Friday, July 31, 2009

Honest Charlie powered

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Buddy Miles and his stars and stripes Harley trike

Buddy was the drummer that worked a lot with Jimi Hendrix from 1964 - 1969, and was the drummer for the "Band Of Gypsies" in 1969 and 1970 that Jimi had when he split with his management who were getting too controlling http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_MilesFor a full story on Buddy Miles, see the Selvedge Yard article: http://theselvedgeyard.wordpress.com/2010/03/25/buddy-miles-the-band-of-gypsys-funky-badass-mother-drummer/...

The Bushmaster of George Schreiber, painted by Jag Painter of Chicago

The murals took over a 1000 hours and were in the Zodiography form of art that Jag made up, based on the request of George to have a Peter Max style paintjob. This was George's 2nd top fueler, the first was Ed Roth's Yellow Fa...

Have a look through the Ed Roth book, "Hot Rods"

http://books.google.com/books?id=R_NLUumxWTMC&pg=PA80&lpg=PA80&dq=Schreibers+Bushmaster&source=bl&ots=7ePr3pqTGK&sig=yl5IJRu9BXc5RyjOfgwIvqbbyf8&hl=en&ei=Q6JzSuCwEIHCNouemLEM&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2#v=onepage&q=&f=fa...

Another photo of the Barris shop

Via: http://carrosantigos.wordpress.c...

Take a look at this advertising... it's damn good! Plenty more at justacargal.blogspot.com

take a look at the other 20 or so: http://justacargal.blogspot.c...

1973 Javelin AMX advertising

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Dodge; for the hard driving man... right advertising meassage, 10 years too late

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1974 Ford Pinto advertising, they sure went overboard on trying to convince the reader it was as wonderful as Henry's pioneering success, the Model T

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1974 Ford Mustang II Mach 1... what a waste of design and advertising

"the best news from Detroit in 9 1/2 years" really? What a gross overstatement. Obscenely ridiculous... what drugs were those advertisers doing on their lunchbre...

Muntz ad 1974

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Thursday, July 30, 2009

I found another Roth t-shirt ad... sweet!

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Chrisman Cannon Hustler exp 1961 Chrysler digger

For more dual engine and or dual rear tire dragsters see: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2006/12/dual-engine-diggers-and-dual-rear-tire.h...

Broom Hilda drag raced!

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Perfect timing... the photographer had perfect timing to catch the driver looking down at the damage, and throwing his hands up in disgust

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Wednesday, July 29, 2009

The best ad gets it's point across in the simplest convincing way, this is the best I've read in a long while

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Wow, what a photo op this was

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(Nearly) weekly dose of trains

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It's cool, and has wheels. That's all I need to appreciate stuff.

Zeltweg airshow 2009, Blériot XI (1908)Via: http://pixdaus.c...

Tucker photographed leaving a Vegas convention

Via: http://www.laubly.com/1948tucker....

Snake oil? (products that promise but don't deliver)

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Tuesday, July 28, 2009

1970 Plymouth Rapid Transit Brochure located in the 1969 Oct Hot Rod... love this Barracuda

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Did you know Ed Roth made a record or two? Rods and Ratfinks was the album

The song Ed sang was "Rods and Ratfinks"- under the name Mr. Gasser and The Weirdos They weren't really Gary Usher projects, but he did sing background vocals and the music was by Hal Blaine, Jerry Cole & Peter and Bob Klimes, produced by Jim Economides. There is a double CD that came out in 1995 on One Way Records that collects them...

You could have seen them, or rented them in 1964

I didn't photoshop this, I'm good but not that g...

Faulty valve causes minor cockpit fire in Tony Kanaan's racecar at the Indy race in Edmonton

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Monday, July 27, 2009

Great looking hot rods at the King of Clubs drag racing annual event at Barona 1/8th mile track

The only hauler that raced the 1/8th! If I remember correctly, it pulled a 13 second. Wish I'd caught that on film Not a real Auburn boattail speedster, a reproduction Buick Wildcat Don't see these everyday! Comet wagon... cool! Middle of the hood, green... never seen anything like it before Anybody know what it's for? For...
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