
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Abandoned stuff website



Von Dutch invented lace painting, Watson perfected it

From Rod and Custom Oct 96, page 125:
One night while laying in bed, Larry Watson's thoughts jumped back 10 years to a long "pow-wow" with the legendary Von Dutch. He had told Watson about the time he lifted up a doily laying on his workbench and the bitchin' design that was left, from the overspray in the shop. Dutch liked it so much he cleared over the imprint - and would tell everyone this was his favorite area of the workbench.
bet you didn't know that! Watson used the idea to try something new, it was on Doug Carrey's Grand Prix and won best paint in the '67 L.A. Sports Arena Custom Car Show.
One night while laying in bed, Larry Watson's thoughts jumped back 10 years to a long "pow-wow" with the legendary Von Dutch. He had told Watson about the time he lifted up a doily laying on his workbench and the bitchin' design that was left, from the overspray in the shop. Dutch liked it so much he cleared over the imprint - and would tell everyone this was his favorite area of the workbench.
bet you didn't know that! Watson used the idea to try something new, it was on Doug Carrey's Grand Prix and won best paint in the '67 L.A. Sports Arena Custom Car Show.
The rare supercharged Graham

Image copywritten by Dave Lindsey, http://socalcarculture.com/ view the full gallery at: http://public.fotki.com/wackydave/car_shows/car_shows_2006/the_brucker_collect/
Friday, January 22, 2010
Watson, Roth, Road Agent and the model photoshoot, I found another photo from that shoot


A Westergard customized 32 roadster was found and they tried to sell it on Ebay, reserve not met at $72k


Smokey's Chevelle is for sale! (You know, THAT one) (Where can a guy sell a kidney around here for some dough to buy a legendary car?)

via: http://autoculture.org/?p=790 This was the car that Smokey was supposed to have driven off from tech inspection when they were pissing him off, and left his fuel tank behind... on the hidden fuel supply

Now that is straight from the May 1968 Motor Trend article on Daytona 500, referring to the qualifying
Like photography of Bonneville racers? Here's something cool, helpful, and makes me feel better about car guys... Alex is helping a friend

Via Marc at http://lowtechblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/more-than-great-photography.html
A photo with a story,

Thursday, January 21, 2010
Coolest thing we'll see this week, off roading just got more awesome


Via the "mad about wheels" great finders at AutoMotto: http://www.automotto.org/entry/chainlink-4x4-is-frighteningly-awesome/
10 dollars, junk laying around, welding and time.

$600,000 worth of bad driving, aka, rich people hate their cars

See many more from a Russian site, use Google toolbar to automatically translate it for you, :http://www.autosite.com.ua/news_article_14597.html
2010 California traffic ticket fines, they don't make sense relatively, but indicate that the state looks at these fines as revenue, not as a deterent
If you are looking for 2011 fines: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/02/new-california-traffic-laws-and-fines.html
Traffic Tickets Fines (01/06/2010)
Failure to notify DMV of address change within 10 dayd..................................... $214
Failure to provide evidence of financial responsibility (insurance) ....................$796
Failure to stop at a red signal. ..................................$436
Failure to stop at a stop sign. ....................................$214
Unsafe Speed, 1 to 15 miles over the limit.................$214
Unsafe Speed, 16 to 25 miles over the limit...............$328
Passing a school bus with flashing red signals............$616
Drive using wireless phone not hands free, First offense ....................$148
Drive using wireless phone not hands free, For each subsequent offense. ...............$256
Drive while wireless device to send, read or write text.........................$148
Minor drive using wireless phone.....................................$148
Parking in a bus loading area ...................$976
Violation of disabled parking provisions, first offense................$976
Violation of disabled parking provisions, second offense...............................$1876
Unlawful material on vehicle windows...........................$178
Adequate muffler required ................................$178
Mandatory use of seat belts...............................$148
Mandatory use of child passenger restraints.....................$436
Headsets/Earplugs over both ears.....................$178
Motorcycle safety helmet requirements.......................................$178
No evidence of current registration...................................................$256
Traffic Tickets Fines (01/06/2010)
Failure to notify DMV of address change within 10 dayd..................................... $214
Failure to provide evidence of financial responsibility (insurance) ....................$796
Failure to stop at a red signal. ..................................$436
Failure to stop at a stop sign. ....................................$214
Unsafe Speed, 1 to 15 miles over the limit.................$214
Unsafe Speed, 16 to 25 miles over the limit...............$328
Passing a school bus with flashing red signals............$616
Drive using wireless phone not hands free, First offense ....................$148
Drive using wireless phone not hands free, For each subsequent offense. ...............$256
Drive while wireless device to send, read or write text.........................$148
Minor drive using wireless phone.....................................$148
Parking in a bus loading area ...................$976
Violation of disabled parking provisions, first offense................$976
Violation of disabled parking provisions, second offense...............................$1876
Unlawful material on vehicle windows...........................$178
Adequate muffler required ................................$178
Mandatory use of seat belts...............................$148
Mandatory use of child passenger restraints.....................$436
Headsets/Earplugs over both ears.....................$178
Motorcycle safety helmet requirements.......................................$178
No evidence of current registration...................................................$256
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
1968 Plymouth musclecars, I hadn't seen these ads before

Some Plymouth advertising you might also enjoy and probably haven't seen before http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/01/incidental-road-runner-advertising.html
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/07/plymouth-advetising-campaign-ive-never.html and http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/06/one-fun-advertisement-id-love-to-talk.html
And the wonderful brochures from Plymouth: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/06/1970-plymouth-barracuda-brochure-high.html and http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/07/id-never-seen-this-brochure-cover-like.html
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