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Saturday, October 31, 2009
Beware of cops hiding around corners... don't roll through this stop sign at the Southbound 805 exit at Adams Ave
0 comments Posted by st at 1:45 PMLabels: police
Here's a new way to do self guided tours of a few cities... San Diego, San Fran, Miami, Barcelona, and Lisbon
0 comments Posted by st at 1:34 PMLabels: tour bus
try a 70 mpg at 40mph! 1000cc motor, 51 Hp. http://clunkbucket.com/nissan-pao-in-socal/ for a article and gallery
Closely realted to another cute little Nissan, the Figaro: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/03/nissan-figaro-cute-little-thing-rare.html
Labels: Nissan, speedometer
Friday, October 30, 2009
Wow, how the Atomic Punk was built.. Find the trunk of a Savoy, make a bubble, section a bumper..!
0 comments Posted by st at 10:18 PM
Via: http://scootermcrad.blogspot.com/2009_04_01_archive.html
You've got to get over to Scooter's and enjoy it!
Scooter McRad's blog, you've got to look it over, besides posting great stuff, he's almost finished with a hemi powered rat rod
0 comments Posted by st at 2:33 PMLabels: Bonneville, machine turned, photography
Above is a slightly different angle from the same photographer and via: http://fuckyeahcarculture.tumblr.com
Labels: Bonneville, photographer, photography
Get ready before the snow falls, make a snow motor from an old tractor or Model T
0 comments Posted by st at 1:43 PM above: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=229248&showall=1
Labels: snowmobile
Imagine that you are in 1909, and taking this out for its maiden voyage... hoping all the nuts and bolts are tight, and that nothing was forgotten in the final assembly.
Celebrating the art deco movement, the French Curves Collection exemplifies the zenith of the French automobile, including beautifully styled and amazingly engineered French-built cars covering several decades: Bugattis, Delages, Delahayes, Hispano Suizas, Talbot-Lagos and Voisins, many have won awards at concours d'elegance, and a number of the race cars have been past winners of historic races, such as the Grand Prix de Pau and Le Mans.
Labels: Bugatti, car collections, car collectors, collection, collector, Delahaye, museum
This is the rare XK-SS Jaguar that (I didn't know) Von Dutch made a glove box door for, because the open box was always spilling it's contents, and Steve was fed up with that
Labels: Steve McQueen
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Labels: art, pinstriping
For the full text from this article see: http://www.angelfire.com/biz/snwvlly/bikes/steve.htm
Labels: Motorcycle, Steve McQueen
Labels: Roth
Labels: advertising, Roth
I recently learned that my granddad had a GT350... and this is the only photo of it I know about
0 comments Posted by st at 9:04 PM After my granddad it belonged to my Uncle Kirk (pictured)
Thanks to my cousins Caitlin, Becky, and Bruce for collectively making it possible for me to post this photo!
From my Uncle "one of the first 500 gT350s actually. He also knew Carrol Shelby somehow and paid 4280 dollars for it if my memory is correct. When he died it went to your Uncle Kirk (in the photo) who had it when he died. My dad had put in a Boss 302 engine in it and stored the original motor in Sidnaw where it may or may not be anymore. It had been covered with a tarp but got water in it and one of the cylinders rusted. I may still have the intake and dual pump dual feed carbs from it but not sure. Aunt Yvonne has pictures of the car I'm sure. It had no back seat and a spare tire sat where the seat would have been. Blue stripes ran along the running board and the rest was white with Goodyear bluedot tires. It had orange Mallory ignition and Detroit locker rear end that would go bang in a sharp turn when it unlocked. It had koni shocks and the exhaust came out in front of the rear tires straight off the headers. The original engine was a 289 cuvinch and was very hard to start in cold weather of the UP, so dad put a battery in the trunk and hooked it in paralel to the front battery to turn it over and start in the winter. It handled very well and turned on a dime. It was very fast to around 100 mPH and topped out around 135mph at 6800rpm."
I'm blown away at how cool it is that my grand dad had a Shelby, and then one of my uncles after him, and that another uncle has this incredible memory to recall the details so correctly (notice the exhaust, the colors all match his memory from about 40 years ago!)
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
For all the info, go to the link: http://motorcycleart.blogspot.com/2009/09/its-von-dutch-thing.html
I don't remember where I found these images... but they are very cool
0 comments Posted by st at 8:11 AMLabels: Bonneville, Chi-town Hustler, dragsters, flopper, Ford, Funny car, Mercury