* The legendary Connecting Highway attracted amateur and high-dollar street racers alike during the Seventies, and though the cops busted those attending on a regular basis, the racers kept coming back. ConnectingHighway.com tells the tales and shines a spotlight on some of the racers who turned a wheel there back in the day, giving us a glimpse of that bygone era. (via)
* So how did folks get around Alaska before the construction of the Alaska Highway? Plenty of different ways, including the various snowmobiles and other snow vehicles that Nancy DeWitt at the Fountainhead Antique Auto Museum highlighted.
* What if the 1953 Chevrolet Corvette had been designed by other manufacturers active at that time? We already have a pretty good idea, based on those other manufacturers’ two-seat and limited-production cars, but Frank Peiler at Consumer Guide’s The Daily Drive took the idea a little farther and rendered his ideas for how Dodge, Hudson, Ford, and others would have done up the first Corvette.
* While we’d expect an eight-wheeled anything from the Twenties to have come from the shops of Fageol, Goodyear actually built this eight-wheeled four-wheel-steer bus that The Old Motor recently discussed, basing it on a street car body.
* Finally, nobody knows exactly what inspired Stanley Douglas to chop the roof of his circa 1924 Studebaker into a fastback in the early 1930s, not even his own son, but the car itself remained in the family up until recently and still sports its unusual homebuilt modification, as the Tampa Bay Times recently reported.
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