Tag: automobile

For Want of a Jump

1950-54 DKW F89 Meisterklasse, Sweden. Dieter Klein 2019.

[Photo of an abandoned DKW Meisterklasse by Dieter Klein found here.]

Hail Storm A-Comin’

[These images (and more) found here.]

The Amazing 1951 Hoffman

“There’s something to be said about a car company that after 73 years, 100% of its cars are still running today.”

The Hoffman was a German three-wheeled microcar created by Michael Hoffman, a shop foreman from Munich. It features an aluminum body with asymmetrical roof/windshield, rear wheel drive and steering, a pivoting single-cylinder 6.5 hp engine, and many more questionable design flaws.
Only one exists: the only one ever built.

Images (and more) found here, test drive video via Road & Track.

See The Man.

Photo credit: Inge Morath, 1960.
Outskirts of Memphis, Tennessee, during her 18-day road trip from New York to Reno, Nevada.
I hope she saw the man.
[Found here.]

Auto Detailing

[Found here. It’s the work of Eddie Putera.]

Retro Reflections

Not sure what make/model the car is, but the reflection is interesting. I messed with it a tad. It’s definitely not what I expected.

[Top image found here.]

[Update: The car year/make/model has been confirmed. Details here.]

1964 Soviet Taxi Prototype

1964 Soviet Taxi Prototype 5

Even a babushka with a baby carriage full of pea soup fits in, without a drop spilled. The car never made it to production, but the concept is interesting, given the state of automotive manufacturing in the USSR at the time.
[Click the images below for full size.]

This unique test car was designed in 1964 based on components of “Moskvich-408”. It successfully passed performance tests in Moscow and was recommended for serial production In Yerevan, but due to different reasons it didn’t go this far…

[Caption with more photos here.]

Ice Grille

Ice Grille

[Found here.]