Some interesting things on my Auto Radar this week.
Someone at El Rayo has a real fetish for antique German, mostly air-cooled VW, iron. Guess I need to drop in, try the food and see if I can learn about the cars.
One of these rigs showed up there a few weeks ago. It is strikingly Barn Door Bus like in it’s shape. It took a bit of poking around on the InnerTubes but I have learned something about it. I never seem to have my camera with me when I go buy this odd ball. Hopefully, I will remember yet.

Kurtis "Tommy Lee Roadster"
Behold, the 1937 Kurtis “Tommy Lee Roadster”. A thing of beauty from the golden age of American auto styling. A “one-off” for a wealthy Southern California auto dealer’s son. Timed at over 120mph on the salt flats, this charmer was reputed to have cost over $25,000 to build. My incredible mathematical mind says that is worth 42 Trillion in 2010 dollars (also known as Monopoly Money). Tommy Lee was supposed to be on the block this weekend at Gooding’s Scottsdale Auction. With the weather they had this week. One only knows at this moment what the status of this sale is.
Read more:
Goodings
Hemmings
Old Cars Weekly
From the “Get The F*&% Out A Here” files comes this beaut. Found on Ebay. I put this in the ShamWow category. As in, Wow, What a Sham. I would rather have the whole thing. (Thanks to the guys at Hooniverse for finding this crack pipe)
Here is one for the JEEBUS files:

Dobbertin DHC
Specs:
Engine: 572 c.i.d. 695 hp Merlin
Transmission: All Wheel Drive QUADZILLA 4L80E with ATLAS transfer case
Speed on land: 125 mph (claimed)
Speed on water: 50mph (claimed)
Hydrofoiled
Looks like a Fieroghini build gone interestingly awry.
Seymour here and here.
Where does a dead Porsche go? Look here.
One of my favorite things to do on a snowy afternoon is to look around Google Earth and try to find race courses. Some, like Circuit Sarthe, aka Le Mans, are not easy to find. Others, like the Nordschleife, are much easier. Over at Tam’s Old Race Car site, they are finding ones that no longer exist.











If only the car looked THAT GOOD…












