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SIA Flashback – Teardroppers powered by Ford
Sunday seems a good day for these SIA Flashbacks – good day to kick back after reading the paper and peruse an article from long ago. This week, we’ve chosen an article from SIA #2, from...
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One of the newer, and more fetching, collector-vehicle events to emerge is the Hilton Head Concours d’Elegance and Motoring Festival, held in the golfer’s paradise that is coastal South Carolina. Its...
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Four-Links – Armstead found, Stout around, Modes and Motors, sitting muscle
*After digging up the patents and some extra information to go along with that Armstead Snow Motors video that always makes the car-guy rounds ever winter, we started keeping an eye out for more,...
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William Stout, punk rocker?
If punk rock means deliberately upsetting the status quo, then perhaps William Bushnell Stout, inventor of a flying car and the Stout Scarabs, was the epitome of punk rock. Now, thanks to The Old...
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Will the city of Detroit sell some significant automobiles to balance the books?
Ford’s 1963 Mustang II concept car. Photo courtesy Ford Motor Company Detroit is broke. Not the auto industry – that’s coming back quite strong, even if employing a fraction of the workers it did just...
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Stout Scarab, Indiana-built cars to highlight Southwest Michigan Concours
Stout Scarab photo by Mark J. McCourt. Photos courtesy Southwest Michigan Concours d’Elegance Known since its inception as the Krasl Art Center Concours d’Elegance, the eighth annual edition of the...
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City of Detroit’s auto collection safe from sale in city’s restructuring plan
Ford’s 1963 Mustang II concept car. Photo courtesy Ford Motor Company. Those fears of the Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit Historical Museum being forced to sell off its significant car collection...
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Cars of Futures Past – Stout Scarab
Photo by Mark J. McCourt. William Stout wasn’t just an automotive engineer. In fact, the man billed as the “father of modern aviation” had a series of aeronautical credits to his name, including the...
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SIA Flashback – The Prophet (1935 Stout Scarab)
Perhaps the most brilliant thing Bill Stout ever did, according to Rich Taylor’s account of the engineer’s life and career in SIA #32, January-February 1976, was not to design the Scarab for which he...
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