"History is a wonderful thing, if only it was true"
-Tolstoy

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

All car

From 1972
Never got to see this in person, but loved the ideas
All car ... nothing but mechanicals...wonderful stuff.

Mechanical for it's own sake

Road & Track Magazine


An elegant requiem for the
Golden Age of the Automobile


“Master Chassis”



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photos: M d”Hamer





by Hal Crippen


THE FIRST CAR of Don Potts is actually an extraordinary assemblage—a concours d’elegance of one man’s work. The title itself has a sort of parallel to Tom Swift and his Electric Runabout and the objects themselves are resonant with the objects of a now—lost American boyhood—an American Flyer wagon, a soap box derby car, a first bicycle—but here raised to the Nth power of imagination.



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“Master Chassis”




At a time when true craftsmanship, and even the idea of it, is fast disappearing in automobiles, and even the very existence of the automobile is called into question, Don Potts has paid a necessary act of homage to the greatest of automobiles. One thinks of Bugattis, Lancia Lambdas, early MGs, birdcage Maserati frames.

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