Just A Car Guy

Saturday, May 07, 2011

1974 Dodge van, still carries on the 70's van fad with it's original owner

Blue Man Group has a good sense of humor, even in advertising on their van

If you've never heard of Blue Man Group, they are anonymous percussionist musicians that use anything they can hit to make sounds, normally they use some big PVC pipes that slide in and out of each other to vary the tube length and the sound tone, it's very entertaining, and the guys never sign or talk, but are so expressive and good at mime that you enjoy them.

just what is getting put into gas that would peel paint better than aircraft stripper?

I was just reading a letter to a magazine editor last week where the writer was telling how he'd pulled into a town late at night, and gassed up right before turning in. He gets up the next morning to find the fuel had expanded in the hot morning, and ran out of the tank and stripped the paint off the side of his car.

I doubt this is the same car, but it looks like the same thing happened to this guy.

Mix of old and new, a 440 six pack lift off fiberglass hood... with a modern prop rod

First time I've seen anyone do this, pretty good idea so long as they don't leave it up too long in the hot sun. It might warp. Better this hood prop than the hood hinges with springs, they bowed the hoods along the middle with the springs trying to push them up constantly