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.

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1571352008325494&set=a.530718349055537

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

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

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10237992389101836&set=gm.10162709497357481&idorvanity=119087132480

old engine art

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10241943029261688&set=gm.2859769701036489&idorvanity=639840753029406

very cool

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=890994217299246&set=a.242569442141730

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

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1296920108964024

cool home made tool box

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/981124931271250

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.

https://www.hagerty.com/media/automobilia/the-art-of-racing-helmets-lifts-the-visor-on-racings-fastest-art-form

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

https://www.magnetomagazine.com/product/the-art-of-racing-helmets

https://www.octane-magazine.com/product/the-art-of-racing-helmets/

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

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

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10243297645315755&set=gm.10162688571402481&idorvanity=119087132480

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

https://www.facebook.com/groups/119087132480/permalink/10162705261327481

fundamentally true

 

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10239362925744768&set=gm.1988920705085019&idorvanity=375924299718009

1952 Alvis Healey 3-litre G type convertible.

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1336040601885376&set=a.1225557776266993

I just learned they rebooted Speed Buggy

https://www.facebook.com/groups/375253514651872/

this is so typically odd... an artist who is so talented, unable to pay the bills with art, has to have a regular job to pay the bills.... David Wright, famous pin up artist, was a driving instructor!

one of the most popular pin-up artists during World War II. 

During the war he worked as a driving instructor for the armed forces in Abersoch, Wales, which left him plenty of time to continue his illustration work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wright_(artist)

the old Ford dealership in Black River Falls Wisconsin was built in 1916, and had the first gas pump for the city in front of building. The original car freight elevator took the cars stored in the basement up to ground level

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10230660814088329&set=pcb.1912565319444305

1975 Motor Wheel Corp Hot Flash wheels

I don't like them, but that's not why I'm posting them. I post them to remind us what ugly stuff looked like in the mid 70s

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10238394013688271&set=pcb.4626862084257700

this is the fastest accelerating vehicle. The only thing quicker, is a primo top fueler. It holds the world record for a 2 wheeler in the 1/8th, at 1.96-seconds

https://www.motorcyclenews.com/news/2026/april/steam-powered-drag-bike/

there is a custom 3 Airstream fishing camp near Redding. It's for sale, along with 650 acres, for about 19 million

https://robbreport.com/shelter/celebrity-homes/meg-whitman-spring-creek-ranch-northern-california-1237801497/

 https://hallhall.com/property-for-sale/california/spring-creek-ranch/a09Nu000009aWc5/?gallery=false

what's the point of an armored gun, or tank, when it has to have this much stuff on it to prevent it from being a target of drones?

 

By the way, in February, the Ukrainians liberated more territory in the theater than the Russians seized

https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-is-slowing-russia-down-and-making-gains-warfare-experts-2026-4

An Orange County man has been reunited with the 69 Camaro he inherited from his dad, that was stolen from a body shop back in 2009. His dad bought it the day he got back from Nam, and gave it to his son on his 16th birthday

the car was found in the backyard of a Whittier home, picked apart and non-operational, missing some tires, bumpers, lights, the passenger's side door, and all of its windows, by Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department investigators.

 "I haven't seen this car in 17 years." said Victor, who said that he had given up all hope of ever seeing his car again

He's also started an Instagram account, @vics69camaro, to detail the rebuilding process, and started a GoFundMe

https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/orange-county-stolen-1969-camaro-located-vietnam-veteran/