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25 years ago a buddy of mine and I drove a '49 Crosley from Sacramento to Morro Bay (about 350 miles) - almost all on small highways and back...
I think this fits here: the Persu Streamliner, designed and built in Germany in 1922. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Inspired by the new science of...
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I was not! Of course it was a Ned Ludd thread! That thread is amazing... and very similar to what I was shooting for here, except that I was...
EDIT: there's already a similar thread on weird ass cars! https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/automotive-weirdness.944738/...
That 1983 version is perfection
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My first water-cooled vehicle! [ATTACH]
Just a wild guess here: I think the builder might have been inspired by the Batmobile in the 80s Batman movies and then converted to the spider...
I'm gonna go with the classic.
Just watched all four episodes - great! Now i want a 'bonus' episode about the guy who initially built it!
As others have suggested, this looks like it might have been planned as a road racing special... there were a lot of them with similar body...
Oh man - that Capitol Speed Shop one is cool! Was about 10 blocks from where I'm sitting, but was already gone when I moved downtown in the '80s
Did a 90 mile trip out in the Sacramento river delta a week ago - incredible back road driving. Perfect for old cars (in this case a 1950 Crosley)...
Rik Hoving just posted pics of the finished car on Facebook! [ATTACH]
Did about 100 mile shakedown out in the Delta after doing brakes on the '50 Crosley. Been sitting for a bit. Ran well for most of the trip, but...
Steel body! Would have guessed fiberglass...
Saw one of my favorite Specials at the Monterey Historics today: the 1955 Crosley-powered Shannon Special. Fiberglass bodied tube-frame car ......
Here's video of the car from 2016 - back before the OP had it I think. Wray Schelin posted this on his FB page at the time. Incredible car...
I've been HAMB AWOL for a few years so i missed that thread.... guessing it was the guy who worked for fabricator Wray Schelin - built a Crosley...
I'm going to the races at Laguna Seca tomorrow and then will be in Monterey on Saturday... will check out the Councours de' Lemons and try to get...
[ATTACH] screengrab of the Italian Special posted above
Loved following along on this guy's project: building an early fifties style aluminum bodied racing special. Fantastic job, with real attention to...
Runs in the family!
Any idea where it is now?
But the engine is the best part of a Crosley!
It really depends on the job- i'm fixing the front steps on a 1913 rental property right now. The existing treads are mushy and loose, so I was...
thanks!
I'm putting the front of a '52 Dodge back together and I can't figure out where these two brackets (pictured) go? They were somewhere in front of...
Crosley did a lot of engine variants, including a flat 8 and an experimental straight 6 (which led to a hypothetical 24 cylinder aircraft motor),...
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