Bucksaw Blade
I check the Crosley Auto Club's Crosley-Gang bulletin board every day - always good stuff, but this was too good not to share....From Ken Knapp:"That reminds me of the stories my Mom would tell of her...
View ArticleTreasure Trove
In between all the storms a few weeks back, I drove down to Borrego Springs (waaaaay down south, near the Mexican border) and then back to Sacto the next day. 1100 total miles, and a little over 20...
View ArticleRIP Robert Hansen - the man behind The Crosley Report
Woke up Monday to some very sad news: my friend Robert (Richard*) Hansen died of a pulmonary embolism last weekend.I don't really even know where to start with this.... Robert and I were very close for...
View ArticleBlast From the Past
Looking through some boxes of club archives tonight and found a set of photos from the 1995 meet - two years before I'd joined. Was VERY surprised to see a photo of the '49 Crosley convertible I bought...
View ArticleWILD Crosley Stock Car Race Footage Found
Indefatigable Crosley fan John McKnight sent me a link to this recently-posted footage of indoor all-Crosley stock car racing from the fifties. It is NUTS.The footage was shot by a racing fan named...
View ArticleMultipla in the Wild!
Here's something you don't see every day: a vintage Fiat Multipla parked on the street.You better believe I pulled over when I saw this parked four blocks from my house. Regular readers will know about...
View ArticleWhen Shit Goes Wrong
I got invited to ride along on a vintage car rally last week. My buddy Marcos takes his old Volvos out whenever he gets the chance, and spending Black Friday tearing around back roads in the wine...
View ArticleEtceterini Update: Great Nardi 750 Crosley Video!
Following up on my post from last week, I'm excited to share this great video on a Crosley-powered Nardi 750 that was for sale not long ago. I missed this when it was first posted, but H-mod fanatic...
View ArticleEtceterini on my Mind
I've been reading an old Fawcett book on the "new" European sports cars (Sports Car Albumby John Freeman, 1953) that really delivers a feel for the era -- a time when neither Mercedes Benz nor Ferrari...
View ArticleNice Tribute to the Hot Shot
Really nice write up at The Old Motor on the often-maligned Crosley Hot Shot. Happy to see the details correct, and snappy writing, too. "Running at a constant 7,500 rpm, the Hotshot screamed like a...
View ArticleGary Gabelich - "Plenty Boss, Man. Plenty Boss."
Unlike most car geeks, I wasn't much of a gearhead when I was a kid. No subscription to Hot Rod or CarToons, no shelf of carefully-constructed Revell car models, no posters of scantily-clad girls...
View ArticleNebraska Estate Sale Crosley - 1947 Sedan
Just ran across photos of this sweet lil '47 sedan that will be available at an estate sale in Nebraska this weekend.Photos look great - everything seems very straight and very stock - and the seller...
View ArticleSoCal Skorpion For Sale - CHEAP!
I did an old-fashioned spit-take when I saw David Wheeler's recent post on the "Crosley Automobiles... Fun Little Cars page" on Facebook: Crosley Skorpion for sale, $5000.For those of you not familiar...
View ArticleWink, Booger & Crosley
Recently bought this 1948 snapshot of "Wink, Booger and Crosley" - with an annotation like that, how could I resist?One interesting factoid: the photo is labeled "Bradenton, E. Fla." Bradenton, Florida...
View ArticleMETA
You thought I was crazy for Crosleys?Crosley engine whiz Barry Seel recently posted this photo of the time he used his Crosley-powered forklift to lift the body off his Crosley convertible.
View ArticleIt's Raining Tin Blocks!
Ok, not really.But once I made that last post a few people have come forward with THEIR running CoBra motors...First up is Martin Park Hunter from La Crosse, Wisconsin. Park is a Crosley nut of the...
View ArticleTin Block Triumph: Bone Stock '47 Truck For Sale
"Stock" is a word that is rarely used to describe Crosley automobiles - and with good reason: they are one of the most-modified automobiles on Earth, perhaps second only to Volkswagen Beetle for...
View ArticleHappy Birthday, Al
As I got ready to call my buddy Al on his birthday today, it dawned on me that it was 20 years ago this month that he and I made our 700 mile road trip in a Crosley. Twenty years!I'd been scheming on a...
View ArticleThe Crosley Super Sports Coupe
I haven't laid eyes on my Crosley Super Sports in nearly two years. It, along with most of my tools, was packed into storage when we tore down my old garage to start building the new house and shop.If...
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