I just looked through the book on the art of William Stout, and there's a lot to learn in there. He worked with the best and most famous people you've ever heard of, Henson, Spielberg, Lucas, Disney

the first merch that Lucas had made, was commissioning Stout to do the art for Burger King glasses! 

Lucas also commissioned Stout to do the poster work for the re-release of American Graffiti 

I bet a lot of you love the mechanical nature of steam powered vehicles, and the exposed working con rods and machinery... I think you'll love this steam powered cycle with conrods by the back of the seat

 

wow, a real old fashioned flip book behind a hand cranked model car... I hope you click the link to see the video, and watch this in motion

 

https://www.facebook.com/reel/3570160469941450

I've posted more than enough about the Big Boy 4014 since they removed it from the Pomona Fairgrounds and restored it and took it out around the country on exhibition runs... I don't need to post anything else about it, not unless a really cool photo is taken of it, like this one

https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article294008769.html

this must be cgi, it is too nice to be a working gas station

https://www.tumblr.com/quarterturnthrottle

Panhard & Levassor X72 - 1933, look at that rooftop luggage thing, and the BEAUTY of a trunk that carries on the cars beltline

 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/344169429110858/?multi_permalinks=2605001009694344&notif_id=1729389285774639&notif_t=group_highlights&ref=notif

Volvo's entire product range in 1973.

 https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=8535163266538062&set=gm.1215867093051870&idorvanity=435603497744904

1911 Oakland before and after

 

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=122153101022361883&set=pcb.3351651401810835

I don't know why guys do this... it's not the 1st time I've seen 3 stacked blowers. I imagine only one has screws, the others are probably pass through

 

https://www.facebook.com/reel/505424279076157

huh, it turns out, Galpin and the Autopian.com share a media center production thing, and Galpin has just gotten started on making documentary videos about Porsche, starting with Magnus, then Matt Farah, then Bruce Meyer (when are they going to get Seinfeld?)

Galpin has a Porsche store called Porsche Santa Clarita, and it has one of the biggest Cars & Coffees in all of LA the first Sunday of every month, and the dealership has a Porsche museum called the “Wunderground” in its basement

https://www.theautopian.com/matt-farah-magnus-walker-and-more-featured-in-epic-new-porsche-themed-youtube-series-by-our-friends-at-galpin/

https://www.youtube.com/@galpinmotors/videos

https://www.instagram.com/porschesantaclarita/

if a person ever stops learning, it's likely because they stop being interested in things that are new - outside the day to day rat race grind. Today, I learned of the 8 units built of the Uren Stampede, essentially a British Ford Capri answer to the Shelby Mustang,

the Uren Stampede was developed by British Saloon Car Championship-winning race car driver Jeff Uren, with development assistance from British Formula 1 driver John Miles.

British racing driver Jeff Uren had deep ties with Ford, having won the 1959 British Saloon Car Championship driving a modified Ford Zephyr before becoming the Ford UK competition manager for a number of years in the early-to-mid-1960s.

Thanks to his contacts at Ford, Jeff was able to source not just any old Ford V8, but the high-performance Boss 302 V8.

He would call these cars the Uren Stampede and they wouldn’t be his first specials, they followed in the footsteps of the Uren Navajo, a high-performance Ford Escort, and the Uren Savage, a Ford Cortina powered by a Weslake-tuned Ford V6.

The performance was astonishing for the time, powered by a Boss 302, along with the close-ratio 4-speed Toploader transmission, with a 0-60 mph time the same as a Ferrari Daytona and quicker than a V12 E-Type Jaguar.

based on the Ford Capri but featured significant modifications, including Formula 1-spec Girling disc brakes, aluminum alloy wheels, and uprated suspension. The price was listed on the press release as being 1/4 that of buying a Miura, 1/5th that of a Daytona, and 1/3rd of that of a Pantera.

https://silodrome.com/uren-stampede-ford-capri/

a Pace CB-166 23 channel CB radio with a plug-in walkie-talkie and a Pace 10-4U police scanner that was owned by Burt Reynolds and signed by him, offered as a single lot by Julien’s as part of their upcoming auction in November.

https://bid.juliensauctions.com/lot-details/index/catalog/502/lot/237320/burt-reynolds-signed-smokey-and-the-bandit-scanner-and-cb-radio

https://silodrome.com/burt-reynolds-smokey-and-the-bandit-cb-radio/

this is pretty amazing... an art history major over at Autopian realized how the abstract painter Mark Rothko had painted a bunch of taillights.

 

https://www.theautopian.com/mark-rothko-painter-of-taillights-cold-start/

How stupid is that? just like his stupid paintings... useless snob bullshit colors erudite rich people can stare at and pretend to understand more in depth than each other

rumor is, that people get a spot at Hershey and other big car show/swap meets just for the camping and parking spot, then pretend to sell things (but not really). There's no evidence that this actually happens

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10235439495306552&set=gm.10169327869200548&idorvanity=17532215547

Quentin Tarantino, Samuel L. Jackson and Tim Roth-Autographed Hand-numbered Variant Edition 2014 Screen Print

https://propstoreauction.com/lot-details/index/catalog/399/lot/146425

schematics of the Mark VII tank, which appeared in the movie Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade, with handwritten notes

 Three photographs depicting the production's finished model of the tank accompany the schematics. 

https://propstoreauction.com/lot-details/index/catalog/399/lot/146132

holy shit, they tore pieces off the Fast and Furious cars to sell at auction

 

https://propstoreauction.com/lot-details/index/catalog/399/lot/145960

1900 Clément-Panhard 4/4½hp Dos-à-Dos Light Dog Cart

https://cars.bonhams.com/auction/29335/lot/211/1900-clement-panhard-4412hp-dos-a-dos-light-dog-cart-chassis-no-210-engine-no-210/

1910 Lorraine-Dietrich FJ/24 24hp Four-Cylinder Double-Phaeton coming to auction next month at Bonhams Golden Age of Motoring auction

https://cars.bonhams.com/auction/29335/lot/215/1910-lorraine-dietrich-fj24-24hp-four-cylinder-double-phaeton-chassis-no-16064-engine-no-40402/

I haven't posted the brass era stuff in a long time... but it's just as cool to me as the muscle car and hot rod stuff. This one looks like someone just made it

impressive lettering that was simple every day advertising on rail cars.

seriously complex used tools recycled art! Artist is Chris Howell, Double Eagle Welding

 https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=8480493435333809&set=gm.28044507945148811&idorvanity=107560572603590

https://www.facebook.com/groups/107560572603590/user/100001197117274

Sox and Martin, with the Car Craft Project Hemi 'Cuda the Chief Blue Meanie is incensed when he sees the hills and trees returning to their proper colors at the sound of their music; he sends his fiercest weapon

Very very odd art on the side of the Hemi 'Cuda, it's the "Dreadful Flying Glove" from the land of the Blue Meanies from the Beatles movie, The Yellow Submarine. 

the "Dreadful Flying Glove" is the fiercest weapon of the the Chief Blue Meanie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Meanies_(Yellow_Submarine)

It was an early build car with the VIN BS23R0B111678

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=122117075696528300&set=gm.1304994674109689&idorvanity=226675368608297