spotted on the freeways to LA

prayer to the car gods, and one of the best car race sequences to get an audience excited, from "The Fast and The Furious"

Dear heavenly spitirt, thank you for providing us with the direct port nitrous injection, four core intercoolers, ball bearing turbos, and titanium valve springs. Amen

Y Walk mini-scooter

autophobia

the instruction card that should come with rope pull engines on old lawn mowers, snow mobiles, etc

the local 525 revised the mudflap girl

well done!

what redneck hillbilly shadetree mechanic left a metric wrench on the alternator?

Oh yeah, like Retro Hound Robert pointed out, what the hell is a metric wrench doing on a Mopar? I noticed that too, but forgot in the months since I took this photo

in the same car, this well squared mexican blanket. Though perfectly placed, these don't belong in muscle cars! Rat rods and hot rods, yes. Not MOPARS! 

Cool things found in the blog "Progress is fine, but it's gone on for too long"

 Beer run! Filling up belly tanks with beer for the guys that just stormed the beach at Normandy

 probably looks like any old tank at first, but then, did you see that there are 4 tracks? Not the usual two

 Peter Sellers

 yup, it's a real Bugatti, factory racer

 amphib plane, stored in a hanger because getting it flying would take 2 fortunes and a winning mega millions lotto ticket

the 1936 Henderson before the restoration http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/07/1936-henderson-at-rhinebeck-grand.html

 a new image of the Count de Sakhnoffsky designed been truck, and this is a info card that was handed out at the trucks display... front above, and the reverse side below . For the gallery: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/09/extraordinary-designer-of-automotive.html

 terrific album cover art

 the cat tracks added onto the tractor give it so much more traction

a wheel pattern only used on Canadian trains, it looked familiar to me, and I remembered the train at the Nethercutt museum http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/05/private-pullman-palace-railcar-century.html

For the write ups of these photos, and so much more, including tools, munitions factories, Canadian museums, great things that were made in US and Canada, and extremely researched written descriptions of inventors and inventions: http://progress-is-fine.blogspot.ca/

Did the Persian Gulf area watch too many re-runs of the Dukes of Hazzard? What's with all the two wheeling cars?

How can a religious regime like Islam have a jihad against all us fun loving Americans, but revel in acting like hillbillies?

Ummm, as long as I'm offending all Islamic fundamentalist wackos, why is the only infidel country or people they are so offended by, which I heard was anyone not a muslim, why are only people of European ethnicities so offensive?

 I never heard the nut job muslim fundamentalists rant and rave about the Chinese... or the negro Africans (as opposed to the German and British decendant Africans, the causcasians) ... or the Russians?

 Is it because the Chinese won't put up with nonsense and outnumber the total Islamic religion like 4 to 1, China has Nukes, China will invade and kill without warning (ask Taiwan).

 Is it because the Africans will get rabid crazy and let the warlords off the leash? The Somali, Ivory Coast, etc etc ain't afraid of Jack, and spray bullets on a daily basis. Ever seen Blackhawk Down? The US has stayed the hell out of there ever since.

And Russia... took on Afghanistan, and is busting the balls of Chechnya... and has nukes. So why the animosity of the Euro decendant caucasians? 'Cause we're addicted to oil?

Commentor "King of Heartz" felt offended and commented as a ridiculous person would, unintelligibly, and without addressing the national issue I raised. About what I figured.

He wrote the following:
seriously come on what do u know about Islam and jihad u call ur self fun loving Americans who have killed millions in wars to establish democracy(demoncracy)while there are better things than democracy then Iraq what did u find there https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHt6ah-sJoY. anything u found was nothing close to weapons of mass destruction u claimed fun loving haan u I don't want to even swear at u because americans are pathetic powerless idiots mindless too and then u say "why o why do these people hate us"hating u is the least they can do and if they start doing all that what the US has inflicted on the US u will know I am a Pakistani and I live in Qatar i was born here mark my words u will see before the end of 2012 what it means to be an American in the true sense.all those things u brag about like freedom of speech freedom of choice are just illusions,so stop squealing and go watch a movie and don't even write something u don't know about go learn history



Well, I didn't kill, wasn't in a war, I know Islam just got represented by this douchebag,  I never for a second believed or claimed WMDs existed in Iraq, that was the politicians... not car guys. I figure it was so rich people in the war businesses and oil businesses could get richer... and that happened. How this moron can be Pakistai, but claim to be born in Qatar is a contradiction too. Also, I saw what it meant to be an American 5 minutes ago... what makes anyone think that life around me doesn't factually represent American life is something they don't understand... I did learn history, lots of it... did you think all this old car  stuff was the future? No, it's fundamentally HISTORY.

This and that from tumblrs I stopped by once, and can't recall who they were to credit

Some cool things I found at Sping Fling 2012

 Tubs and huge Mickey Thompsons. Awesome

 the above is a 66 or 67 Charger speedometer, the design is unsual among speedometers, and looks so cool when lit up in the dark