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Modern Mechanix
I don’t know how, in all my Internet wanderings, I’ve never come across the Modern Mechanix website. I have great fun digging through my dad’s Popular Science or Popular Mechanics magazines from the...
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yesterday’s cars of tomorrow today
Haven’t peeked in on Modern Mechanix in a while, and I’m missing all the good stuff. A Popular Science article from 1940 explains why, in the next two years, automakers will entirely switch to...
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twin-boom cars, accessories and Segway’s predecessor
Haven’t visited Modern Mechanix in a while. But, as it turns out, Europeans in the 1950s had some sort of kink for twin-boom cars: Also, as it turns out, magazines back then concentrated on providing...
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early Toyotas, compressed-air car and the pres’s new whips
Again, I keep forgetting to visit Modern Mechanix for weeks, and again, they’ve unearthed some cool stuff. First, a brief article about the earliest postwar Toyotas. At the time, “entire output of the...
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Martin’s ferries
Modern Mechanix has a scan from the April 1950 issue of Mechanix Illustrated of the Martin Stationette… … but doesn’t give much background info. Fortunately, we have the Special Interest Autos archives...
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300 mph on balloon wheels
Seen this magazine cover on Modern Mechanix for a while now, but the article that went with it didn’t appear there until just recently. Gotta wonder who the unnamed designer was. And what engines he...
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Four-Links – Sarasota Auto Museum’s fate?, showroom photo collection, LPG...
Word has it the New College of Florida wants to buy the Sarasota Classic Car Museum for $4.4 million from the Sarasota-Manatee Airport Authority and turn it into a conference center and gym. The...
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Crosley ambulance
I mentioned last month in the Firecycle post that I’d seen Crosley fire trucks used for duty inside factories, and have kept an eye out for one of those since. Coincidentally, Modern Mechanix recently...
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no idea is totally new – the tractorcycle
A few months back, the motor blog world was all afuss about a pair of all-terrain motorcycle designs (not even actual prototypes) that debuted as part of the Michelin Challenge Design 2006. Whether...
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class of 1936
Modern Mechanix has a scan of, er, Modern Mechanix’s December 1935 preview of the cars of 1936. Think about it – a time when the general public had absolutely no idea what was coming around the bend...
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Troy, New York – center of automotive manufacturing
Not really. More like “center of annoying roads we have to drive through to get to the Thruway.” Donnelly says there’s good pizza joints there, though, and of course, there’s RPI, but another bright...
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single-wheel insanity
It’s tough to keep up with Modern Mechanix nowadays (Three New Lightweight Automobiles for Europeans, Sunlight Powers Automobile, Motorcycle Skis, The Hounds of Spring Are At Your Heels, Streamlined...
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Four-Links – wooden hippie bus, the safety car revolution, new Packards? and...
* Is it taking the green car movement too far? Actually, it seems rather environmentally insensitive, considering the number of trees artist Lee Stoetzel had to cut down to fabricate his “woodie.”...
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Four-Links – trailers, boxes, vans and used cars
I’ve been in and out of the office the last few days, so I’m just catching up on my reading: * Following a comment in the post on Alexander Ramirez’s 1937 GMC beer truck, I came across Vince...
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Four-Links – Modern Mechanix’s return, more cool photos on the Hemmings...
* Modern Mechanix apparently had a little downtime recently, but they appear to be back in business now with their normal eclectic mix of scans from old science and mechanics-minded magazines. Above,...
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Plywood cars and odd superchargers
My Mechanix Illustrated collection has been growing lately, mostly filling gaps in the 1950s and 1960s, but I’ve also been adding some issues from the magazine’s predecessor, Modern Mechanix, and...
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