* Car museums typically display everything in pristine condition – to the point where some people describe their restored cars as museum-worthy. Not the Beller Museum outside of Chicago, however. As Austin Coop wrote on Roadtrippers this past week, the Beller Museum is dedicated to displaying its cars and trucks in unrestored, as-used, real-world condition.
* When we looked into the origins of four-wheel drive a few years back, we started with Otto Zachow and what became the F.W.D., but didn’t spend much time on his cars. David Greenlees at The Old Motor expanded on Zachow’s story this week with more on how the carmaker became a truckmaker and refined its four-wheel-drive system.
* Better than four-wheel drive? How about a six-wheel-drive Renault 5? Torchinsky explored the reasons for and brief history of the Christian Leotard-conceived, Tissier-built six-wheeled R5 that ran Dakar in 1980, that inspired an even crazier twin-engined Turbo version, and that still exists.
* Geoff Hacker at Forgotten Fiberglass presented the story of father-son team Ed and Phil Cox building a Woodill Wildfire last year, and now he’s collected all three parts of the extensive story into a free e-book.
* Finally, Peter Brown of the Provincetown Banner this week pointed us to the story he wrote on explorer Donald MacMillan’s Ford Model T snowmobile – probably the lowest-mileage Ford Model T out there – and the effort to restore it after it sat out in the elements for several decades.
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