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Squirrels Of Fury Scirocco Ventilates Engine Block, Goes Out In Blaze Of Glory [24 Hours Of Lemons]

We're in the final hour of racing here at Thunderhill, and we can't say who the favorite is at this point. What we can tell you is that oil-coated VWs burn really well.



Here's the scene under the hood of the Squirrels Of Fury car. Oh sure, you've seen LeMons cars with holes in the engine block before, but the Squirrels take it to a new level...


Yes, that's a flashlight shining all the way through the block. The car had been leaking oil for quite a while, so the engine compartment and underside were thoroughly coated. When Mr. Connecting Rod finally decided he'd had enough, the resulting blast of hot flying metal and combustion gases set the oil alight.

Many thanks to Zandr Milewski of Team Dead Smurfs for the unspeakably amazing burning-VW photographs!




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Four-Links – photo (and video) archive dig edition

Excelsior bike shop

* We noticed several archival digs in our wanderings around the Internet this last week, so we thought we’d highlight them here. Starting with The New Cafe (Racer) Society’s find of this picture of the Wyoming Cyclery and its Excelsior bikes over at the University of Wyoming’s American Heritage Center. UW dates the photo from 1914 and notes the cyclery was located at 1711 Pioneer Avenue in Cheyenne. The buildings in the area certainly look of the age.

White tour bus

* Next up, and remaining out West for a moment, a photo from the Sherratt Library of Southern Utah University, via the Mountain West Digital Library, showing a Utah Parks Company open tour bus in the 1930s. We know it’s a White, but we really can’t add much more info to the picture.

Cadillac and Studebaker dealership

* This is the perfect opportunity to grab a photo from Shorpy, which has plenty of automobile-related photos from their archive digs. This one, submitted by John Debold, shows the Joseph F. Stein Cadillac-Studebaker dealership in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Stein was apparently prominent enough to warrant an obit in the New York Times on his death in 1990. Helen-Chantal Pike’s book on Asbury Park notes that the dealership was located on Main Street between Monroe and Sewall avenues.

* We mentioned video archives, and one of the best places for video archive digging is YouTube. Murilee Martin over at Jalopnik recently pulled together 14 AMC ads, including the Pacer ad above.

Gary Grant's dad's AMX

* Finally, Gary Grant over at theGarageBlog has been going through the fat packet of photos his father recently sent him and uncovered some treasures, such as this 1969 AMX his father raced, caught at Mosport, a shot of Mo Carter in his Camaro at Harewood Acres and a shot of the P&G Special.



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