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I have been inspired by a spirited conversation with ~typhlosionskingdom to draw this rare and unsung American car.

I first read of the H-M (High-Mileage) Vehicles Freeway in one of a pile of old car magazines I was given in the mid-Eighties. That particular magazine was the December 1979 issue of Motor Trend and the subtitle read something like: "Why drive a carriage if you only need a horse?"

The Freeway (or FreeWay or Free-Way... ) had four motor options. The base Freeway was a 11 hp single-cylinder Tecumseh gasoline engine. The options were a larger (16 hp) gasoline engine, a diesel engine (extremely rare), and an electric motor of about 4 to 6 hp.

The car could carry a driver and a fair amount of groceries. A small person could fit under the hatch in a pinch (literally... ) but the manufacturer did not recommend this.

Production began in 1979 and ended in 1982, after about 700 had been built.

References for this drawing were taken from this site: [link]

Sketch done with orange coloured pencil and then inked, erased, and scanned.

Lineart was refined by tracing the scanned sketch, altering the trace with Wite-Out, re-scanning the trace, and altering the rescan with MSPaint.

Colouring done with ArcSoft PhotoImpression 3.

Description
I have been inspired by a spirited conversation with ~typhlosionskingdom to draw this rare and unsung American car.

I first read of the H-M (High-Mileage) Vehicles Freeway in one of a pile of old car magazines I was given in the mid-Eighties. That particular magazine was the December 1979 issue of Motor Trend and the subtitle read something like: "Why drive a carriage if you only need a horse?"

The Freeway (or FreeWay or Free-Way... ) had four motor options. The base Freeway was a 11 hp single-cylinder Tecumseh gasoline engine. The options were a larger (16 hp) gasoline engine, a diesel engine (extremely rare), and an electric motor of about 4 to 6 hp.

The car could carry a driver and a fair amount of groceries. A small person could fit under the hatch in a pinch (literally... ) but the manufacturer did not recommend this.

Production began in 1979 and ended in 1982, after about 700 had been built.

References for this drawing were taken from this site: [link]

Sketch done with orange coloured pencil and then inked, erased, and scanned.

Lineart was refined by tracing the scanned sketch, altering the trace with Wite-Out, re-scanning the trace, and altering the rescan with MSPaint.

Colouring done with ArcSoft PhotoImpression 3.