The conversation on Jimi'shemi291's thread "We ALL Love a DARE! PIX of TRULY Extinct Makes?" has touched on eight- and then six-wheeled cars. That got me to thinking: adding another two wheels is a fairly obvious way to add radicalness if you're looking for radicalness for its own sake, which got me to wondering what rods and customs, radical or otherwise, have been built with six or more wheels. Certainly there were six-wheeled rods on the show circuit during the '60s and '70s, but what else is out there? Anything far away from that idiom? Anything from pre-'65? Can anyone give me any examples?
No hot rods yet, nor any customs; but here's something I drew a few years ago: I call it "The Family Car" (like, you know, the Family ...), and it's a re-interpretation of the Bulletproof Bomb from Wacky Races. I re-interpreted the other ten, too.
Not a Hot Rod but cool in it's way:-- Pat Clancy Special: Powered by a Meyer-Drake engine, it sported no less than six wheels; it was raced at the<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com</st1:City>Indianapolis</ST1lace 500 in 1948. "The four wheels at the back were driven by two axles connected by a universal joint, making the Pat Clancy Special a four-wheel drive car." , ,
Close, though. I knew there'd be something like that out there! Thanks, James. I'll see if I can dig them out ...
...'crossover' is a very common term these days in the auto industry, so I offer the Scripps Bi-Autogo...bike/car, car/bike crossover in 1909!!!!. It has 6 wheels -two big ones, and four (two pairs) of 'sissy wheels' for support at speeds under 25 mph. I've always found this concept mind-blowing and having a V8 and being built in 1909 is extraordinary...... only made one, so it is truly a custom something....
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