Mercury Monterey, a long time ago, Mercury was serious about racing

from http://redonly.tumblr.com

Northrop YB-49 Flying Wing

Both found on http://redonly.tumblr.com/

if you want to learn a bit about flying wing design origin, it goes back to the mid 1930's: http://justacargal-s.blogspot.com/2011/02/burnelli-or-northrop-flying-wing.html

the above is labeled Northrup YB-49 Flying Wing, 1947
found on http://cetaceous.tumblr.com

trick photography

The photo is taken on top of a tunnel, with white cars going in and black cars coming out, no pollution jokes intended. The main idea I had before I took the shot was to capture contrast and motion, which is why I picked vehicles as a subject. I took well over 100 different photographs and I probably used 25 shots to create this one. I think the hardest part was to estimate the positions of the cars and the amount of white and black vehicles. I made it even harder for myself by accidentally moving the tripod ever so slightly during the session, which was quite annoying later in the post processing.
Canon G11, f/3,2, 1/400 sec, ISO 80
-Loui Nydelius
from http://gizmodo.com/#!5643192/30-impossible-scenes-that-actually-happened

Ever look at a wreck photo and wonder if the driver had just yelled "Hey Y'all, Watch this!" ?

found on http://redonly.tumblr.com/

George Lucas during the filming of the movie "American Graffiti"

For some more stills from the movie American Graffiti: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2006/11/great-movie-american-graffitti-cars.html#links

great stuff found on ihatemotorcycles.tumblr.com

check out the coolest futuristic designer ( he did the new Tron vehicles ) http://www.danielsimon.net/artdata/mopped/mopped.html

In the case that you don't click on the above for he full size version to read what it says, it is Acme fix it service

all this and more at http://ihatemotorcycles.tumblr.com

Cuban Classics, great photography of the last American cars in Cuba

see more at http://cubanclassics.blogspot.com/

South American GTX from Mechanical Fossils, to demonstrate how mopars outside the US were designed differently, but named the same

from http://fosilesmecanicos.blogspot.com/2010/05/mas-fotos-de-la-gtx.html

to see the American version: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/05/nice-gtx-comes-with-its-own-action.html

The Schlumpf Collection is on display in France at the National Museum in Mulhouse, the Cité de l’Automobile

The Schlumpf Collection may be the most prestigious car collection in the world. This is demonstrated by the two of the only 6 made Bugatti Royales, including the famous Coupé Napoléon, the 150 Bugatti, Hispano-Suiza, Ferrari, Rolls-Royce, Maserati, Maybach, Mercedes models, etc.

One of the Royales they acquired when they purchased the Shakespeare collection, in 1964, which was a total of 30 Bugattis and a gallery of those being loaded on a Illinois train is here: http://svammelsurium.blogg.se/2010/june/en-dag-i-illinois-1964.html

It was in a former Mulhouse woollen mill, with its typically 19th century architecture, that Fritz Schlumpf established his fabulous collection of 437 cars belonging to 97 different brands. With part of on display at the Cité de l’Automobile, it is certainly a must see if you get to France

www.collection-schlumpf.com/en/schlumpf/ learned about it from http://www.sportscardigest.com/schlumpf-collection-profile-and-photo-gallery

The collection was seized by the workers employed by the Schlumpf brothers, who had collected for years, and topped off their collection when Hispano Suiza needed to liquidate many of the Bugatti assets in 1963 after having purchased the Bugatti company. The Schlumpfs puchased Ettore Bugatti’s personal Bugatti Royale and many original spares and patterns—over the strong objections of the managing director and Roland Bugatti, Ettore Bugatti’s surviving son.

In 1971 the union of workers that had been restoring the cars, building restaurants, and a hotel that would have housed guests to the collection, went on strike, and years later the French government seized all of the Schlumpf assetts, including 437 vehicles. The strike was part of what forced the brothers to flee to Switzerland, echoing Bugatti's flight to Paris in the 1937 strike. Read all about it http://www.sportscardigest.com/schlumpf-collection-profile-and-photo-gallery

Here's another car I'd never heard of, the "Chinese Eye" 1965 Rolls Royce Silver Cloud

Read about it http://www.automobilesdeluxe.tv/1965-rolls-royce-silver-cloud-chinese-eye-drophead-coupe-and-its-for-sale/ but it doesn't say if this was a coachbuilt custom, or a factory design

Isetta with a custom side vent from a VW bus. Great idea

this belongs to Frank at http://mechanicallyderanged5.blogspot.com/ and is just a rolling chassis with dry rot setting into the tires, having been passed along from the previous owner as a project and it's ready to go to the next owner, still without an engine. I think Frank added he vents though.

I've just added a translator widget, adapted from the brilliant Dicasblogger.com.br translator widget

I adapted the code from Dicasblogger.bz to the following, but since they were are writing their blog in Brazil, they speak Portuguese, and never wrote a code for translating anything to Portuguese, nor did they use a flag of Brazil, so I need one of those also, I can't adapt any code to translate from English to Portuguese... can anyone write the code to do that?
Here is one source code to show an example of what it takes, But it's not complete or all that would be displayed would be the flag, and none of the code text. So, clicking on the flag will work for a translator... but to see and example of the source code behind I'm going to have to delete a little bit of it

!--– Add English to Italian –-- a
target="_blank" rel="nofollow"
onclick="window.open('http://www.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=en%7Cit&hl=en&ie=UTF8'); return false;"
title="Google-Translate-English to Italian" img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px solid; BORDER-LEFT: 0px solid; WIDTH: 32px; HEIGHT: 32px; BORDER-TOP: 0px solid; CURSOR: pointer; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px solid" title="Google-Translate-English to Italian" onclick="window.open('http://www.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=en%7Cit&hl=en&ie=UTF8'); return false;" alt="Google-Translate-English to Italian" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_mcq01yDJ2uY/Sdke2xCmrPI/AAAAAAAAAj0/Jv14yyDo1i4/Italy.png" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" /

I deleted all the <> >< stuff so you can read it.

What I did adapting the code from Portuguese to English as the origin language seems to have worked, if you find it didn't, I'm sorry. I can't do anymore with it, coding is beyond me.

Looks like Anthony Hopkins on the movie set for "World's Fastest Indian"

The license plate is close, but not the one on Burt's trailer http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/02/burts-trailer-simple-and-effective.html , and the tall guy is wearing new sneakers, nothing looked like those in the 60's, and Burt was skinny

found on http://ihatemotorcycles.tumblr.com/

Ever see a bad ass 62 Polara? Well, you have now

Found on http://thealwaysgentleman.tumblr.com

Portable garage, simple, weatherprrof, and burglar proof

from http://themiltonsource.tumblr.com

Bugatti Royale

Luckily the drivers all are standing next to the cars, it gives the behemoth proportion. I'd love to see one of these drive on a freeway to see how small the normal everyday Hondas and Nissans, Fords and Chevys look in comparison

For a thorough gallery and explanation of the various coachbuilt bodies http://svammelsurium.blogg.se/2009/may/det-mest-prestigefyllda-pa-hjul-genom-tiderna.html

AMC Rebel Machine

Found on http://themiltonsource.tumblr.com

Ed Roth's Tweedy Pie

Don't recall where I got the photos from

making do, hot rodder style with using what you have to do what needs to be done.

that is how to get it done, on the cheap, but just as well as on a rotisserie

barely holding on, but still a work truck getting the job done in Argentina

the passenger side tires are barely hanging in there, the front seems to be tied down to the rim with twine, and the rear recaps are parting from the tire carcass

found on http://fosilesmecanicos.blogspot.com/