to celebrate the centennial of the Lincoln Highway. One of those, which just wrapped up, was the Lincoln Highway Association’s...
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SIA Flashback – Created By The Measured Mile
Chrysler had many a celebrated concept car during the 1940s and 1950s, but none so much as the Thunderbolt or the Newport phaeton, collected together for this article from SIA #28, May-June 1975....
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Four-Links – France wants its cars back, Tucker designer and author dies,...
* Lotta collector car stuff in the news recently. We’ll start on the left coast with an article out of Seattle about collector Charles Morse’s 1919 Turcat-Mery, a Pebble Beach class-winning car that...
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Tucker, Ford designer Alex Tremulis to be inducted into Automotive Hall of Fame
Alex Tremulis with a model of the Tucker. Photos courtesy Steve Tremulis. Though perhaps best known for his work on the Tucker, Alex Tremulis worked for as many as 20 different automobile companies...
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Tucker “Tin Goose” prototype to appear at AACA Museum’s Evening with the Tuckers
Tin Goose (left) and Tucker #1013 at the Swigart Museum. Photo courtesy the Swigart Museum. Later this year, the AACA Museum in Hershey, Pennsylvania, will open its long-awaited Cammack Tucker Exhibit...
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Chrysler’s Newport and Thunderbolt: Mere “idea cars” or an exoneration of the...
1940 Chrysler Thunderbolt. Photo courtesy RM Sotheby’s. Chrysler’s Newport dual-cowl phaeton and Thunderbolt retractable hardtop roadster have, among automotive historians, long enjoyed status as...
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