Four-Links – ittybitty streamliner, little Buddy, Microbus with a speaker, baby autos

* The greatest thing about land-speed racing, especially in the 1950s, was that there were no formulas. It’s you, your imagination, and some sort of engine versus the wind. Alan Richards decided to go as lightweight as possible, with as little rolling resistance as possible, and thus came up with this Garelli-powered streamliner that hit 55.62 MPH. ze Last Chance Garage has more.

*The Minutia Blog is always good for an obscure microcar or two, such as the  Hungarian Pajtas (Buddy), which featured gullwing doors and all sorts of visibility. Which may or may not be a good thing.

* Look closely at the above toy Microbus and, without clicking through to Big Blue’s Online Carburetor blog, tell us what it does. Hint: It’s not a transistor radio.

*Was it really such a different time in the 1930s when a magazine can write “It’s a safe bet to say that at one time or another practically every man in America has built himself a home-made vehicle embodying his own ideas in automotive construction.” One has to wonder, then, how many submissions Modern Mechanics and Inventions received for their announced contest for home-built baby autos.

* Finally, another small-car site. It’s in French, but there’s plenty of photos of microcars out touring, which we wholeheartedly support.