O Scale Motor Vehicle Chronicle Jan 22

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THANKS AGAIN FOR SHARING YOUR PHOTOS AND KNOWLEDGE.

BUZZ

Way back in 1959 when I worked in a gas station we had a Hotshot for sale that had a Ford flat head V-8 60, trans and rear end installed, 16 inch wheels on the back. Must have been real fast but I'm certain it was a scary ride as nothing was done to improve the brakes and etc.

Scotie

Thanks for posting. The Crosleys are interesting little cars.  Some of them are so crude-looking they look more like kit cars. 

One minor correction - it's Waukesha engines. As it happens, my family is originally from Waukesha County, Wisconsin, of which Waukesha, home and namesake of Waukesha engines, is the county seat. There was a lot of railroad activity there as the Milwaukee Road had a depot and some other things there.

When I was  a kid in a little tank town on the Southern, (1945-48 ), there was a guy in a house down on the creek's flood plain, across the bridge, that had a number of the carcasses of various Crosleys around his property, with usually one or two running.  The bridge was condemned and the road routed around, and the cars have been long gone for years.  Later in another town not far away, a kid in highschool, who grew up to become a lawyer, had a Hotshot that he drove to school.  Another kid from a farm outside the first town, had the first MG TD I saw, and drove that to school, once racing my brother and I on the way to school, on a road of 90 degree turns.  He would catch up to us in our mother's 1954 Powerglide Chevy on the curves, but we outran him on the straight aways.