Saturday, October 19, 2024

I don't know why guys do this... it's not the 1st time I've seen 3 stacked blowers. I imagine only one has screws, the others are probably pass through

 

huh, it turns out, Galpin and the Autopian.com share a media center production thing, and Galpin has just gotten started on making documentary videos about Porsche, starting with Magnus, then Matt Farah, then Bruce Meyer (when are they going to get Seinfeld?)


Galpin has a Porsche store called Porsche Santa Clarita, and it has one of the biggest Cars & Coffees in all of LA the first Sunday of every month, and the dealership has a Porsche museum called the “Wunderground” in its basement




if a person ever stops learning, it's likely because they stop being interested in things that are new - outside the day to day rat race grind. Today, I learned of the 8 units built of the Uren Stampede, essentially a British Ford Capri answer to the Shelby Mustang,



the Uren Stampede was developed by British Saloon Car Championship-winning race car driver Jeff Uren, with development assistance from British Formula 1 driver John Miles.

British racing driver Jeff Uren had deep ties with Ford, having won the 1959 British Saloon Car Championship driving a modified Ford Zephyr before becoming the Ford UK competition manager for a number of years in the early-to-mid-1960s.

Thanks to his contacts at Ford, Jeff was able to source not just any old Ford V8, but the high-performance Boss 302 V8.


He would call these cars the Uren Stampede and they wouldn’t be his first specials, they followed in the footsteps of the Uren Navajo, a high-performance Ford Escort, and the Uren Savage, a Ford Cortina powered by a Weslake-tuned Ford V6.

The performance was astonishing for the time, powered by a Boss 302, along with the close-ratio 4-speed Toploader transmission, with a 0-60 mph time the same as a Ferrari Daytona and quicker than a V12 E-Type Jaguar.

based on the Ford Capri but featured significant modifications, including Formula 1-spec Girling disc brakes, aluminum alloy wheels, and uprated suspension. The price was listed on the press release as being 1/4 that of buying a Miura, 1/5th that of a Daytona, and 1/3rd of that of a Pantera.

a Pace CB-166 23 channel CB radio with a plug-in walkie-talkie and a Pace 10-4U police scanner that was owned by Burt Reynolds and signed by him, offered as a single lot by Julien’s as part of their upcoming auction in November.


https://bid.juliensauctions.com/lot-details/index/catalog/502/lot/237320/burt-reynolds-signed-smokey-and-the-bandit-scanner-and-cb-radio

this is pretty amazing... an art history major over at Autopian realized how the abstract painter Mark Rothko had painted a bunch of taillights.

 



How stupid is that? just like his stupid paintings... useless snob bullshit colors erudite rich people can stare at and pretend to understand more in depth than each other

rumor is, that people get a spot at Hershey and other big car show/swap meets just for the camping and parking spot, then pretend to sell things (but not really). There's no evidence that this actually happens


Quentin Tarantino, Samuel L. Jackson and Tim Roth-Autographed Hand-numbered Variant Edition 2014 Screen Print


schematics of the Mark VII tank, which appeared in the movie Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade, with handwritten notes

 Three photographs depicting the production's finished model of the tank accompany the schematics. 

https://propstoreauction.com/lot-details/index/catalog/399/lot/146132

holy shit, they tore pieces off the Fast and Furious cars to sell at auction

 

https://propstoreauction.com/lot-details/index/catalog/399/lot/145960

1900 Clément-Panhard 4/4½hp Dos-à-Dos Light Dog Cart








https://cars.bonhams.com/auction/29335/lot/211/1900-clement-panhard-4412hp-dos-a-dos-light-dog-cart-chassis-no-210-engine-no-210/

1910 Lorraine-Dietrich FJ/24 24hp Four-Cylinder Double-Phaeton coming to auction next month at Bonhams Golden Age of Motoring auction









I haven't posted the brass era stuff in a long time... but it's just as cool to me as the muscle car and hot rod stuff. This one looks like someone just made it

impressive lettering that was simple every day advertising on rail cars.



seriously complex used tools recycled art! Artist is Chris Howell, Double Eagle Welding

 https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=8480493435333809&set=gm.28044507945148811&idorvanity=107560572603590




Sox and Martin, with the Car Craft Project Hemi 'Cuda the Chief Blue Meanie is incensed when he sees the hills and trees returning to their proper colors at the sound of their music; he sends his fiercest weapon


Very very odd art on the side of the Hemi 'Cuda, it's the "Dreadful Flying Glove" from the land of the Blue Meanies from the Beatles movie, The Yellow Submarine. 

the "Dreadful Flying Glove" is the fiercest weapon of the the Chief Blue Meanie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Meanies_(Yellow_Submarine)



It was an early build car with the VIN BS23R0B111678



very 60s

 

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10162624675154363&set=gm.1305064184102738&idorvanity=226675368608297

nice behind the scenes photo from the wrap up after the show ended

 https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10226436981819307&set=a.4280688543895

Friday, October 18, 2024

just spotted in time to appreciate it's Halloween applicability!

 

HA!

 

someone is close to getting their 63 Vette finished at the body shop!


 

it really upsets me to see entitled assholes park in the handicapped parking spots, without a rear view mirror hanging temp placard, or a "disabled" license plate. It's gets me angrier when it's a sports car, obviously there for the lazy driver to get the short walking distance

 

ever wonder how people can be so ignorant of the condition, and obvious safety issues with their vehicle? I see at least one flat tire a week on the interstates while commuting, for example, and this moron

 I saw this hood existing only because of the safety latch... how long it can keep that hood from flying up I don't know, and didn't wait behind this car to find out

spotted in the grocery store parking lot... and I bet all of you thought that murals on vans ended in the 70s! lol


Hurst (not Oldsmobile) provided the pace car for the `72 Indy 500, and outfitted some Vista Cruisers with the same equipment as the pace car(s). The wagons were used for doctor cars and press cars.




Hurst supplied the speedway with at least a couple of Hurst/Olds Vista Cruiser station wagons labeled “Medical “ as well as “Press and Photographer”.

https://www.stationwagon.com/gallery/1972_Hurst_Olds_Vista_Cruiser.html

Andersen Pender is a 14 year old car owner, and his first car is a very real, 1 of 3 1969 Hurst/Olds convertibles.


He'll be bringing it to this years MCACN

1968 Pontiac Tempest Safari wagon.


Galpin Car Show is FREE and will take place from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, October 20th at all of the Galpin dealerships along Roscoe Boulevard... and the Roach Coach will be there... I've never seen that car in person


https://ktla.com/news/local-news/the-wildest-car-show-on-earth-2024/