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Showing posts with label race cars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label race cars. Show all posts
Saturday, September 3, 2011
Briggs Cunningham, with just a choice selection of his race cars.
0 comments Posted by st at 8:47 PM
Monday, August 29, 2011
Recent barnfinds recently located, a Briggs Cunningham C3 and the Ak Miller "Caballo II"
0 comments Posted by st at 8:17 PMTom Cotter found a 1952 Cunningham, the 1952 Vignale bodied 2nd prototype of Cunninghams 25 C3s in Greenville South Carolina
photo is of a restored 1952 C3, http://www.coachbuild.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=40478
Tom Shaughnessy found the Caballo II: the 1957 Kurtis 500X "El Caballo II", built with a 354 Hemi power, a Frank Kurtis-built chassis, and an aluminum body.
Above image is the Caballo II during the Mille Miglia, found on the H.A.M.B. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=160931
Saturday, August 6, 2011
912 Porsche customized for racing, glass replaced with plexiglass, door handles and stainless trim replaced with plastic (?) and window cranks replaced with leather pulls straps
0 comments Posted by st at 1:53 PM
Saturday, July 30, 2011
According to the book "Von Dutch: The Art, The Myth, The Legend" the first airbrushed "monster" shirts were done by Von Dutch, and I've posted earlier that a lot of others got into that business, Ed Roth, Jeffries, and Mouse were selling them http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/monster%20shirts
This is the dash of the Hirohota Merc
Chrismans famous "Old 25" http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/05/oldest-surviving-dragster-and-it-was.html the oldest known hot rod
this is a very sought after piece of racing car history. No one knows where it is, but everyone knows that is was on the front of the Chavaliers club race car
I like the louvered fenders with flames, it's very unique, and I doubt anyone ever copied it
This was the first I'd learned that Reventon had Vond Dutch pinstripe and number the scarabs
The above Corvette was the daily drive of Eric Rickman, best known of all the Hot Rod photographers
I'm sure this van has to have went to a junkyard long ago, but if it ever turns up it will be a treasure of Von Dutch's work... hell, what an eyeball on the nose!
and Von Dutch's Kenford, and the adjustment levers are just damn terrific. Not shown is "Le Dump Tube" that Von Dutch put into through the floor so he could get rid of beer cans before cops found them in his truck...
He didn't think a door handle was cool, because anyoen could use it to get in... so he made his own wrench to open the door from the outside. This is a cool custom idea.
Stan Betz was a louver puncher and body man, and possibly Von Dutch's best friend, and beneficiary of a ton of free work, and knives and guns
the above flame jopb is comical and ingenious, the yellow flame telling the sperm following him to turn back, it's a blow job. Yup, right on Stans business truck fender. Von Dutch was in such high demand for so much of his life that it made him bitter, obnoxious, and he offended many people just to get breathing room, the rest he bacame a hermit to get away from.
Sunday, July 10, 2011
the Italia that won the race is here: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/08/winner-of-1907-paris-to-peking.html
The challenge to drive from Peking, China (modern day Beijing) to Paris, France in 1907, using totally untested automobiles, was taken up by five men:
- Prince Scipione Borghese, accompanied by his mechanic Ettore Guizzardi. They were further accompanied by Italian journalist Luigi Barzini, Sr.
- Charles Goddard, accompanied by journalist Jean du Taillis.
- Auguste Pons and Octave Foucault, his mechanic.
- Georges Cormier.
- Victor Collignon.
On the 30th of August, twenty days later, the Spyker, followed by the two De Dions, arrived in Paris. Charles Goddard wasn’t behind the wheel of the Spyker; due to money-troubles, he wasn’t able to finish the race! But his car won second place and that was probably good enoughfound on http://scheong.wordpress.com/2010/02/25/peking-to-paris-the-original-amazing-race/
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
I think the pinstriping design is great, but the humor of painting on a keyhole is terrific
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