The Wartburg 353W was an East German built family sedan produced starting in 1968 and continuing with only minor changes all the way to 1988. In that time over 1 million of the oil burning 2-stroke powered sedans were released into the world, but you’ll be hard pressed to see one in the wild today. […]
You might expect something called the DKW Junior Deluxe to come from an establishment that uses a pedophile clown, slutty heiress or creepy wax statue monarch for a spokesman, but the Junior Deluxe was an automobile built from 1959 to 1965 by Auto Union AG. It is also one of the most unconventional 60’s cars […]
The SAAB 96 was introduced in 1960 as a front drive streamlined styled descendant of the UrSAAB. Proper capitalizing all of the letters in SAAB is well…proper…because it’s actually an acronym, standing for Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget which translates to Swedish Aeroplane Ltd. The early cars definitely had an aeronautical aura about them with blunt front, […]
The 2-stroke engine is a nasty piece of business that belches smoke and wakes you up on Saturday mornings when gardeners descend on suburbia like modern day locusts with leaf blower backpacks. 2-stroke engines are a plague and should be banned …except… when pushing around a vintage piece of Swedish steel…then, they are cool. Find […]
The calabash was the one of the first cultivated foods in the world, grown over 8,000 years ago for use as a vessel for holding fluids and known as the ‘bottle gourd.’ The exterior color of the calabash isn’t exactly what you’d expect on a sporting automobile, but it is essentially what was used […]