Sunday, August 07, 2011

1913 Pope Hartford

and more remarkable, that gentleman on the far side of the car, with the white motorist jacket... was one of the team that found and brought the Peerless down from the mountain http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/07/old-man-of-mountain.html 







 Have you ever seen as many of the early brass registration tags on one vehicle? I haven't! I've never seen more than one. The one on the far right indicates (and the owner told me) that this was used as a bus... tourist type, from Tonopah to Goldfield I think he said.. they are Nevada towns that were the hub of the goild rush between 1900 and 1902 http://www.rockhounds.com/rockgem/articles/tonopah_goldfield.html
 the above and one of the below are this same car, the one on the far left below is a Pope race car

A couple stand outs at todays annual National City Auto Heritage day at Kimball Park











For a full gallery of this 1929 Graham Paige Sound Train movie promoting vehicle from last years Speedfest: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/09/san-diego-1929-graham-paige-sound-train.html

Bob's restored 1937 Diamond T pickup truck model 80d, before and after photos show









This is only the 2nd Diamond T truck I've come across, the other wasa 1949 this spring at the T-Mec rod run: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/03/1949-diamond-t-pickup-cliff-was-able-to.html

sort of a hurdy gurdy... don't know what else to call a hand cranked piano on wheels

Never ever ever never ever never park here

gothic hearses


Found on kitten on the keys http://vintagemarlene.tumblr.com/ via Nik at http://21studs.tumblr.com/

Awesome finds by 21Studs (where does Nik find such great photos?!)

 I've never seen this Super Bee prototype before, never even heard of it!

Saturday, August 06, 2011

another wild variety of photos from Formicarius.tumblr.com, from Queens and Kaisers to carnival coaster cars and pirate women in Ostrich carts




1890's quadricycle with a Maxim machine gun mounted and beign tested for army contract consideration
Total car kid awesomeness! Want!

Proabably for a private little rail backyard fun... but the cutest damn thing I think I've seen all day
Pirate women ostrich racing... most bizarre thing we'll see all week?
Kaiser Wilhelm and blimps! Steampunk delux


incredible yes? http://formicarius.tumblr.com for hours of distraction from the mundane