In South Carolina they take the musclecar era real serious, and have some amazing collections that rarely get shown on the internet, I just learned of “Montys Mustangs"

an eclectic private display of more than 30 great Mustangs and Fords owned by Monty and Jennifer Seawright. Monty’s amazing garage is home to many superb Mustangs, including a ’67 GT350, ’68 GT500, a ’69 Boss 302 and Mach 1, a ’70 Boss 9 and Mach 1 – even a low-mileage 1978 King Cobra.

https://performance.ford.com/enthusiasts/quick-look/2019/04/tour-of-monty-s-mustangs.html?cks=420207650&emailid=FP_FASTNEWS

some people have all the luck to learn about a car that was left to someone else to sell after they die

A family friend, Diane, was the longtime caretaker for an older neighbor named Harvey. 

After Harvey’s wife died, Diane would go out and talk to him when Harvey would be cleaning his GTO.

When he passed away, he left her everything, the house, garage, and his 1968 GTO.

Diane wasn’t ready to sell the car initially, so Justin mentioned to her that one day he’d like to own the old Pontiac.

When Diane decided to sell, Justin got to see the GTO for the 1st time. With $7000 cash in hand, they swung open the door of the single-car garage in an old neighborhood in Chicago. He had no idea what to expect other than what Diane had told him: The 1968 GTO with a stick shift.

Justin said he was “beyond excited.” That excitement grew as they moved boxes and stuff out of the way and lifted a tarp off the body. There before him was a real GTO obviously untouched, wearing the original paint and needing minor bodywork.

The GTO had been sitting since 1979.

“We ended up towing the car over to my mechanic to get it checked out. It just needed a tune-up. With new spark plugs, new wires, a water pump, timing chain, and retuning the carburetor, the 400 started up and ran strong all the way to redline. The rear main seal is leaking and that is pretty much it.”

https://www.hotrod.com/articles/1-owner-1968-pontiac-gto-comes-hiding-40-years/

Boeing 747 becomes a tourist attraction at a hotel

A former KLM Boeing 747 aircraft will spend the rest of its retirement days parked in front of an Amsterdam hotel, where it will serve as a museum, exhibit and 5D experience for aviation buffs.

The installation of the double-decker aircraft coincides with the plane's 50th anniversary which was February 9. Over the last few years, airlines have been retiring the jumbo jet nicknamed "Queen of the Skies" en masse, in favor of more fuel-efficient, modern aircrafts.

At the Corendon Village Hotel, visitors will be able access areas of the aircraft that are normally inaccessible to the public, including the cargo area, wing, aircraft belly and cockpit.

Travelers who normally fly economy will also be able to visit the upper deck, normally reserved for high-flying business and first-class passengers. The highlight of the visit is the 5D flight simulation experience, which promises "flying in all its facets."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/boeing-747-becomes-interactive-exhibit-outside-amsterdam-hotel/ar-BBTrLoC

The Jackson's Victory Tour book concert program for 1984... and they were posed with a Jeep? First I've ever seen this. It's crazy what I stumble across while looking for a CCR album cover art photo, huh? !

CCR with a hot rod? First time I've seen these albums, and they all seem to be different photos, from the same minute, just a frame apart in the camera

https://www.discogs.com/Creedence-Clearwater-Revival-Creedence-Gold/release/9110821

Hot Rod Hearts, Robbie Dupree... hell of a 80s song about cruising main street

Ten miles east of the highway
Hot sparks burnin' the night away
Two lips touchin' together
Cheek to cheek sweatshirt to sweater

Young love born in a back seat
Two hearts pound out a back beat
Headlights, somebody's comin'
Got to move

Keep a runnin' with the hot rod hearts
Out on the boulevard tonight
Here come those hungry sharks
Up from the bottom for another bite

School girl brushes her hair back
Blue jeans can't hide the bare facts
Bad boy knows where to find her
Runs the light, sneaks up behind her

Hot rod hearts out on the boulevard tonight
Here come those hungry sharks
Up from the bottom for another bite
True believers livin' on the borderline
They're just dreamers killin' time
Killin' time, killin time
Times are hard for those hot rod hearts
Out on the boulevard tonight
Here come those hungry sharks
Up from the bottom for another bite

Girl with the hot rod hearts tonight
Girl with the hot rod hearts tonight
Keep runnin' with the hot rod hearts
Out on the boulevard tonight
Hot rod hearts out on the boulevard tonight
Hot rod hearts out on the boulevard tonight

This is far out... spotted when he was 14, and sheer extraordinary luck occurred and he bought it at 16, drove it for 200,000 more miles, then stored, until his son now 30 years old said, "Lets fix it up and get it back on the road!" (just more proof that Muscle Car Review is fantastic!)

