The local McDonald's has a cruise night every Tuesday night. Nothing real extensive or formal, just 75 or so cars of every style, from Packards and Duesenbergs to hotrods to muscle cars to ratrods to 4x4's to exotics. Many are the same but there are usually a dozen or so different ones into the mix. My two youngest sons and I were coming back from my 7yo's Challenger League baseball game and we decided to pop in.

Came across this Davis. I'd never seen nor heard of them before. There is a Davis Registry website. Apparently built in Van Nuys, CA back in the late 40's. Although it was reported that there were only 17 built but, including 3 military and 2 prototype vehicles, they have registered 18. This one doesn't appear to be registered so I passed the info. on to the site as well as the owner.

Funky, three wheeled car. Sorry about the iPhone pics.








(That's my baseball player making faces at himself in the bumper )

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Thanks swampthing, that car is cool.

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Very cool - looks nicely restored too.

There used to be hundreds of automobile manufacturers in the US. A few years ago I was aimlessly riding my bicycle across Wisconsin and stumbled across a museum dedicated (mostly) to the Kissel motorcar company. Never heard of it before, and I grew up in Detroit around people the live, eat, and sleep cars. Kissel was a high end, high quality product. The museum had an unrestored Kissel flatbed truck that had been used to run deliveries by a local business - for something like 60 years before retiring it. The most interesting thing is they were completely vertically integrated. Every single part of the car was made by Kissel, including every nut and bolt. That lack of efficiency probably also explains why they went out of business.

http://wisconsinautomuseum.com/

Hey Swampthing, is that you in pic #5 with a wig on?

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There was an episode of "Chasing Classic Cars" where F40 Motorsports owner Wayne Carini tracks one down. F40 Motorsports in Portland, CT.

Here's more info.

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=308750

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I've seen the show many times. His shop is about 25 minutes away from my house. Been there several times just to drool.

Kind of an interesting tidbit from that H.A.M.B. thread:
Even though the original post was 12/08, I wonder what the odds are that CT would be home to two of 'em (Purple one could have moved on)? Maybe it was this one after restoration?

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'06 Chevy Tahoe Z71 (for the wife & 4 kids, current mule) '03 Honda Odyssey (son #1's ride, reluctantly) '99 GMC Suburban (255K+ miles, semi-retired mule) 21' SeaRay Seville (summer escape pod)

I, good sir, do not need any hair to compensate for any...deficiencies...in other areas.

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1980 300TD-China Blue/Blue MBTex-2nd Owner, 107K (Alt Blau) OBK #15
'06 Chevy Tahoe Z71 (for the wife & 4 kids, current mule) '03 Honda Odyssey (son #1's ride, reluctantly) '99 GMC Suburban (255K+ miles, semi-retired mule) 21' SeaRay Seville (summer escape pod)

I love that show/place...always drooled going by the place on the way to dino-golf when I was a kid. I ended up going to high school and being involved in several musicals with his daughter, too.

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- 2004 Mazda RALLYWANKEL
- 2007 Saturn sky redline
- 2004 Explorer...under surgery.

Past: 135i, GTI, 300E, 300SD, 300SD, Stealth

And just in case your "standard" 6-71 and 8-71 blowers aren't enough, I present you the 14-71:


It's hard to believe I'm saying this, but it's kind of pointless. I don't know how you could ever feed it enough fuel!

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'06 Chevy Tahoe Z71 (for the wife & 4 kids, current mule) '03 Honda Odyssey (son #1's ride, reluctantly) '99 GMC Suburban (255K+ miles, semi-retired mule) 21' SeaRay Seville (summer escape pod)

Awww at first I thought it was a hover car.

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Yep I drove my first grey market G-Class there earlier this year (Too bad it was too rusty) nice place and they ALWAYS have something of interest. Oddly enough I just read about a small event that will be held at F40 in a couple of weeks.

http://www.mbca.org/cw/index.php?view=details&id=15%3Ajumpstart-anniversary&option=com_eventlist&Itemid=3

What is even crazier is that I know the gentlemen with the 190SL who will be presenting that day

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Yeah, that would be cool.

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'13 Subaru Outback 3.6R
'13 Orbea Carpe 9-speed

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Formerly: 300TD, S600, E55, 560SEL

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-Native American elder

I have seen that very truck. very interesting. my brother also got married in that building.

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