Saturday, April 18, 2026

Walt Disney seems to have preferred this tiller steered cool old runabout



Here with his wife Lillian, and in the back seat is Fred McMurray

https://www.tumblr.com/walt-at-disneyland/173195747218/celebrating-today-walts-mother-flora-call

Walt Disney cruising around the studio backlot on a miniature horse-drawn stagecoach.


The vehicle was part of the Disneyland Stage Lines which operated at Disneyland from 1955-1959. 

Original photo taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt - Burbank, California - December 1954.


1952 Willys-Overland M38A1 has a odd notch on the top of the rear 1/4 panel (thank you M Currie! )


a couple months ago I posted one I found on a walk,  https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2026/02/its-rained-lot-lately-and-this-jeep-has.html#comment-form
and M Currie posted a comment:

When I was a kid, we had a CJ5, and I always wondered what that was for. Then I went to some Boy Scout function at a local armory, and they had one there. It was for the mounting of a model-specific anti-aircraft gun.

1910 Shaney's Auto Apthorp



old engine art


very cool

original owner slant 6 1969 Barracuda, 14k on Facebook marjketplace



cool home made tool box


Nova SS, thank Mike! 1:18 into the Mt St Helens Disaster documentary

 https://youtu.be/ZS0JVTlYgCY

good video, annoying narrator, terrific variety of museum pieces at a Japanese Concours

get the day off to a good start, pony car racing in Australia

the above corner is 5:45 into the video





this kid grew up, to write a book about racing helmets and run a car auction company


His 660 page two-volume set called The Art of Racing: Helmets is about helmets worn by famous and less-famous race car drivers, some of which are rather plain, and some are artistic masterpieces.

The Art of Racing: Helmets is co-authored—or co-curated, according to the book’s cover—by Ronald Stern, a noted helmet collector



a driver’s helmet may well be more recognizable than their likeness. 

Watch a race for minutes or hours and you may see the driver’s face for only moments, and that’s only if they do very well. The rest of the time, you’re looking at the racer’s helmet.


“It was a three-and-a-half-year project,” Twyman said. Though these are helmets—properly worn helmets, Twyman stressed, not copies, not promotional versions—from significant winners of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the Indianapolis 500, the Mille Miglia, and the Targa Florio, the subject is overwhelmingly Formula 1. “My aspiration was to get an example from every single world champion, which initially seemed like a big task, but we achieved that. And then I wondered how far we could go beyond that. What about grand prix winners?”

The plan was for a single book, “but it became quite apparent we needed two volumes, so we created a split,” ending the first book around 1979, with the second volume covering this modern era, through 2024
.



Many of the helmets came from institutions such as the Swiss Museum of Transport, as well as private collections of motorsports enthusiasts such at McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown.


There are 300 “standard, slip-cased” sets for about $600, plus shipping, and there are 50 leather-bound editions that are numbered and signed for about 2k

Ford stopped selling Shelby Mustangs, and maybe it was because it cost 800 per car for the name, and nothing else, from Shelby

 https://fordauthority.com/2026/04/mustang-shelby-heres-how-much-ford-paid-to-use-the-shelby-name

thank you Marc! This kids car resembles a Packard, and was factory electric, instead of the basic pedal power




So WHY hasn't anyone replaced the instrument panel in 100 years? This is garbage 


But this is cool, a kids Fatman Tilt lok steering wheel! 




https://bringatrailer.com/listing/other-unknown-79

Friday, April 17, 2026

bought at a yard sale for $5 years ago by some lucky guy

https://www.facebook.com/groups/9261317727/permalink/10164536674227728

I hope you all find at least one fun thing to do this weekend

 https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/

Steam car built by Czech-Polish engineer Josef Božek - 1816


The Denver Press Club gave a trophy to the driver of a Warren Detroit that beat Barney Oldfield in a race. Now the current owner of that trophy wants to give it to an owner of a Warren Detroit


fundamentally true

 

1952 Alvis Healey 3-litre G type convertible.