Above, when he bought it, below, as it it now is returned to day two glory, with the same rear tires!

Ain't that a kick in the head?

In the summer of 1967 14 yr old Larry Porteous and his twin brother, Lee, saw it roar by them on the highway, raised up gasser-style, looking mean and ready to rumble. He decided then and there that he had to have a GTO like that one.

2 years of GTO fever later, determined that at age 16, it was time to buy... they looked in a newspaper, and this very same GTO that they'd spotted on the highway, was for sale at $2200. They sold the trumpet, the bicycle, busted open piggy banks, searched couch cushions, etc and drummed up 600, and mom took out a loan for the rest. (Wow, that's a mom that got a parade for every moms day after that, am I right?)

The speed parts on the car, alone, were $1200 dollars worth. Isky race cam, Mallory dual points, Goodyear Blue Streaks, with super-wide cheater slicks in the back, were mounted on a set of 15-inch American Racing wheels, Edelbrock dual-quad intake topped with a pair of Carters, a Hayes 3,200-pound three-finger clutch and an exhaust system with cutouts.

plus, it's a factory 4 speed.

He street raced it a couple times, never lost, but heard rumors that it was going to get stolen for it's unbeatable engine, and installed a hidden kill switch... which saved it from being stolen, FIVE TIMES!

He did lose 3 8 track players and 2 cassette stereos to those car thieves, but they never got the car.

A year later, it was returned to stock suspension and stock height, with regular wheels, and went sleeper, and all those goodies were put in storage, never lost, and returned to the car in 2018

Until 1992, he put over 200,000 miles on it... in '95 to 96 it got a fresh paint job, and 7 year old son Lance helped polish the rims, and clean the tires for car shows.

In 2018, at age 30, Lance finally convinced his dad to replace all the crazy gasser looking speedfreak parts, and return it to what it looked like on a day in 1967 when Larry was just a 14 yr old kid looking out his parents station wagon window at cars going by on the highway.

https://www.hotrod.com/articles/gasser-style-1967-pontiac-gto-returns-day-two-attitude-altitude/

Inventive ways to prevent hail damage in Texas, found by a local tv channel who just walked around the neighborhoods prior to a forecast for a terrible hailstorm

Filled garbage bags with leaves and rolled them up in the windows to keep them in place.

even a golf cart

but I think that the best and least expensive coverage is the pool noodle

so... one person had this pro system.. have any of you tried this? Does it work perfect? Or a little bit but still some damage, or what?

https://www.nbcdfw.com/weather/stories/North-Texans-Pull-Out-All-the-Stops-to-Protect-Cars-From-Hail-508722461.html

interesting, I just found the local NBC tv station website picked exactly the same photo examples I did, and put them in their own post https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/weird/Texans-Find-Creative-Ways-to-Protect-Cars-From-Hail-508744911.html
https://www.facebook.com/NBCSanDiego/posts/10157137364259609

this year is the 25th anniversary of the Hot Rod Power Tour

I remember when they started the Power Tour, great idea, and it has grown and become quite the impressive annual hot rod event

Hot Rod Power Tour 2019 expects to show and drive over 6,000 vehicles. The 2019 Tour starts off where the 2018 Tour ended, ending where the 1995 Tour began a quarter-century ago.

June 8 zMax Dragway at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Concord, NC
June 9 Martinsville Speedway, Ridgeway, VA
June 10 Bristol Motor Speedway, Bristol, TN
June 11 Kentucky Speedway, Sparta, KY
June 12 Lucas Oil Raceway, Indianapolis, IN
June 13 Allen County War Memorial Coliseum, Fort Wayne, IN
June 14 Summit Motorsports Park, Norwalk, OH

In his March 1995 editorial, Drew wrote; “Join us on our Power Tour. We’re driving several of our project vehicles and personal cars from Los Angeles to Norwalk, Ohio, to attend the first Power Fest. The trip should be a blast, and we want a bunch of you to join us.” They also repeated this message along with the intended route and stops in the next couple of issues.

