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

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McDonalds in railroad cars... might be the only one in the world that isn't in a building, but in freightcars. Barstow Station

It is empty in these photos because I got there about closing time.

From their website, a McDonalds in Barstow (California on route 66, at the intersection of Interstates 40 and 15)  was the biggest in the world in the 1970's, and a guy bought it, plus bought the railroad cars, and put together 17 cars. He made the combined cars connected to use as a multi restaurant establishment, and now it has a Panda Express, McDonalds, Greyhound Bus line, a liquor store and a ice cream store. http://www.barstowstation.net/

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one 1970 Hemi Cuda was made with a Mod Top

images are from a gallery of 100 or so, at http://hallsbodyshop.net/images/Steven_Juliano/70_Cuda_ModTop_Hemi/one-of-one/index.html

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dad of the year goes to this kids inventive and thoughtful dad

this kid is stuck with a wheel chair.... but his dad isn't going to throw in the towel on Halloween, he raised the bar for all dad's, and specifically those with kids in difficult situatiuons, and made his kid really happy and likely the most adored kid in his town for a while.

Bravo man! My compliments and admiration!

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newest motor wheel, and they figured out how to pedal it

found on http://justacargal.blogspot.com/

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most unusual rim

Thanks to Case who took this photo at the annual Throttlers car club event in Burbank this past weekend

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A odd motorbike that Von Dutch built on a BMW frame, with a VW engine

Thanks Frank! I've never heard or seen this one before

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Wheelchair with lawn cutting blades... ummmm, what? What is the idea? To push yourself around the front yard and cut the grass?

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Nice Mustang, and great collection of stickers and decals... but I noticed the unique treatment of the license plate, first I've seen made to look like a 1960's

Putting the Holman Moody decal across the hood this way sure grabbed my attention, but then I glanced at the plate, and noticed the aging and color treatment that they've given it, as it is not a 1960' plate, it's just the right colors. The new plates are easy to spot, because they have 7 characters. All the yellow letter on black background plates for cars were 6 characters, the first 3 were letters, the 2nd 3 were numbers. Of course the commercial vehicles (includes El Camino and Ranchero) were different and easy to distinguish from the cars plates

 also the front and back have a different texture in this aging and coloring example

pretty cool to go to this trouble to make the plates seem to be the right ones for the decade. If this car really had the black and yellow plates for a car from 1965-66 they would probably be something like ppp111 through sss-999

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All aluminum '40 Willys that's been circling around the internet all year finally found my email inbox

I looked around the internet to see where these originally came from, and the earliest post of them seems to be mid February 2012 on http://wizardofbaum.blogspot.com/2012/02/walt-austins-aluminum-willys-coupe.html where there are more images. However, http://saltflatsspeedshop.com/40willys.html has a bigger gallery and a couple of the car at a car show and where the Salt Flats Speed Shop says they sold it to a guy in New York

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1966 Berlinetta Willys Interlagos, one of 4 in the USA according to the owner, out of only 822 made in Brazil

for more info http://www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/z16174/Willys-Interlagos.aspx but in brief, Willys Overland of Brazil licensed the Renault Alpine 108, and built them from 1962-1966

This cars owner left a comment, and thanks! telling us that this one is one of maybe 4, 2 are intact, one is derelict, and the 4th is rumoured to be a cabriolet in Long Beach. 

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Some projects start with a part, and take a natural path toward completion, but assembled into a vehicle that is unique, and not ever made into production. What could be a 1903 Overland

from contributor "Uncle Frank" :

It's a complete fake and no such vehicle ever existed.

 

It started when he gave me a Model T klaxon horn which I restored and eventually gave back to him for the project.

 

He had also assembled a stack of parts, bits and pieces of this and that, a pile of scrap metal curlicues, etc and a gorgeous brass bucket style headlight from 1903.

 

Shortly after that, he found a Turn of Last Century opposed twin irrigation pump and knew what he had to do...

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How many people who think they have seen a UFO flying saucer were looking at some US military prototype?

how crazy of a design is this? found on http://dieselpunk.livejournal.com/524428.html

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1923 Marmon Herrington (love their creations) the original road train, the Damascus to Bahgdad run

How this came to be is written up in an article http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/198104/the.nairn.way.htm in which the Nairn brothers found a need and filled it with a bus route between Damascus and Baghdad, cutting the route in 1/3rd the previous standard time.

90 percent of the travelers used Nairn... it was a dangerous time, natives were hostile, water was no where around, and few vehicles could make it. Nairn charged the equivalent of $50.

The Nairn brothers stayed in the Syrian area after World War 1, and realized that the overland route had been unused since Vasco De Gama figured the way around the southern tip of Africa. So the brothers took a plow and made a trail between the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf. The plow didn't create the trail... the plow was in case they got lost, they could then follow the furrow back to civilization

found on http://dieselpunk.livejournal.com/521142.html 

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