Club of the month - Crosley Automobile Club

Powel Crosley put his name on many products over the years and many were very innovative, his car was no exception. The Crosley was "A Fine Car" and the Crosley Automobile Club Inc. is a fine club. Their club magazine is always an interesting read. For all you Crosley buffs out there, don't miss the CAC Nationals this week July 10 - 12 , 2008. For all your Crosley information check out their club website -

http://www.crosleyautoclub.com/

The Minicars Turn Out At Guptill's

Guptill's (north of Latham, New York) is the site of a series of summer cruises. While the typical fare is muscle cars and hotrods, the crew at Hemmings attended the June Cruise-In and found several minicars in attendance. (Maybe $4/gallon gas is starting to have an effect on the car show circuit.)

The white 1948 Crosley Station Wagon wears the chrome nose cone and radiator bars that identify it as a late-1948 model. If Crosley's are your kind of car, don't miss the Crosley Nationals, scheduled for July 10-12 in Wauseon, Ohio.

And the two-tone (black & red) Mini sports a "AWHAT" vanity plate.

HOT ROD Crosley (with a 295 cu. in. Mercury engine)

At Bonneville you sometimes have to squint to figure out what kind of car was used to make some of the Salt Speedsters. And based on this Crosley Sedan that ran in the 1952 Bonneville Nationals, this has been the case for a number of years.

This sleek Crosley (imagine that..."sleek" and "Crosley" in the same sentence), featured on the cover of the January 1953 issue of HOT ROD Magazine was built by Dick Hubbard and Al Palamides of Oakland, California. The nose and belly pan were hand-formed aluminum, while the body came from a Crosley sedan -- chopped and lowered three inches.

The team went to Bonneville with three engines -- one Ford and two Mercs. The 217 cu. in. Ford took them to a record average of 131.96 in the "B" Competition Sedan Class, while one of the Mercs took second place in the "C" Class with an average speed of 149.93.

Look for more about fast Crosleys in an upcoming posting.

A World of Blogs

When you start looking around you come to realize that "there's a world of blogs out there."

The folks at Hemmings have been kind enough to give us permission to use some photos in MINUTIA, and they even featured the editor's 1959 Berkeley in the August 2007 issue of Sports & Exotic Car -- so we were pleased to see that minicars and microcars are often featured in the Hemmings Auto Blogs.

A posting from just earlier today features a Crosley Ice Cream truck and a Trabant. So check it out.