When the staff met on the roof parking lot of the Petersen Museum early on May 13th for the start, eight adventurous readers showed up to join them for the entire 2,000-mile trip to Norwalk. Only 16 cars, half being Hot Rod project cars or cars driven by magazine staff, along with eight loyal readers. There were also a couple dozen other drivers that would accompany the group for the first leg of the journey. This was it … the humble beginning.

1995 Hot Rod Power Tour

May 13 - Petersen Automotive Museum;
Los Angeles, CA
Salina, Kansas to Chicago, IL
May 20-21 - Hot Rod Power Festival at Norwalk Raceway; Norwalk, OH

I wanted to join in on that, but, the Navy wasn't seeing why they should give me the time off work to go do that.

https://www.performanceplustire.com/blog/hot-rod-power-tour-2019-25th-anniversary/
https://www.bangshift.com/forum/forum/bangshift/unofficial-hot-rod-power-tour-board/1189482-hot-rod-power-tour-origins-history
https://www.hotrod.com/articles/behind-the-scenes-of-the-first-hot-rod-power-tour/

I'm still pissed that the jacket I ordered was swapped, or substituted at the factory, for the Rod and Custom hot rod run jacket instead. Over 200 bucks, and I ordered the Power Tour jacket, and those bastards sent me some bullshit substitute. Did they offer a refund? Nope. Offer to get me the right one when they went back to production for the next year? Nope. They took my money and decided I'd get something I didn't order, and didn't want

I walked past a record store yesterday, and was surprised to see a chopper and 60s skateboard in the display window

the reflctions from the street are terrible, but there isn't a thing I can do about that when taking a picture with my cell phone

this is the prime example, exhibit A, of why non car people ought to be supervised at worst, or even better, not allowed to work on car websites

When looking through some websites "Top 10 greatest ever hot rods" that "changed history by being the fastest, best-looking and most influential" I find the above.

What brain dead moron with no clue of hot rods, history, "best looking" or influential went out and found the complete opposite of everything that the article he wrote, was about?

This is such a contrary example, that I'd say it's the epitome of being the farthest from best looking,  influential, changed history, and greatest ever.

The dumb ass that chose this image is the most deserving of a forehead slap of any human I've heard of in years.

Maybe you don't know why... maybe you're not familiar with the above, and can't understand where I'm coming from, why I'm all bent out of shape about this...

Why, this car? It is one that hasn't been seen in decades, looks terrible, can be proven to have never influenced anyone or any thing. That's why.

How do I know? Simple, the inventor of the t-bucket, Norm Grabowski, started with a simple little T bucket, and that was used in Hollywood, and influenced the world of hot rodding, and kicked off the fad of building T Buckets... and show cars. Goofy looking odd vehicles that only went from show to show, and were made only to win trophys.

That was both the creation, and demise of that original T Bucket, that first of the fad ts that influenced so many hot rods to get built, so many hot rodders to go wrench, and race, changing hot rod history on the track, the auditorium shows, and local cruises around America. It was the greatest ever T bucket, and in an epic irony of a universal nature, it succumbed to it's own fame, when it was later bought by some weirdo, and made into what you see above. And what you see above was late in the show circuit game, looked terrible, mothballed quickly, and disappeared from public awareness, not being seen by anyone, nor even being known to anyone, while it spent the next 40 some years in hiding, only to resurface when the collector died last year.

So, when the above image was used, instead of the ACTUAL influencer, the seminal history making t bucket, I just lost it. I want to tell the jackass that chose this image to quit his job. 

This guy just earned his angel wings for giving Dorothy Peters a reunion, and a ride

https://www.motor1.com/news/295817/former-land-rover-employee-70-years/

new racing old (Demon with a 10.02 is impressive when it walks away from the 69 Charger)

Making the most of a Scion xB, and becoming a part of the local art scene

Notice that the liscense plate is "110 V"

http://lakewoodobserver.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12850

Did you know we owe a great amount of respect to Charles Schwab for the pioneering work in early 1900-1910 automobiles, that set American car making into the worlds best cars? But not the Charles Schwab you're thinking of.

Yes. A guy went over to Europe to take a look at why German and Italian cars were doing so much better at racing, and discovered that the secret was alloy steels, a big improvement over carbon steel.

American cars were still barely more than horseless carriages of course, and the SAE hadn't yet narrowed down the 800 lock washers, 1600 sizes of steel tubing, etc etc

While anyone could make a motorcycle, or automobile, in their garage from spare parts, some blacksmithing, and ingenuity, there was no universal sizing, no industry standards, and no quality processes. So, a lot of parts just broke apart because there was no engineering developed yet to improve the materials and production processes.

