From the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool – Unimog, Winnie Hogg, Scout prototype and two red Chevrolets

It doesn’t take much to get me fired up. For instance, seeing this Unimog rescue vehicle that Hemmings Nation Flickr pool member Bluejacket recently posted, that’ll have me bouncing in my seat like a third-grader for the rest of the afternoon. From the tags, it looks like he spotted the ‘Mog in Castine, Maine.

Hugo90, besides posting scans of very unusual foreign car brochures, posted this photo from about 1982, when the owner of Winnie Hogg Dodge died, leaving these older Mopars to go up for auction. Should probably investigate that location for our Lost Dealerships series.

Does this 1979 Scout prototype look familiar? If you’re a longtime blog reader, it should – Litwin spotted it last year at the ACD Museum, and now we see that papafiesta spotted it there too.

Finally, new Hemmings Nation Flickr pool member sheribuch711 posted some photos of the family’s new 1971 Nova, here posed next to their 1962 Impala. Much like a ‘Mog, posting pics of a 1971 Nova will almost always grab my attention.

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Four-Links – Crawford museum selling off cars, how to sell a Rebel Machine, old Daytona 500 footage, build threads galore

* We start off this week with news that the Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum has announced that they’ll be selling off about 20 cars from its collection, including a 1956 Mercedes-Benz 300SL gullwing coupe and the above 1919 Locomobile Type 48 Sportif. The museum’s website says it’s normal to sell off items that are determined to be non-essential to the collection if they are either duplicates or not mission-related, but the Cleveland Plain-Dealer notes that the sale is to keep the museum financially solvent and to erase some debt. (via)

* I can’t imagine what it must’ve been like to be an AMC salesman back around 1970. You’re trying to sell exciting performance cars like the Rebel Machine to younger buyers, and you’re instructed to sell it by one of the most droll sales training slideshows I’ve ever seen. Then again, what sales training slideshow was ever not droll? (via)

* Though it’s not the entire video, reader Marc Tyler uncovered some snippets of a Florida film archive video on the Daytona 500. The snippets, though, are still pretty neat. Gotta love the full dashboards and shirtsleeve driving exhibited in the in-car camera.

* If you’ve spent enough time on Internet car forums, you’re probably well acquainted with the build thread, in which somebody posts photos of every step of his car’s restoration or build-up. For some forums, these are about the only reason worth visiting, and one guy has started pulling good build threads out of the car forums and posting them to his blog, saving us the hassle of slogging through all those forums.

* Finally, another new-to-us blog, this one – AirMighty -all about the air-cooled Volkswagen in its many forms. Lots of show coverage, and thus, plenty of photos. Looks like he has a thing for the oddball variants and the slammed and modified ones. (via)

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Oh, baby. Art Gerrick lakes modified headed to auction

A few weeks ago, I wrote up a preview of the upcoming RM Icons of Speed and Style auction for the Hemmings e-Weekly Newsletter, but ever since, I’ve been enthralled by the cars that will be offered at the auction. In particular, if there’s one car there I would sell a kidney or other body part for, it wouldn’t be the Deora or the Road Agent or the Khougaz roadster. It would be the Art Gerrick lakes modified.

RM has it listed as lot R23, estimated to go for $40,000 to $60,000, officially described as thus:

1923 Ford Model T Lakes Roadster
Chassis no. NA

This early hot-rodded roadster was one of the first “cutaway” feature stories in Hot Rod Magazine, which covered the car extensively in the May 1951 issue. Construction of the car began in 1936, and by the early 1950s, it was superseded by newer, more powerful, and more aerodynamic designs such as the post-war belly tankers and jet cars.  By 1951 its days of thunder neared the end as SCTA inspections became more rigid leaving few surviving examples of these unique and historic speed demons.

Power is by a highly modified Ford 4-cylinder engine with a Rajo Model BB-R cylinder head, which was an important early add-on speed component, before the “flathead” V8 overwhelmingly became the engine of choice for competition.

The full-length, highly polished exhaust pipe is actually an early Ford torque tube. This was another widely used accessory in the 1930s-early 1950s, indicative of the resourcefulness of early hot rodders.

This, my friends, is the quintessential lakes modified. It carries as little weight as possible, it’s been narrowed 10 inches to cheat the wind (and sports a nifty windshield for the same purpose), and it runs a hot little four-banger. In fact, I’d bet Gerrick poured 10 times as much money into that engine as he did into the Olds-framed chassis and hammered-together body combined. It’s beyond Spartan; it’s the model for the democratic purpose-built racing machine, approachable by anybody with a wrench, access to a junkyard and a pair of cojones. It’s the product of a short, but highly important and formative era for land-speed racing, at a time when all racing was done on the dry lakes or on the streets, and ingenuity and thrift reigned rather than the concept of cubic dollars and 1-800-street rods.

The auction will take place September 26 at the Petersen Automotive Museum.

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