Author Archives: John Gunnell

For the last 4-5 weeks my mechanic friend Vince Sauberlich and I have been fixing an exhaust leak on my ’89 Caprice cop car. Even though we only work together once a week, that may still sound like a lot … More »

I won a trophy today for taking my ’48 Pontiac Streamliner sedan to the Pontiac Oakland club International’s revived Badgerland Chapter Meet in Oshkosh, Wis. Actually, none of my cars are in “trophy winning” condition and the real reason I … More »

In 1965, Bill and Bob Summers took a long, skinny, homemade car with four Hemis lined up in a row and went to Bonneville to take the World Land Speed Record away from Great Britain. The record had formerly been … More »

Nearly 300 older cars and trucks drove to Clintonville. Wis., the evening of May 20 to participate in the city’s annual car show. Clintonville is the birthplace of four-wheel-drive technology. The Badger Four-Wheel Drive Auto Company was founded there in … More »

Ed Casar’s Done-Rite Automotive (www.doneriteautomotive.com) is located in in Mosinee, Wis. Although Ed’s father started the business during a 1980s recession, the company’s fully-equipped eat-off-the-floor facility is set up to use 2011 technology to make classic and modern street cars … More »

Carl Wegner has been around performance for at least as long as Kelly. After graduating high school in the ‘60s, he worked at John Schlieper’s speed shop in Brookfield, Wis., building engines for Modifieds and USAC racing cars and Top … More »

Ed Casar’s Done-Rite Automotive (www.doneriteautomotive.com) is located in in Mosinee, Wis. Although Ed’s father started the business during a 1980s recession, the company’s fully-equipped eat-off-the-floor facility is set up to use 2011 technology to make classic and modern street cars … More »