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Dual Ghia in the classifieds, and Hoagy Carmichael was selling it

More on Dual Ghia's later, but quickly, they were Chrysler Fire Arrow's offspring, built in Italy the slow way, by hand, and imported for sale into America by the Dual Motors company which had been making military vehicles during WW2.

But what caught my eye was Hoagy. John Lennon called Hoagy his favorite songwriter.
Hoagy had composed a lot of great stuff and lived for decades on the royalties. Georgia On my Mind (famous for Ray Charles), Stardust(famous for Bing Crosby), and my fun favorite: the 1943 song "I'm a Cranky Old Yank in a Clanky Old Tank on the Streets of Yokohama with my Honolulu Mama Doin' Those Beat-o, Beat-o Flat-On-My-Seat-o, Hirohito Blues"

Yeah, the stuff that clanks around in my head waiting for something to loose it, no wonder I can't recall a thing, too many odd bits already have filled my memory ability to absorb anything new.

1909 Sultan Landaulet town car and taximeter, oddly, one has the driver covered but the other has the passengers covered. Undecided designers?

I suppose there was a market for each, but it's a very odd juxtapositon of the roof on the one manufacturer's cars

some amazing things turned up in classifieds, a Bugatti 57sc Atalante, and a wonderful 1930 Morgan 3 wheeler van/beetleback

What did MIT students do to their cars in 1970?

photo by George Lyman

Lost in Space chariot

"The Chariot" was a real, full-sized, fully operational vehicle, both in real-life and in the 1960s' fictional future. It was used to transport the Robinson family, pilot Don West, the robot, and the conniving Dr. Smith to virtually anywhere on whatever planet they would happen to be crash-landed on that week.

The Chariot was filmed on both the studio soundstage and at remote outdoor locations, which gave the show one of its few points of technical credibility.

It began life as a Thiocol Snowcat Spryte, powered by a Ford 170-cubic-inch inline-6 with 101 horsepower. It had a 4-speed automatic transmission, plus reverse.

The Chariot's factory running gear was kept intact, but all of the bodywork was designed to look like what a space family of the future would drive in 1997, when the show took place.

Found on http://www.carlustblog.com/2010/01/the-chariot-from-lost-in-space.html via: http://hotvvheels.tumblr.com/

Finally, a car drives though a loop without crashing, now how long until really huge loops are in NASCAR?

Check out the video: http://justacargal.blogspot.com/2010/01/how-to-loop-de-loop-in-car.html

Meet the gang at Roth's

Click on them for the extra big size

AFX Marlin... never heard of it before

Preston Honea's

Unusual way to display the registration tags

What the?

Via: http://theacidsweatlodge.blogspot.com/

More about the Megola, 5 cylinder radial engine front wheel drive cycle

This one was found in a basement in New Hyde Park New Jersey, where it had been for decades, and they bough tit for 100 dollars. It took 7 years to restore

It looks like there is a lot on the web about it: http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&rlz=1T4GGLL_enUS326US327&q=megola&um=1&resnum=5&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

One is in a Swiss Museum, the collection of Joe Hilti, for the eye candy large format up close hi res hi def in color:http://gespannreise.regina-vetter.ch/wp-content/uploads/megola1b-1024x768.jpg

Found in a barn, sound familiar? This car isn't familiar though, its a 1932 french Helicron

Images via: http://www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/z11262/1932-Helicron-No-1.aspx where you can also read much more about it and see a full gallery of dozens of photos taken at the 2008 Meadowbrook Concours http://jalopnik.com/399836/1932-helicron-or-the-pedestrian-hunter

In the late 1930s this one-of-a-kind Helicron was placed in a barn and forgotten. Rediscovered in 2000, rebuilt, and reintroduced to the world with its original Rosengart chassis, suspension, and brakes. Unfortunately the original motor has been lost to time but it has since been fitted with a 1980s Citroen GS 4-cylinder motor... Although the manufacturer is unknown, it's believed that this car was built in France 1932

Following the first World War it was not uncommon for recently displaced airplane engineers to look towards the automobile industry for employment. As in this example, a few entrepreneurs developed propeller-powered cars with the notion that propeller power was an efficient means of moving a vehicle. See the 1922 Helica: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2007/03/1922-helica-propeller-driven-car.html

On this car, when the wooden propeller is spinning at full speed and efficiently, this little 1,000-pound boat-tailed skiff can hit freeway speeds exceeding 75 mph. This is the one and only Helicron in existence, owned by Lane Motor Museum in Nashville, TN.

Video of it here: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2484981/1932_helicron/

eye candy

Above: 25 mph bumper car! http://clunkbucket.com/bumper-car-escapes-midway/ not as cool as http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/09/for-attention-like-nothing-else-at.html but close enough

Above: http://blacknotblack.net/black/?p=1103

2 cylinder engine, formerly an airplane tug... back then it didn't have those slotted mags

http://clunkbucket.com/kalamazoo-custom-deluxe/

The 1929 Majestic

Via: http://thevintagent.blogspot.com/2009/05/bavarian-road-test-2-majestic-new.htm

and the last two: http://thevintagent.blogspot.com/2009/04/ferrari-motorcycle.html

a different one in a museum: http://thevintagent.blogspot.com/2008/06/majestic-update.html

a new twist on an old design idea, but it doesn't look like it's been mass produced yet

http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2006/01/12/hyanide-and-baal-all-terrain-motorcycles/
From 2006. Nothing since then to show that these got past the drawing board.

Back in 1937 this way prototyped, a 1937 Mercier, 1 of 3 built for the French military

http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2009/03/26/1937-front-drive-tracked-motorcycle-prototype/

The coolest unique custom ideas

I love the piston tail-light, that is a first. Damn, I would love to see a set of these on a rat rod
Via: http://thenewcaferacersociety.blogspot.com/

Now this is the right way to get people into your gas station!

Wishire Boulevard pump station in 1938
Via: http://42ndblackwatch1881.wordpress.com/

1922 tandem motorcycle in Paris

Via: http://thenewcaferacersociety.blogspot.com/

Johnny Eck Special

Above via: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=346099

Johnny was born with a truncated torso and appendicular legs as the result of a rare condition, and joined the circus side show in his teens.

Eck loved all things mechanical, especially automobiles. With his circus earnings along with pay from odd jobs, Eck purchased a midget racecar and converted all the foot controls to hand operation. He even went so far as to have the car licensed for operation on the streets of Baltimore. Not only did he buzz around Baltimore in this crazy contraption, he raced it all over the eastern seaboard. The car was one of Johnny's greatest joys and although he went on to own others, his first was still somehow the best, much as it is for the rest of us.

Via: http://carinfos.blogspot.com/2009/03/half-man-johnny-eck-and-his-custom.html

Woodlight headlights, very cool looking, very rare. It figures they are in high demand

I am a fan of the design of these headlights, and if you want to see more, click this link and see all the rest I've posted: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/woodlight%20headlights