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Showing posts with label unusual. Show all posts
Showing posts with label unusual. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
great photos on Hellformotors tumblr
You don't need me to tell you it's the Galpin Ford sponsored "Back Up Pick Up" unusual wheelstander, but you can't read that this is Lions in 1971
Briggs Cunningham at Le Mans 1950. Who is Briggs? race car driver and museum owner, and a sports car legend as he was one of the first in the 1950's to go all the way to try and win the European races as an American, like Reventon did after him, and Shelby after Reventon http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/03/le-monster-of-briggs-cunningham.html
From the movie "The Quest" http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/05/this-is-something-you-really-ought-to.html


http://hellformotors.tumblr.com for many more interesting and variety of wide range photos of race cars
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Monday, June 13, 2011
cool customs from oldfighters.com
Don't know what these are, but they look good. That blue car is the first I've seen of a seperate nose section that doesn't have body panels connecting it to the cab
http://oldfighters.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=6&st=80
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Monday, June 6, 2011
Fastest 2 wheeled steam powered vehicle? Probably
from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showpost.php?p=5860024&postcount=13533 is the tank of superheated water that when the valve is opened flashes to steam, and being locked down to the rail, propels the vehicle it was attached to into a crash test concrete block.Imagine the speed this could attain if it wasn't pushing a car into a wall
Monday, May 30, 2011
photos found at a car show
Sunday, May 29, 2011
The Crawford Auto and Aviation museum in Cleveland
The AMX prototype, why anyone thought a rumble seat was a selling point in a car that would normally be driven over 50 mph... I doubt that anyone would enjoy that for very long.
Franklin in front, (Stanley Steamer in the back ) they look odd because they were aircooled, and didn't need the normal radiator looking front end
A 1910 Hupmobile that went around the world to prove it's durability
Owen magnetic... only 4 are said to exist, one is in this Cleveland Ohio museum, one is in the Nethercutt near Burbank Ca.In 1900, there were over 1000 small auto manufacturers coexisting in the United States, over 70 of them in Cleveland.
The first auto sold in the US came from Cleveland's Winton Motors in 1897; the first car to make use of steel ball bearings was Cleveland's Baker Motors; and the first use of the French word "automobile" in conjunction with the US car industry was by Cleveland Plain Dealer reporter, Charles Shanks, in 1899.
The Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum was formed in 1963 with the private collection of Mr. Crawford's company Thompson Products at its core. (Thompson Products later diversified and became TRW, Inc.) The museum showcases 200 classic automobiles, among them 80 cars that originated in Cleveland. An online quick look is at http://cleveland.about.com/od/clevelandattractions/ss/crawford.htm
the above photos are from http://www.carlustblog.com/2011/04/crawford-auto-aviation-museum.html#more
three dozen reasons to know you'll like looking through Go Away Garage blogspot
Above a WW2 Crosley 3 wheeler
Gas in the spark plugs... wow, that was a long time ago
I think the above is the supercharged straight eight
not good to see your back wheel pass you by
Stutz Blackhawk at Ormand Beach
Steam powered lawn mowers.... your neighbors would freak out.

Great old vintage bike stand
They said it's photoshopped, but I don't care
Ner a car
They look like they are bolted to a bar under the bikes, probably a carnival ride


Above is a Willys or Graham I think
I like the van without the headlights, nice custom bodywork look
Private Hawaiian plantation tourist trainride
I'd never heard before that Oral Roberts (televangelist) had bought a Futurliner... huh
That helmet is terrific
I know I have forgotten what I used to know about the above dragster.
1906 Stanley Steamer set the land speed record for steam powered cars at Ormand Beach, and that 126 mph record still stands. Steam was obsolete so quickly after Stanley and Doble perfected its use in cars, that no one even tried o break their record
Way cool Triumph gas tanks stringed art. I doubt it plays, but it does look incredible



Vespa in the back of a Citreon 2cv... awesomesee these and a whole lot more at http://goawaygarage.blogspot.com/ but don't look while at work, there is a lot of hardwood floors and tatays
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