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JOHN P SULLIVAN FOUND A COOL FENDERLESS 1951 STUDEBAKER CHAMPION... WITH ZOOMIES, AT THE 2012 GOODGUYS PPG NATS

found on http://sakeracers.blogspot.com/2012/08/1951-studebaker-champion-starlight.h....

WHAT A 1930'S DUESENBURG CAR DEALERSHIP SHOWROOM MIGHT HAVE LOOKED LIKE

WHAT A 1930'S DUESENBURG CAR DEALERSHIP SHOWROOM MIGHT HAVE LOOKED LIKE.

SOME PEOPLE WAIT A LIFETIME TO FIND A GREAT CAR, SOME FIND IT WHEN THEY ARE A TEEN, AND WAIT A LIFETIME TO WON IT. MARK WAS A FORTUNATE RARITY, HE GOT BOTH THE CAR HE DESIRED 30ISH YEARS AGO, AND IT'S A BARNFIND 1969 GT 500 SHELBY MUSTANG

Mark's neighbor was an attorney that owned 3 Shelby Stangs, acquiring each as payment on cases, and this was the one he drove the most and damaged in the early 80's, and then parked it in the warehouse over his office.

Thursday, December 27, 2012

lawn mower racing blog... I just learned of it. They have good coverage! Worlds fastest mowers type coverage



Above images are from http://www.letsmow.com and this blog is titled, The Cutting Edge. Pretty cool!

Learned about it from the event calendar on http://www.goldeagle.com/event_marketing/engine-answerman-tour.aspx and also borrowed the bottom photo to show you what a Monster Truck treatment does to a lawn mower


FYI, the worlds fastest lawnmower is claimed by the Dixie Chopper Jet Mower built in 1991 by Dixie Choppers owner Art Evans and was on a 1993 episode of Tim Alllen's sitcom Home Improvement. The fastest at Bonneville is the black one above (not the monster truck one) which clocked at 96.529 in 2010

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

motorized bicycles from about 80-100 years old











all just a small part of the variety on a 3 page thread at http://motorbicycling.com/showthread.php?t=43650

you can see a better gallery of cool old motorcycles at http://www.motorcycle-usa.com/180/Motorcycle-Photo-Gallery/2003-Art-of-the-Motorcycle-Show.aspx

or just use Google and search "Art of the Motorcycle"

Weird O's California Monster Shirts

found on http://slownlow.tumblr.com/

think it's Ed Roth?

Nearly every variety of "wheel" ever invented on one website: unusuallocomotion.com










I've posted a couple in the past that these guys haven't posted... but I don't have time to search 6 years of archives to find them. They are probably in http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/rims if you want to look around

Above images from http://www.unusuallocomotion.com/pages/locomotion/the-wheel-reinvented.html
but you seriously are missing hundreds more if you don't look at the links on the left hand side of their site: http://www.unusuallocomotion.com/pages/locomotion/pneumatic-tracks.html
http://www.unusuallocomotion.com/pages/industrial/rolligons-and-terra-tires.html
etc etc

Pedal cars ready for sale... sweet!

great variety of styles! found on http://thekevinchen.wordpress.com

1977 show cars, goofy? Hell yes, but this one Barris built "Dick Tracy Kop Ter Rod" is Inspector Gadgetish

found on http://thekevinchen.wordpress.com/page/4 but originates from http://www.flickr.com/photos/cosmolutz/with/7463535614/#photo_7463535614 I think. Cosmo has a good gallery of the goofyness

Speed limit infographic

Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Bought to race, tuned to win, and kept in the family. The Wolfe family 12000 mile Motion Performance tuned GTO

Looks sorta odd with the white front bumper huh? That is just one unique detail, and the factory had to sell it that way, because the paint hadn't been figured out that would stay on the Endura bumpers.

Full story and gallery at http://www.highperformancepontiac.com/features/hppp_1111_1969_pontiac_gto/

Learned about it on the backpage of the Dec 2012 Muscle Car Review

Christmas story time... two 1960's 426 hemi in the factory crate

this is the only one I've ever seen...

But in Hawaii, on the island of Oahu, a member of the 1990s Mopar Club had one in the crate, and every christmas he dragged it into the liveing room from the closet, and set a small christmas tree on it. After the holiday, he pushed it back into the closet.

true story, I he told me about it. Great guy too, all of the Oahu Mopar club were really nice people.

Photo from Muscle Car Review, Dec 2012 issue

1968 GTX 440 factory detail photos in this months Muscle Car Review

From Frank Badalson, http://www.rogergibsonautorestoration.com/aboutus.htm  partner of Roger Gibson, (Mopar restoration expert) is a photo gallery of all the minutiae of the unique aspects in the Muscle Car Review magazine Dec 2012 issue

Some people wait a lifetime to find a great car, some find it when they are a teen, and wait a lifetime to won it. Mark was a fortunate rarity, he got both the car he desired 30ish years ago, and it's a barnfind 1969 GT 500 Shelby Mustang


photos from http://www.teamshelby.com/forums/index.php/topic/71189-barn-find-gt500/

Mark's neighbor was an attorney that owned 3 Shelby Stangs, acquiring each as payment on cases, and this was the one he drove the most and damaged in the early 80's, and then parked it in the warehouse over his office. Once it went into the freight elevators and into that warehouse it was off the radar... til the attorney finally mentioned selling it to the single person that could reunite it with the once teenage neighbor kid

The original 428 was blown early, and replaced with a 390, but the sale went through at 25 thousand to Mark, because he'd known the seller since the 80's and the seller knew it was going to a good home finally

Info from Muscle Car Review dec 2012 issue

Proof that Ebay sellers are lunatics and over-estimate the value of their garage sale finds


the only other Petty Sueprbird license plate you're going to see is http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2012/09/rare-license-plate-richard-petty-had.html but that doesn't mean anyone wants one bad enough to blow a paycheck or so for one that will then be a dust collector 

Monday, December 24, 2012

Sunday, December 23, 2012

Alloway's Hot Rod Shop 1967 Ford Fairlane with a Boss 429 at SEMA


















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