the touring Memphis Belle (not the original that is getting restored) is in San Diego/Santee for rides (450 apiece) or tours after the days rides this weekend

 

Hot Rod Magazine did a full feature of the Mach 40, the Fuller "Thundertaker", and Ray Everham's Nascar Fury in this months issue

for my gallery of this car at SEMA; http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2012/11/most-of-cars-at-sema-are-impressive.html

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2012/11/ray-evernham-made-64-plymouth-belvedere.html for my gallery of the Fury

So check out the new issue on the magazine rack! Or even better, the website! http://www.hotrod.com/featuredvehicles/hrdp_1304_thoroughbred_1964_plymouth_belvedere/

This is one of the best issues in a while if you dig cool cars. 

There are only 10 registered Maserati MC12s legal for use in the US, and one is for sale with only 1128 miles!

and you can buy it at Symbolic Motors of LaJolla! 

Bill Noon bnoon@symbolicmotors.com

http://symbolicphotos.weebly.com

Fabulous Phyllis needs a bit of help with a Lokwel / Fatman steering wheel

I have a Lokwel that my mechanic doesn't know how to get into nor my "T" club buddies. Do you know where the nut or screw would be found?

If anyone can help, emailPhyllis ; and Ernie Foster

New images of Count De Sakhnoffsky designs, the La Batts delivery truck, and elegant cars

all images from http://www.coachbuilt.com/des/d/desakhnoffsky/desakhnoffsky.htm

Thanks to Brian for letting me know about the website

Max Grundy does not stop making cool prints and Tshirts... Cadillac Cover Up and Red Dawn

http://www.maxgrundy.com/

If you wanted to see the most similar races to the 1907 and 1908 gran prix of England, Germany, and France, you might look at the 1968 movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

after the racing beginning, then the movie gets into the affect of racing... one car, the winner of the 1907 and 1908 Gran Prix racing series, was in a wreck, and burned. It ends up in a mechanics yard, and the neighborhood kids play on it, cajole their eccentric inventor father (Dick Van Dyke) into getting them the car, he fixes it up, and then every 2 minutes is another musical or song and dance number. 

Here he is bringing the old race car home

working on it in the garage

and presto-chango, one perfect boat tailed skiff

the love interest, she drives her own cool old brass era car

until they fall in love and go for drives in the country (Below)

and then the plot of the 2nd half (after intermission) is that they go rescue grandpa from a castle

 I can not make out the brass script on the radiator, St Louis maybe?

 and they make this cool car fall apart.

Of course, you can see the support beams coming out of the floor. 

Written by Ian Fleming, screenplay adaptation by Rould Dahl, and made 4 years after Mary Poppins, it looks  like a copy of Mary Poppins and even has Dick Van Dyke. So if you loved Mary, you'll like this one.