Automotive Stories
Prewar MG History
Prewar MG History
by Rick Feibusch 2009 PDF
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Original Owner - Minor In California
With all of this talk about upgrading Morris Minors, there is still a good case for driving a good running unmodified Minor, as long as your requirements don't exceed the capabilities of the car. The original Minor 1000, introduced in 1957, and the 1098 cc version built between 1964 and 1971 are competent, well engineered little motors that are easy to repair and find parts for. Well kept, they should provide economical transportation forever.
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Feibusch's 50 Biz Coupe
The car was stored in Santa Rosa for a few months until they set up a garage at home, then they drove it over 500 miles south to Venice Beach (Los Angeles) without one bit of trouble - Used no oil and got 17mpg.
They have been driving it weekly since and it is quite a hit at cruise nights as it stands out amongst the sea of Fords and Chevies. They replaced the springs (NOS) and shocks and changed the oil - That's it!
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Mustang Memories - 1965
SAN FRANCISCO: I was a car crazy sixteen-year-old, growing up in the San Francisco
suburb of Menlo Park, when Ford introduced the Mustang in the summer of 1964. I read
all of the car magazines, built the AMT 3-in-1 models kits of my favorite rides, and even
pumped gas and worked the lube rack at the corner Shell station.
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THE 1966 MUSTANG
The Mustang was an instant hit. For 1966 there were few changes. The grille was cleaned up a bit and the funny little
chrome "scoop" screwed to the back of the side depression on cars that weren't equipped
with pin-striping, made way for a three-pronged spear thingie. The hotter standard V-8
dropped to 210 h.p. though you still could order the 271 horse, solid-lifter performance
mill.
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The History of the Continental Kit
By Rick Feibusch
In the early days of the automobile, the roads were poor and tires were fragile. Part of the early automotive experience was the regular repair of flats....
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THE 1949 TO 1954 "STEP-DOWN" HUDSON
Prior to the 2006 release of the Pixar/Disney film "Cars", in which a blue Hudson Hornet called "Doc Hudson" stars as a
decidedly grumpy retired racecar from the past....
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WELL-TRAVELED TRAVELLER WITH A CALIFORNIA HISTORY
This Traveller eventually fell victim to oldcar-
itus and became too un-dependable for a
catering hauler, so it was relegated to being a
car park artifact....
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The Riley One-Point-Five Sports Sedan
The Riley One-Point-Five project hit the drawing board just after the merger of Austin of England and the Nuffield Group (Morris, Wolseley, Riley and MG) to form BMC in late 1951.....
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The Chevy II And Nova
The Chevy II, introduced in late 1961,
was one of the last compacts to be
released after the great American
compact rush of the late '50s and early
'60s. The switch to compacts had been a
reaction to a major financial crisis.....
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Postwar American Sportscars;
Forgotten Fiberglass
The sportscar was a concept brought back to the States by GIs who had been stationed in Europe and England after WWII. While Americans had seen a number of powerful sporting cars before the war like the Stutz and the Deusenberg, and hot rodding had a begun in Southern California before the war, these cars were generally big powerful
smooth road machines or home-built roadsters that performed well because of a lowered center of gravity and lightened weight. Sports cars, especially the cars from the UK, inspired American car enthusiasts well beyond putting twin carbs and dual exhaust on a Ford
V8.
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1955 CHEVY PRO-STREET RESTO-CUSTOM JUST COMPLETED IN SoCal
Just out of the shop and being readied for shows and cruising is this incredible 1955 Chevy Bel Air
owned by Jeff Williams of Whittier, California. This car is a highly modified show car......
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The 1942 - 1948 Chevrolet
This is one of those "armchair" cars that remind one of
sitting in grandma's salon. I grabbed onto that bigger-than-life, white steering wheel, tugged the shifter into neutral
and pressed my toe down on the floor mounted starter
pedal......
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THE SMX - FIBERGLASS & THE SINGER MOTOR COMPANY
One of the more successful auto companies in Britain was the Singer
Motor Corporation, based in Birmingham. Singer started by making
motor cycles in 1900 until 1905 when they produced their first
automobile. Between 1905 and 1954,
The fiberglass Singer story starts with flamboyant American Singer
distributor, Bill Vaughan. Vaughan, who saw the future in fiberglass and was
considering opening three manufacturing plants (California, New York
and Florida) to produce plastic bodies to be fitted to production
Singer roadster chassis. This developing enterprise, along with ........
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The Chevy II And Nova
By Rick Feibusch
The Chevy II, introduced in late 1961,
was one of the last compacts to be
released after the great American
compact rush of the late '50s and early
'60s. The switch to compacts had been a
reaction to a major financial crisis.....
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Standard Vanguard Utes
Paul responded that Australian tax & importation laws
required that much of the car had to be made
domestically and these vans and some Utes were the
result. Even more unusual is the fact that the Australian
versions were built by a number of different companies,
so there were slightly different designs, so body parts
which didn't always interchange. Few examples
remain today.
I did more research....
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1951 Riley
Photo and Story
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Minor Traveller 1967
Photo and Story
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Jensen Healey History
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Triumph TR7-TR8 History
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MGB & MGBGT History
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Morris Ute 1964
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Plymouth Sedan 1936
While the depression was devastating to most American auto companies, Chrysler Corporation seemed to be living through it better than most. Despite the market crash of '29, Plymouth sales were booming by the early '30s. This was partly because Chrysler was technologically ahead.
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Ford Woodie 1938
"Woody" is a Southern California Surfing term from the Sixties that made its way into mainstream vocabulary after being introduced to pop culture...
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