But when Edward Gallaher returned from his tour of European car makers, with the discovery that allow steels were the secret to improving axles, hubs, transmission gears, differentials and driveshafts... to the degree that the steel was 3 times stronger, and the parts could be smaller and lighter.

Gallaher met with Charles Schwab, owner of Bethlehem Steel, and convinced him to explore high grades of alloy steels, and then supply those better steels to the major manufacturers of parts and cars. And that fast, American cars went from heavy and low durability parts, to lighter and longer lasting parts! And racing became far more competitive between the CONUS car makers, and the European makers.

Schwab then set Bethehem Steel apart by pioneering the H beam, with the new stronger alloy steels, and revolutionized building construction into the age of the skyscraper. This grew Bethlehem Steel into the worlds 2nd largest steel company

Schwab also was brilliant at business, and had quickly worked his way into, through, and promoted from engineer, to manager, to general superintendent of a steel company, to president of Carnegie Steel, which he secretly sold to investors including JP Morgan, and then became president of US Steel, and then left to found Bethlehem Steel.

He also landed the contract to supply the rails to the Trans Siberian, by providing a $200,000 "gift" to the mistress of the Grand Duke Alexis Aleksandrovich

http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2011/07/lost-1906-charles-m-schwab-mansion.html

Coffee and Donuts video! The first joy ride, and how Bertha Benz started a human race to get off horses, and into automobiles and create a gas station industry as well ! (Thanks Larry W !)

In a time when “car” was not even a word yet, and people relied on horses to pull their wagons, one woman challenged the status quo. To prove to the world that her husband’s invention was the future of mobility, Bertha Benz went on the first long-distance journey with an automobile, facing all kinds of challenges but stopping at nothing.

Fantastic short film! Thanks Larry Wood!

Bertha was born in 1849, into an age when women were denied access to higher education.

However, Bertha already became interested in technical matters at an early age. Whenever her father, a carpenter who had reached a position of considerable wealth, explained the workings of the locomotive to her, her eyes would light up.

When she was allowed to attend a school for high-born daughters at the age of nine, her favourite lessons were those on "natural science". She was all the more shocked when she read the following entry in the family bible one day: "Unfortunately only a girl again". The entry had been made by none other than her beloved father when she was born. According to the legend, this triggered her subsequent determination to show the world that the female sex is also capable of great things.

Bertha Ringer was attractive, clever and socially accomplished when she reached marriageable age. And from a wealthy family. There was a long list of suitors. However, fate decreed that during a coach excursion organised by the “Eintracht” club on 27 June 1869, a penniless young engineer joined Bertha and her mother in their coach.

When he brought the subject around to the horseless carriage on which he was working, young Bertha lost her heart to him. Despite his careless appearance and odd manner: Carl Benz was the man she wanted by her side for the rest of her life.

https://www.mercedes-benz.com/en/mercedes-benz/classic/bertha-benz/

Finally, police with a sense of humor, who are suggesting to morons that they learn how to park correctly. Who ever thought of this should get a promotion and a pay raise

Please stay in the lines when you park ESPECIALLY if it's next to a handicapped spot or you might be the recipient of one of the new fliers.

https://www.facebook.com/SouthlakePublicSafety/photos/a.200125026726161/2656184564453516/?type=3&permPage=1
https://www.powernationtv.com/post/texas-police-are-giving-out-coloring-tickets-to-help-bad-drivers-park

there are some speed limit changes for the better coming up, if a bunch of laws are passed in a lot of states

In West Virginia, the change to the posted speed from 70 mph to 75 mph.

The Oklahoma legislation wants to raise the turnpike to 80 mph from the current 75mph and would also make rural interstate highways from 70 to 75 mph.

Montana would only raise truck speed limits on interstate highways from 65 mph to 70 mph throughout the day. Currently, state highways are limited to 60 mph during the day and 55 mph at night.

Massachusetts would increase the state’s 65 mph speed limit to 70 mph

Kentucky will increase the speed limit from 65 mph to 70 mph on Interstate 165 and I-64.

California will get rid of speed differential for cars and trucks, and allow faster travel for all vehicles on portions of Interstate 5 and state Route 99.

