Four-Links – Checker pickup, Carl Sagan’s Porsche, Iacocca Q&A, Cadillac’s...
* While recently catching up on some back issues of the Checker Car Club’s newsletter, we ran across mention of a Checker pickup what-if model commissioned by Dieter Losskar and executed by Dirk...
View ArticleAndrew DiDia, designer of DiDia 150, dies at age 96
The DiDia 150, Andrew DiDia’s best known design. Photo by Alden Jewell. Andrew DiDia was a clothing designer by trade, but his artistic vision led him to create the DiDia 150, one of the wildest...
View ArticleFour-Links – Spaceballs the Lego Set, opposed piston engines, saving a...
* Yogurt would be pleased. Lego Ideas member NvdK suggested this sweet set of Lone Starr’s Winnebago, the Eagle 5, complete with a pair of secret hyper jets that allow it to hit plaid. It only needs...
View ArticleAMX GT redux – popular concept car in the midst of re-creation
Photos by Mikel Smithson, except where noted. Couldn’t be that hard, many people think, to slam an AMX and a Gremlin together to re-create the long-lost 1968 AMX GT concept car, right? Except that...
View ArticleTaking it all in – a closer look at some of the vehicles from last week’s...
N100001, the first Camaro built on the pilot assembly line, displayed in the GM booth. Photos by author. Though it was conceived as an industry trade show to support the automotive aftermarket...
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