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Finally learned what the J.A.P. racecar is! J A Prestons blimp engined cycle car
Above images from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=226791&showall=1
Above images from http://gasballoon.com/V8JAP.htm
Air cooled V8 with exposed valvetrain and "total loss" oiling.
Full gallery at http://tomorrowday.blogspot.com/2010/01/ja-preston-cyclecar.html
Tri-cars from 100 years ago were the less expensive option to early automobiles, cheap fun transportation
For a bigger photo of just one, (these were all small and just pieces of one large photo) see the 1906 Indianhttp://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/03/1906-indian-tricar-sometimes-victorian.html
a variety cool and unusual vehicles from steampunkvehicles.tumblr.com
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Above, kids home made flivver. Think any kids try making their own cars anymore? Doubt it.
Above, a MGM movie publicising sound train I haven't come across before http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/Sound%20Train
Aero streamline tow truck... looks like a Count De Sakhnoffsky design, middle of the following post http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/09/extraordinary-designer-of-automotive.html
Custom worked Pierce Arrow?
Above, stream line your Model T at home!
Above, 1914 Alfa Romeo streamliner
Above 1905 Bordeaux Cali Limousine.
Above 1917...don't have a maker
Above 1920 in California
Above Queensland
Tank on rails, WW 1? Clever that the rail rims are mounted to the ordinary tires and rims
Gravity fed fuel system, quite the jalopyhttp://steampunkvehicles.tumblr.com/ a source for many cool and unusual cars, highly recommended
rail inspection cars found on Steampunkvehicles.tumblr.com
above 1926 Chev
Might be Dodge truck cabs, and both the above and below are from New Zealand
Above a Nattrass Rail Tractor
Above photo was in South America
http://steampunkvehicles.tumblr.com/is a source for many cool and unusual cars, highly recommended
1971 Lincoln Continental Farm and Ranch special, some exec thought Lincoln owners needed a truck 30 years before the 2001 Blackwood
How about that? It's the earliest Lincoln truck I've ever seen, and the only Ranchero like Lincoln I've ever seen. The 2001 Lincoln Blackwood was the Neiman Marcus special 50, and in 2002 they made the truck for one year. Basically it was a upscale F150 cab with an outsourced bed.Found on http://caughtatthecurb.blogspot.com/2011/04/1971-lincoln-continental-mark-iii-farm.html and on Ebay with a reserve that is higher than the bidding is ever going to get. $5855 so far.
One very unusual limousine, one very small woman, the 1912 Cole 40 limo, and the worlds smallest woman
Just look at the full size version, and the details of how they made a relatively sized full cab for her in place of an ordinary back seat in a 7 passenger touring car, and just below and behind the driver is a set of stairs, and a regular trunk under the footman on the back. Thanks to Navarro Zonta who shared this with Nik of http://carrosantigos.wordpress.com/ who finds all the coolest stuff! 
Bottom two images are from a great source of info and factory sales brochure images: http://www.american-automobiles.com/Cole-1919-1925.html
