Saturday, May 25, 2013

a variety of unusual from GoAwayGarage.blogspot.com

The Isotta-Fraschini from the movie Sunset Boulevard


first given to Peggy Hopkins Joyce, a 1920s socialite, by her boyfriend Walter Chrysler




this last image is from the scene where Cecil B De Mille appears, and his charge for being in this film was 10,000 dollars and a new Cadillac. 

Honda is giving back to their car and SUV owners on Monday, a free tank of gas if you are north of San Diego but in Southern California. San Diego gets no love again!

Here are the cities :
 Van Nuys, Encino, Pasadena, North Hollywood, Whittier, Gardena, Lawndale,
 Torrance, Rancho Santa Margarita, Mission Viejo, Hemet, Temecula, Moreno Valley, Riverside, Thousand Oaks, Santa Clarita, Pacoima, Downey, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Westminster, Costa Mesa, Santa Ana, Ontario, Upland, Fontana and Victorville.

·        How many gallons per vehicle?
 However many it takes to fill up a tank.

·        Are there any limits to this deal? Any Honda? How about a Honda
towing or carrying a Honda... Will both the car or truck and the atv/orv or
motorcycle get  gassed up?

 Any Honda vehicle (not Acura for clarification) being driven (not towed or
 carried). And while we would not turn away a Honda motorcycle the event is
really meant for Honda drivers.



this is a facebook and twitter promotion, so if you are into those websites, and drive a Honda, and live in So Cal but not San Diego, you might be in luck. 

There will only be one team per location, and I wasn't informed how many teams per city, probably only one, as they are going to 27 cities. But NOT San Diego. I don't drive a Honda, but I think it sucks that this is the 7th largest city in America and is avoided by events and concerts.

SCHDA will be providing live updates on their Twitter handle the day of the event. @helpfulhonda: https://twitter.com/HelpfulHonda 

 get real time updates on where the Street Teams are giving away free gas, Facebook.com/SoCalHondaDealers
Twitter.com/HelpfulHonda

Motalko, a documentary on the old gas stations

 the video has used incredible technical means to move through the old photos in a 3 dimensional way

found on http://megadeluxe.com/videos/3d-scenes-from-the-documentary-motalko

the 1964 Mercury Comet durability run from Cape Horn to Fairbanks Alaska, 16,200 miles








images from googling, even Google books and Google newspapers

the 1966 Ford Magic Cruiser / Galaxie 500


from fastback to station wagon with rear facing seats in one move. Business commuter or family wagon? Good idea.


http://www.carstyling.ru/en/car/1966_ford_magic_cruiser/

60 big car makers and their logos

The Cadillac as art, by Robert Longo

that is simple, perfect, and well designed!
Found on http://www.theworldsbestever.com/category/cars/page/14/ you can buy one of 30 copies at http://dossierjournal.com/editions/robert_longo/ for $1500

the eighties were ridiculous






maybe it was too much action movies and red meat. Who knows?

all found in various posts on http://www.theworldsbestever.com/category/bicycles/

I think I can hear George Kennedy

Harkey Davidson made rocket engines for US Navy drones in 1964..

a BIG VW van at 2012 Burning Man

Bubba Smith in a late 70's Honda Civic, a clip from "Police Academy"

supermodels with transportation

as long as the engine runs, and the tires hold air, there is hope it can make it out under it's own power

Never fear little John Deere, Caterpillar will save the day ( Cat should really capitalize on videos like this... its free advertising)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctmNrKK87GA


Uploaded on Jun 28, 2010
We were trying to finish grade the slopes along a new highway when the 650H slid down the slope into the canal and the 750J tried to pull him out, an also fell in. Good thing we had the 345CL there to rip them both out.

the reinvented Camry... great commercial! (Lets applaud the DMV idea ! )

humor and cell phone case ingenuity



one town in Texas has busted Willie Nelson, Armie Hammer, Snoop Dogg, and Fiona Apple for having weed on their tour busses. Here is a detour mapped out to avoid it