Continuing with the Mullin Museum's race car collection, I stumbled upon the weirdest one of them all down at the end of isle. I hope this one provides some inspiration for hot rod cues. I dig the das... <BR><BR>To read the rest of this blog entry from The Jalopy Journal, click here.
Thats a real Mad max lookin' piece of machinery there. Well except its not built from junk. very cool piece of history.
Those guys were truely "form follows function" types. There was a Voisin coupe at Meadowbrook this year. Love em.
Nice photos JB. This was an Andre Lefebvre designed car as was the Citroen DS. Follow this link to learn more and compare the two cars side by side. www.switchimage.org/Lefebvre_1_E.html
Andre Lefebvre designed the car, not Gabriel. side note, all the cars were destroyed. The car on display probably belongs to Philip Moch, or was his. He recreated the car from scratch.
The hokey propeller actually drives the water pump if I'm not mistaken. Very unique and out of the box. Do a image search on Voisin and you see they made lots of interesting cars.
I saw this at the Monterey Historics maybe ten years ago, and felt like I was observing an alien spacecraft. I thought -- and still think -- that it's a wonderfully imaginative, and really quite handsome, piece of automotive design. I was going to point out that this one is a replica, and that the propellor drives the water pump, but I see that others have beat me to it. Thanks for showing this!
Lots of ideas there. The pic with the driver put it all in perspective for me. 1923,hard to believe,Cat
The aero version with fenders looks really cool too. ( one of the originals, but with front fenders )
I'm not sure if I think it's drop-dead gorgeous or catastrophically ugly. All I know is I love it. Something about it just speaks to me.
Probably fed it orphan children to keep it alive. Or it just drove around and scooped 'em up and ate 'em. EVIL
Furnace on wheels....didnt see that till ya said it....hmmmm maybe I can rob my Grandparents furnace. All ha ha's aside....its beautiful...i dig the friction shocks (think i named them right) and the wheel discs are pretty slick too.....lots of ideas for thinkn outside the bun