Saturday, September 15, 2018

Stained glass semi's at the Richard Crane Memorial Truck Show in St Ignace









THE TRUCKS ARE FOR SALE IF SOMEONE WANTS TO BUY THEM,

EACH TRUCK HAS WON FIRST PLACE IN THE DELPHI ART GLASS SHOW THEY HAVE IN LANSING MICHIGAN,
WE HAVE TAKEN THE TRUCKS TO VARIOUS SHOWS,THE RED ONE "FIRELIGHT"
WAS AT THE WOODWARD DREAM CRUISE A FEW YEARS BACK AND PICTURES WERE TAKEN OF IT WITH GEORGE BARRIS AND LINDA VAUGHN.

 DAN WENT UP TO ST.IGNACE AND CAME ACROSS THE TRUCK SHOW, AT THAT TIME THEY ALSO HAD A PEDAL CAR CONTEST
DAN SAID HE WAS GOING TO BUILD A PEDAL CAR TO ENTER IN THE CONTEST, HIS WIFE SUGGESTED THAT HE BUILD A SEMI TRUCK PEDAL CAR, BUT IT HAD TO BE OUT OF STAINED GLASS, SO THAT IS HOW IT STARTED

IN ORDER TO QUALIFY AS A PEDAL CAR HE PUT CRYSTAL PEDALS ON THEM AND A SMALL CHILD REALLY COULD PEDAL THEM

NO TWO WILL EVER BE ALIKE AND THEY WEIGH IN STARTING AT ABOUT 250 POUNDS AND OUT LARGEST "INFINITY"WEIGHS 500 POUNDS.

THEY HAVE BEEN AT A FEW OF THE ST.IGNACE TRUCK SHOWS BUT THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME
THEY WERE DISPLAYED ON THE BACK OF A SEMI.


thanks to Darlene Czarnecki for the information!

update Oct 4th, Darlene sent me photos of a third: https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2018/10/darlene-is-super-nice-and-sent-me.html

shouldn't someone there have seen enough videos online to know what happens next?

Burning Man 2018

the friendly lion... was so welcomed in the tourbus, he took over, and the tourists stood outside. Now THAT is turnaround of the tourist to exhibit roles

I've previously not been aware of the Gala Ball at the Goodwood Aerodrome, this year, it was a steampunk theme

The dress code for Goodwood Revival is anything from the 1940s, 50s and 60s.

how amazing is Goodwood? Look at the account registry

That's the most I've ever seen when referring to a person's title. 

This 28 metre-high steel sculpture of the Jaguar E-Type car was designed by Gerry Judah for the 2011 Goodwood Festival of Speed





https://www.dezeen.com/2011/07/05/jaguar-e-type-sculpture-by-gerry-judah/

I don't know why this never came up when I did a gallery thoroughly covering all his scuptures https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-centerpiece-of-festival-of-speed.html   at Goodwood, but, better to find it late then never  

I just found an amazing gallery of Goodwood photos

but since it's Getty, it's great to look through, and impossible to share with you because of the licensing, watermarks, and so on

https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/goodwood?family=editorial&phrase=goodwood&sort=best#license

also

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/goodwood-festival-speed

Ray Hanna's Spitfire awarded top honors at the 20th Goodwood Revival


Fittingly at the 20th anniversary of the first Revival meeting, it was Spitfire MkIX MH424, the aircraft which Ray Hanna famously flew down Goodwood’s pit straight below the height of the grandstands, that was awarded top honours.

Generously displayed by Sarah Hanna, MH434 is now 76-years-old and has a prolific wartime record, as well an unbroken post-war history. It has been on display at every Revival and flies before an adoring crowd over the annual cricket match at Goodwood House on the Thursday before.

https://www.goodwood.com/media-centre/legendary-low-flying-spitfire-wins-freddie-march-concours/

Chopper Olli invents again!


It's been 10 years since I posted a gallery of the cool stuff he's created https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/12/ollie-rikkila-is-creative-genius-hes.html  so it's really cool to see that he never stopped!

I hadn't noticed that he made this

which I posted in January, as I was distraced by the history of Pon’s Automobielhandel

https://www.instagram.com/p/BlYCuBRlxbF/?taken-by=steampunktendencies
https://www.instagram.com/steampunktendencies/

Jimmy Dean, Steam Punk artist who did this on Alan Sands' model T

here's a first, someone emailed me to be a sponsor of them in a Italian historic car championship. It's 10 races in Italy from April to Oct next year.

Good afternoon,

I would like to know if you might be interested in sponsoring my team for the Italian historic car championship. It is composed by 10 races in the whole of Italy, it will start in April 2019 and it will finish in October 2019.

Participating just for passion but with the aim of achieving the best results, we are searching a sponsorship just to cover some costs of the competition so the fee requested is affordable.

If you are interested I will give you more details.

Best regards

I haven't heard a word back after I replied that I'm not just broke but in credit card debt, and could only offer him free publicity, and to get the word out on the blog so maybe someone willing to sponsor him might see it. 

my theory is, the lights and noise turn ordinary people into people that stop being able to think, and they make bad decisions. Like hooking a left instead of just staying behind the biker.


and the white car in the fast lane is oblivious to it all

Bantam Tow Truck & Tractor photos - 1942 Bennington Vermont Thanks Steve!

now we're talkin'! A Seagrave rat rod

It's good to know there is still some cool stuff out there

tracks that were put in on land given to the railroad companies, that don't exist anymore, and never had anyone tear put the rails. I wonder how many thousands of miles of these still exist?


I wonder, are these made by the car owners? Or a company that sells decals to accessorize the VW badge?

Back to the concepts of 100 year old wheels, but, it just might work out this time

tire guys know someone who really was this stupid