Clive Cussler's Cars....

[Sean]

A year or two ago, we touched on Clive Cussler and his cars. I stumbled across this site a few minutes ago, showing pictures of a lot of his cars.

http://www.cusslermuseum.com/

For those that haven't heard of Cussler, he is a popular author that writes adventure novels. The movie "Sahara" that came out a while back was based on one of his books.

He usually has a scene or two  in each book involving classic cars. Sometimes they end up destroyed, like the Cord that was driven down a ski slope, or the famous Ghia Chrysler "Norseman" that is located in the hull of the sunken liner "Andrea Doria".

He even used the "Snow Cruiser" in one of his books. It was designed for traveling across the snow and ice-flows in Antarctica, but once they got it down there, it turned out to be a flop. Its still down there, somewhere.

http://www.joeld.net/snowcruiser/snowhist.html

Along with collecting Coachwork cars, Cussler also hunts for Shipwrecks. He is the one who found the Confederate Submarine "Hunley", that was successfully retrieved. The way I see it, at least he is spending his millions in an admirable way...

[Sean]

Here are some movie clips showing the Snow cruiser in action.

http://www.joeld.net/snowcruiser/snowvids.html

It must have been pretty amazing to see something like that in 1939. Somebody should bring it back to the US and restore it. Might be part of an Iceberg now though...

[EMSjunkie]

What an interesting bit of history.

that snow cruiser was gigantic!!
no wonder it sank it the snow.

Thanks for sharing Sean, I appreciate it.

Vance

[enjenjo]

The giant tire used on Bigfoot were spares made for the Snow Cruiser in 1939.