Saturday, January 31, 2009

This looks good, anyone tried it?

http://www.blaupunkt.com/us/ leads you to http://www.velocity2go.com/ which gives you the tour.

It's a boombox with subwoofer that you can plug your mp3 into, and use it in your home, car, or outside.

Play http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=momma+said+knock+you+out+ll+cool+j&hl=en&emb=0&aq=1&oq=Momma+said+knock+# and think of the upside of a portable subwoofer boombox.... hmm

Fail

Via: http://ekhatch.wordpress.com/

Cool photography from Ekhatch


This is how good F1 drivers have to be, able to sense the edge of the road to an inch, while over 190 mph... whoof



Via: http://ekhatch.wordpress.com/2009/01/page/4/

Terracuda by Foose

The story goes that one of his customers brought in a Breitling watch and asked Chip to make his car the same color. This was the result, a 1970 Plymouth Barrauda painted in Terracuda Brown with California Gold stripes, both of which are part of Foose's new line of paints developed with BASF.
The unibody of the original car was removed and replaced with a custom frame designed by Chip and built by Art Carr, and every panel of the car has been changed in some way. Chip wasn't satisfied with the front tires symmetry with the front bumpers and fenders, so they've been moved forward three inches to create less of an overhang, and the rear bumper has been cut down and tucked in. http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/05/sema-2008-chip-foose-unveils-his-latest-creation-the-terracuda/




400 hours of work just in the front bumper
Here's the odd part, it was inspired when car fanatic Daren Metropoulos of New York met with Foose and showed him a Breitling watch – with a bronze anodized face - and said “THIS is the color I want.”
Daren has been a business guy that reboots failing companies like Pabst, Hostess and others

Stretched to the extreme


Surf cars


Newsworthy... used car database of salvaged, wrecked, flooded, and other undesireable cars that formerly were sold to unsuspecting buyers

http://www.knx1070.com/Used-Car-Database-Goes-Online/3757491

A way to minimize the chance of buying a used vehicle that is dangerous. Information on how to use the system can be found at www.nmvtis.gov.

That long-ago promise in 1992 was for the formation of a national database of vehicles that were stolen or so badly damaged that they were not worth repairing.

Every state, as well as insurance companies and junk and salvage yards, were to provide information for the database. The idea was simple: Foil evildoers who often sell dangerous vehicles to consumers.

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American LaFrance














Art in design, a beautiful Rolls Royce












I love the guages for the Brass Era time capsule they convey.