Arkansas is proposing a bill for higher speed limits on certain highways and mandate a 75 mph speed limit on freeways outside urban areas while large trucks would be allowed to travel up to 70 mph.

https://www.powernationtv.com/post/changes-in-speed-limit-laws-being-pursued-across-the-country

A lot of us born before cable tv (1980) will remember the old storyline so often rehashed, of how the damsel in distress gets tied to the railroad tracks so the bad guy can pull off a bank robbery while the hero is busy saving her

Here is it wonderfully rendered in a pretty cool style that seems to be similar to local theater advertising

http://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2019/03/colliers-magazine-part-9.html
Colliers Magazine 1935 September  by Anthony Fraioli

Colliers, 1938 November cover by C.C. Beall ( Cecil Calvert Beall )

http://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2019/03/colliers-magazine-part-10.html

Jay Irving's sidecar cops in the PD4

there must have been a thing this artist had for these two characters, but I don't know what that was

http://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2019/03/colliers-magazine-part-11.html

Vernon S.P. Grant, who invented the Snap Crackle Pop elves for Kellogs, was quite a famous illustrator (please note the middle initials, so as to not confuse this with a famous Wisconsin artist of the same name)

These little booklets were distributed by stores, and this one below (Cow and Silver Cream)  has the printed address of Rudy's Meat Market in Portland Maine.

Grant was born on April 26, 1902, in Coleridge, Nebraska. When Grant was six years old, his family moved to South Dakota where they homesteaded.

 His experiences living on the prairies served as the inspiration for many of the artworks he would create throughout his career. While there he also learned illustration techniques from his beloved school teacher cousin Nellie Grant.

 As a teen, Grant moved with his family to California. He studied business law and public speaking at the University of Southern California and, at age 21, enrolled in the Art Institute of Chicago.


Vernon Grant was an illustrator best known for his creation of the SNAP! CRACKLE! AND POP! characters for Kellogg's and his whimsical magazine covers for "Collier's", "Ladies Home Journal", and many others. He is only 2nd to Norman Rockwell in the amount of published works

In 1933 he approached the Kellogg’s® ad agency with a clever idea for selling Rice Krispies® cereal.  Grant’s idea was to appeal to children who could greatly influence their parents’ buying habits. After receiving inspiration from the Singing Lady’s Rice Krispies radio jingle which had a snap, crackle and pop noise in the background, he drew three gnomes, naming them “Mr. Snap,” “Mr. Crackle, and “Mr. Pop.”

Kellogg’s ad agency, N.W. Ayer, put Grant on an immediate retainer of $5000. The Kellogg Company used Grant’s talents through 1941 and paid him close to a quarter of a million dollars. Although modified from Grant’s original images, Snap!® Crackle! ® and Pop! ® are still used today and are among the most famous images in American advertising.

He soon became the lead illustrator for Kellogg's products, becoming so popular that in 1935 the company sent him on a world tour to promote their cereals.

In 1938, Life magazine ranked Grant as "America's favorite children's artist."

Grant worked with the USO during World War II, entertaining troops with sketches and fast-paced chalk talks.

Grant’s illustrations appeared in print on the covers of national magazines, advertising products, greeting cards and children’s books from the 1920s through the 1970s

When Vernon Grant moved to Rock Hill in 1947 from New York he brought many progressive ideas to this community and region, accepted the position as manager of Rock Hill’s Chamber of Commerce, and  helped to lay the ground work for York Technical College

He co-founded Rock Hill, South Carolina's annual spring festival, Come-See-Me, and created it's mascot, Glen the Frog. http://www.comeseeme.org

ChristmasVille, a holiday festival in Rock Hill, celebrates the magical art of Vernon Grant with festive holiday decorations, santas, and gnomes. http://www.ChristmasVilleRockHill.com

In 1945, at the height of his career, Vernon Grant made $1000 a week illustrating ads for everything under the sun from cereal to automobiles, from chocolates to razor blades, from men’s shirts to electrical appliances. His gnomes, pretty, sexy-looking girls and love-struck couples were on the fronts of America’s top magazines.


Grant continued making art until, in 1985, he felt he could no longer work to his own expectations and was forced to retire. When he died in 1990 at age 88, the Charlotte Observer noted that although Grant's illustrations would delight people for years, "in the long run his greatest gift to the community may be the standard of citizenship he exemplified." As was not uncommon in that greatest of generations that got the world through WW2



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Simeon_Plemion_Grant
http://www.vernongrant.org/as-illustrator.html
http://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2019/03/colliers-magazine-part-13.html
https://www.pinterest.com/bkittlecreative/vernon-grant/?lp=true
http://oldchildrensbooks.com/books/the-cow-and-the-silver-cream-19401