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Showing posts with label Gilmore. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gilmore. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 01, 2025
Saturday, March 01, 2025
the back of the 34 Mack that I've posted previously, the neon was designed and installed by the head of Special Effects at 20th Century Studios. (thanks Steve!)
Tuesday, March 07, 2023
Monday, January 16, 2023
a photo of the 1934 Mack Gilmore Neon sign fuel truck I haven't seen before
I posted a couple other photos of it at http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/07/gilmores-1934-traveling-neon-sign-fuel.html
Thursday, October 20, 2022
Friday, September 02, 2022
Jay Ward wrote an article on the history of the flame job, he missed a few things though
https://www.hagerty.com/media/automotive-history/flame-job-the-hottest-cars-were-an-entirely-american-invention/
And he didn't show the crabclaw flame lick, or Ed Roth's famous flames.
And he didn't mention "True Fire" the revolutionary style that changed the flamejob about 20 years ago of Mike Lavallee
or the use of Chromostereopsis for 3d flames, in 2d paint.
no mention of ghost flames, inverse flames, and reversed flames.
I really do wish experts would ask me about car guy stuff, I could fill them in on the things they don't know
because I already posted about it, a couple years ago http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2020/07/who-invented-flame-job-sondre-kvipt.html
If you haven't seen my previous post about Jay Ward, he's a creative director at Pixar, focused on the Cars franchise since 1998, and also runs the campus classic car show, the "Pixar Motorama"
Before Pixar, he was the editor of Hop Up magazine from 2007 to 2009. He started at Pixar as an entry-level assistant position in the art department around 1996 because a college classmate got a job there and let him in on the secret that it was going to be the next big thing, then worked his way up in quick time from production assistant to coordinator
Before that, he was managing the parts department at an Oakland Harley-Davidson dealership.
Before that, he worked at an auto parts store and then attended California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, now called California College of the Arts.
He joined the Navy Reserves out of high school
Lately he's been an honorary judge at Pebble Beach and the Quail
Wednesday, July 13, 2022
Sunday, July 03, 2022
In 1929, Hollywood stunt pilot Roscoe Turner deployed a whole-airplane parachute for kicks before 15,000 spectators in Santa Ana, California, and landed softly in his 2,800-pound Lockheed Air Express. But is his RT-14 Meteor, the only repeat Thompson Trophy winner, even cooler?
it was retired in 1939 after just 30 hours of flying time.
Born in Mississippi in 1895, Turner had been trained as a balloon pilot during World War I and went into barnstorming following the war.
Turner had a flair for such commercial tie-ins; when working with the Gilmore Oil Company in a promotional plane that had its lion’s head logo painted on it, the pilot obtained a lion cub he also named Gilmore who flew with him until the animal got too big and unmanageable.
Turner had a flair for such commercial tie-ins; when working with the Gilmore Oil Company in a promotional plane that had its lion’s head logo painted on it, the pilot obtained a lion cub he also named Gilmore who flew with him until the animal got too big and unmanageable.
“He had a parachute and a harness for the lion,” Kinney says. “Gilmore became a symbol for this golden-age idea of the outrageous things people would do in marketing.” When the big cat got too ornery for plane rides, Turner kept Gilmore as a pet in his Beverly Hills home until the lion died in 1952. Even then, it was hard to let go, Kinney says. “Turner had him stuffed and kept him in the family den for decades.”
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/how-things-work-whole-airplane-parachute-67493177/
https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2013/06/have-you-seen-gilmore-airplane.htmlhttps://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2018/10/jean-harlow-at-national-air-races-of.html
Thursday, June 30, 2022
Saturday, April 09, 2022
great old fuel tankers
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that old Shell logo is really cool, but the Standard RWB and torch was a logo I liked a lot as a kid.
W.H. Riley & Son has been delivering fuels to southeastern Massachusetts since 1873 since Ulysses S. Grant was in the White House
https://www.barrett-jackson.com/Events/Event/Details/1928-FORD-MODEL-AA-FUEL-TANKER-TRUCK-178029https://classiccars.com/listings/view/914610/1931-ford-model-aa-tanker-truck-for-sale-in-st-louis-missouri-63028
https://www.mecum.com/lots/SC0521-461885/1931-ford-model-aa-tanker-truck/
https://www.whriley.com/about/https://www.hemmings.com/stories/article/prewar-petrol-peddler-1930-ford-model-aa#&gid=1&pid=1Sunday, April 04, 2021
I'm sure you know of the Mobil Economy Run, but had you heard of Gilmore's Economy Runs? They had one from LA to Yosemite in 1939, and one from LA to the Grand Canyon in 1941, in the next post
The Econo-Master engine of the low-priced Oldsmobile Six lived up to its name in the Gilmore-Yosemite Economy contest of '39
AA observers credited the Oldsmobile with 21.39 miles per gallon in the grueling 315-mile run, the best average made by any car in its field.
Above, the winning Oldsmobile is shown following the winding mountain road 40 miles from its goal. Due to icy roads and adverse weather conditions, only 16 of the 29 contesting cars finished within the time limit.
https://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/item/51061
In 1939, the Gilmore Oil Company of California recognized the fun in fuel economy and held the first annual Gilmore Economy Run-- which was a half day event that ran from Gilmore Stadium in Los Angeles, CA to Yosemite. The rules were simple: You were weighed and you were put into a class based on size of your car and cubic inches of your engine. The person who got the best gas mileage won, and in 1939 they approached 30mpg.
I've never seen photos of the Gilmore Grand Canyon Economy Run before, it was 595-mile drive from Los Angeles to the Grand Canyon.
Hudson, Lincoln, Nash, and Mercury
Equipped only with standard transmission and drive gear ratio, the Mercury established a remarkable stock car economy figure of 23.35 miles per gallon which bettered the marks of 15 of the 22 other finishing cars, a majority of which carried overdrives. Mercury consumed no oil.
The Lincoln won, Marshall Martin was the driver
https://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/search/?q=Gilmore-Grand+Canyon
read all about the Gilmore years online in the Google Books:
The Mobilgas Economy Run: A History of the Long Distance Fuel Efficiency ...By Dave Hermanson
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