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The last feature on the “Georgia Peach” was in early January of this year, so an update on the restoration is in order. The rebuild of the engine transmission, and overdrive had to wait until after the 1914 Simplex was on its way back to the Collier Museum in Naples, FL. In the middle of…
The New Year has arrived which makes for the perfect time to clean off the desk so to speak and bring you up to speed with what has been accomplished on the “Georgia Peach” Volvo 122s project over the last six months. Due to the 1914 Simplex project taking much longer than expected, not as…
Just a short post here today due to the fact that the last two days have been very busy finishing up the Simplex project chassis before the body is placed back on to it today. After test running the 600-c.i.d. T-head engine, it was then used to check the operation of the clutch, transmission, differential,…
The Jam Handy series of films produced for Chevrolet in the thirties have proven popular with readers, so today, the subject being covered is automobile brakes. The 1936 film “Hydraulics” provides an excellent demonstration showing how a system operates, and how it is applied to an automobile. The second film, “Facts on Friction” produced in…
Updated – The Enger Motor Car Company of Cincinnati, Ohio, built its first machine, a two-cylinder high wheeler in 1909. The following year a moderately priced conventional four-cylinder touring car was offered, and this model continued with minor changes through 1914. Enger received quite a bit of attention in the press in 1915 when it introduced…
This is the third in a series of short films produced by the Jam Handy organization for Chevrolet in 1935 to be shown here. In the video, the thought-provoking engineering principals that have gone into the advancement of the parallel half-elliptic spring suspension system in the automaker’s cars is shown. A number of actual demonstrations of the…
Updated – Andre Dubonnet was a French Military pilot, racing driver and inventor, who designed the Dubonnet independent suspension. His father Joseph Dubonnet was the founder of the Dubonnet wine-based aperitif beverage company, which allowed Andre the funding to work on his inventions and automobiles. In conjunction with engineer Antoine-Marie Chedru, he developed and patented a…
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