Items tagged with: oddities

Oldsmobile Fouranado to appear at Carlisle GM Nationals

Oldsmobile Fouranado. Photos by Jeff Koch. Hemmings Daily and Hemmings Muscle Machines readers might recall the 1968 “Fouranado” — a one-off Oldsmobile 442 with a Toronado front-drive powertrain — fe...

Perhaps the world’s first hybrid, an 1896 Armstrong sells for $483,400 at Amelia Island

Ask fair-weather enthusiasts to name the first hybrid automobile, and the answer is likely to be the Toyota Prius, which debuted in the Japanese market in 1997, or the Honda Insight, which hit the ma...

What lies beneath? In this case, Harley Earl’s Cadillac

The “Raindrop” Cadillac, beneath the barn overhang. Photos courtesy Robin Barry. In 1983, Medway, Ohio, residents Robin and Mike Barry purchased the property adjoining theirs for a single reason: Lon...

Willys-Knight sleeve valve demonstrator model, an interesting piece of automotive history

We spotted an interesting item that was recently sold on an online auction site, a Willys-Knight Moving Piston Sleeve Cutaway Demonstrator model. The model has a knob on the back of the unit for rota...

Remembering GM’s Firebird I

Three-time winner of the Indianapolis 500, Mauri Rose stands alongside Firebird I prior to his test drive on a deserted road in Arizona. Could these be the wheels that inspired Pontiac’s eight-lug wh...