What you see above may not be immediately recognizable as any form of transportation, but as Engine Swap Depot pointed out this week, it’s something that would make Ray Russell proud: Sam Turner’s twin-turbocharged diesel two-wheel-drive hydrostatic-drive chopper. The ingenuity throughout this thing is impressive.
* This past week marked the 50th anniversary of the publication of Ralph Nader’s “Unsafe At Any Speed,” a book that, as The Detroit Bureau estimated, saved as many as 3.5 million lives in the decades since.
* Dave McIntosh’s designs from his 40-year career with General Motors were the topic of a recent Dean’s Garage retrospective.
* In addition to the ungainly looking road leviathans most auto historians associate with the name, Pickwick also put into service a small fleet of Dwight E. Austin-designed Columbia Coach Works-built Nite Coaches that The Old Motor recently profiled.
* Finally, Motor Mavens put together a brief but intriguing look at the Japanese bosozoku bike-gang subculture, specifically the underage girls that participate in it.
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