http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071208/ap_on_fe_st/odd33_cent_gas
MINOCQUA, Wis. - Dozens of drivers made a mad rush for cheap gas after a station employee accidentally changed the price to 33 cents a gallon.
An employee closing Trig's Minocqua Shell for the night mistakenly entered the price of a gallon of gasoline as 32.9 cents instead of $3.299 on Monday night.
He left about 10 p.m., but drivers could still use their credit cards to buy gas.
Word of the bargain spread fast in the rural northern Wisconsin community, with 42 people buying 586 gallons of gas in an hour and 45 minutes. One person had pumped 27 gallons and two purchased 18 gallons.
Saturday, December 08, 2007
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
Way back when... in the primitive beginnings of bikes and cars
1913 Cole Touring 
Just check out the primitive front fenders, just after having been invented, when they still performed the function of "Fending" off the horse slop from being flung onto the vehicle users.
1906 Grand Prix
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
The New York Times digs into the Unique Performance company losing the Foose and Shelby contracts
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/25/automobiles/collectibles/25SHELBY.html?_r=1&ref=collectibles&oref=slogin
In a new twist to the lawsuits and allegations of screwing over customers due to not delivering on time and on cost, it's the local cops and Texas state officials who seized 61 cars in an investigation into title washing (salvage titles being cleared by retitling in a different state - which makes the salvage title stigma disappear)
In another story from a local CBS station, a lot of the workers stayed on to finish some of the Foose Stallions after the shop was raided by police. Just dedicated to the cars, how cool is that?
http://www.autoblog.com/2007/12/22/slighted-unique-performance-workers-demand-wages/
We have word that Unique Performance utilized hard-core Texas prison inmates to help build the cars, and each of the hand-built Mustangs contained over 13 gallons of Bondo body filler. VIN numbers were illegally removed, and some parts of this re-built American classic were coming from Taiwan. per : http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/25/unique-performance-used-prison-inmates-and-bondo-to-build-must/
In a new twist to the lawsuits and allegations of screwing over customers due to not delivering on time and on cost, it's the local cops and Texas state officials who seized 61 cars in an investigation into title washing (salvage titles being cleared by retitling in a different state - which makes the salvage title stigma disappear)
In another story from a local CBS station, a lot of the workers stayed on to finish some of the Foose Stallions after the shop was raided by police. Just dedicated to the cars, how cool is that?
http://www.autoblog.com/2007/12/22/slighted-unique-performance-workers-demand-wages/
We have word that Unique Performance utilized hard-core Texas prison inmates to help build the cars, and each of the hand-built Mustangs contained over 13 gallons of Bondo body filler. VIN numbers were illegally removed, and some parts of this re-built American classic were coming from Taiwan. per : http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/25/unique-performance-used-prison-inmates-and-bondo-to-build-must/
The Smokey Yunick Camaro is for sale again
or call them at 480 894 4004
Oh yeah, and they want $260,000.... before taxes and interest on the loan
Why do I post about Smokey's Camaro? I'm an admirer of Smokey's accomplishments and brillaince.
Monday, December 03, 2007
Robert Williams, lowbrow artist extraordinaire
His website and gallery of art, including the Hot Rod Race, Appetite for Destruction, Girl with the Faberge Ass, and about a dozen others.. in flash.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Williams_(artist) known to most as the artist who did the liner art poster for Guns and Roses Appetite for destruction, and known to some for the masterpiece "Hot Rod Race".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Williams_(artist) known to most as the artist who did the liner art poster for Guns and Roses Appetite for destruction, and known to some for the masterpiece "Hot Rod Race".
Robert worked as Ed Roth's art director, and in 1994 got a magazine going, maybe you've heard of Juxtapoz magazine? I doubt it, but who knows? http://beinart.org/artists/robert-williams/
My kind of trophy
From this months Goodguys publication for members, here's their website for perusing for awesome hot rods :
All in the name of speed
Rollie Free, who on Sept 13th 1948 broke the 150 mph motorcycle speed record at the Bonneville Salt Flats on a modified Vincent Black Shadow. He stripped down to bathing trunks and lay flat on the bike to decrease wind resistance.
Via http://www.babysitterofthedamned.com/2005_05_01_babysitterofthedamned_archive.html