AMX/3 fans: we have a great story for you. In fact, Torq-O is the first outlet to have the complete story for you.

Tom Dulaney is one lucky AMC fan. He's bought the very first, almost-forgotten, AMX/3: a push car that AMC showed to the public at the 1970 Chicago Auto Show.

Find out why the car was built, how it disappeared for 34 years, and what Tom plans to do with it.

This version is the MP3 (audio only) version. Stay tuned for the Enhanced Version featuring pictures of the car and its "offspring." It's all coming soon.

For more AMC-related podcasts, check out our Podcasts page.

Alex Watt has a problem. He bought a car off of eBay. It looks like a broken-down, low rent piece of lawn art. But Alex saw what he thinks are some very rare bones: the remains of a 1901 Peerless.

We recently read about his story on the Veteran Autolamps web site.

He spotted the car in an eBay listing and drove his pickup 4,700 miles round trip to Florida to pick up the collection of wood, rusty metal, and 10-speed tires for wheels.

What makes this Brass Era bucket of bolts special is that if it really is a Peerless, it's one hell of a rare buggy.

Peerless was a high-priced marque often revered as highly as Packard and Pierce-Arrow. In 1901, Watt believes that the company made only about 150 cars. To make things more difficult (or more interesting, depending on your POV), documents and photos of early Peerless cars are just as scarce as the cars themselves.

So what gives Watt the bright idea that he has a Peerless? "The car has a very different control system," he explained to us. "The steering and control arm is on the right side of the car with the gear shift located below the steering arm," he continued. "The brake is located on the inside edge of the seat, and the throttle is on the outside edge adjacent to the brake lever."

Incredibly, Watt has had some luck finding parts for the 106 year-old car. "So far we have found the correct engine, a 2 & 3/4 horse De Dion Bouton single cylinder (engine)." But he still has a few things to locate before he's ready for the London to Brighton Run. "The other items that I am still searching for are the gearbox, the rear axle, and the correct wheels."

Watt could use your help. He's still not absolutely sure the car is a Peerless. "If anyone knows of any other car that has this control configuration I would like to know." He also needs documentation. "I am also looking for any photographs that will help me ensure that the restoration is correct."

Can anyone help Alex put this unique one-banger back on the road? If so, send some email to Alex. He'd love to hear from you.

Friends and Investors:

I have something for you to look at. Since the Gremlin/Pacer DVD is still in progress, I thought I'd share some of the progress with you.

Take a look at our autoplay movie. It's the first thing you'll see when you pop the DVD into your DVD player. (The rest of the menus will be more straightforward, but I thought all of you who invested your money and have waited ve-e-e-ery patiently would enjoy this.)

Kaiser fans: you'll love this podcast. Frazer fans: we're gonna break your heart.

We talk with Jack Mueller, a walking Kaiser-Frazer encyclopedia and author of the recent book Built to Better the Best.

Jack shares some good, bad, and ugly facts about the often-renamed Kaiser-Frazer Corporation. And if you always thought that company co-founder Joseph Frazer was a hero, Jack has some revisionist advice for you: you don't know Joe.

This podcast is special for another reason: we've added pictures! See what we're talking about while we're talking about it. Check out the new Torq-O podcast on our Podcast page now!

Now you do!

While I was surfing around through the Car Type web site, I saw the Rickenbacker logo. I wondered if there was a car club for the car named after America's Ace of Aces, Eddie Rickenbacker. It didn't take long to find the Rickenbacker Car Club of America through Google.

Barney Everitt and Walter Flanders of E-M-F fame started the Rickenbacker marque in 1921. Eddie lent his name to the company and became its national sales manager.

Although the web sites are unclear about final production figures, it seems that Rickebacker produced under 7,000 cars from 1922 to 1927.

Even though the company went under, Rickenbacker himself stayed involved with automobiles and aviation. He was one of the founders of Eastern Airlines. Plus, in the Torq-O library, we have an incredibly rare record of commercial spots that he recorded for Pontiac in 1935.

The Rickenbacker Club is now listed on our Links to Clubs page.

We are huge fans of the graphic arts here at Torq-O. After all, without designers we'd be driving bricks like the Ford Fairmont.

So we were really psyched to find this fantastic site devoted to automotive logos, fender script, and insignias. It's called Car Type, and it features great visuals from a lot of obscure orphans like Rickenbacker, Kissel, and Jordan.

To go straight to logos and lettering (type), click on the Type tab once you get to the web site. The list of featured car makes and models is listed on the left side of the screen. Enjoy!

I just wanted a photo of the cover of Richard Langworth's book Last Onslaught on Detroit.

I never found it, but I came across a short clip about Kaiser-Frazer from the PBS series Great Cars. (Where did they find that vintage footage of the Aut Swenson Thrillcade Henry J's jumping each other?)

So, does anyone have a photo of the cover of Langworth's book?