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I LOVE LOVE LOVE THE ELCAMINO

 

This is a few pics in my garage. I am about to put bicycles and a small toolbox on marketplace. I am also trying to “Decrap” it. Hopefully soon I will have scavenged more room.
I will put a few more pictures on here soon.
I wish I had a bigger space because I have a lot more crap I could display.

My son just bought the banner at the reunion in Bowling Green for Father's Day. I had to get it hung up or he would have taken it back.

 

Down in Buellton California, is a very cool place that is a place known to a lot of gear heads and hot rodder's.
A number of years ago, my friend Pete McCleod invited me to attend the annual "GAS-UP"
at Jack Mendenhall's , private family compound, for the annual one day invitation barbecue.

Jack was a dry lakes racer, and he also owned a demolition-construction company. When ever there was an interesting building or a old gas station that was scheduled for demolition, Jack would bid on it, then meticulously take it all apart and save everything that he could from the building. He built this incredible collection of all things automotive.

These are just a few of the shots of the amazing signs and other collectibles at the Family residence.
The Mobile gasoline sign with the Railton stream-liner on it, is one of the most sought after gasoline signs, in the realm of collectible petroleum related products.

 

FYI
32 Deluxe V8 Tudor body off resto - 4 sale

 

Friend of mine just sold a Frontier sign he found in a ditch complete with the tall iron mounting post. Got enough from a Frontier collector to buy a mid priced new car.

 

Here a few shots of some of the “stuff”. There is more so I might be back with a second group of shots.

 

Wow, cool!

 

A night with the Empire v the Rebellion.


Only the strong will survive A night on the Forbidden Planet !!!


Mercury and Leia....

 

The "almost made it" Pixel art to the garage wall in recent times... but fell to the "dust" process as described below...

Hello,

My laptop film editing program is a standard version that is on most Microsoft set up programs for computers, not Apple Macs. Apple products also have a wonderful movie making program and a great photo editing program built in, too. But, once in while, the editing program gives some unusual photos while I am working on something for a short story. Back when I was taking photographs, I always tried to do some double exposure photos with the 35mm film cameras.

Those custom color slides made it to the printer pages and the usual 8 x 10 or 11 x 14 size in their custom frames were scattered all over our apartment, later house and walls of any place we were living at the time. It was simple to print and mount as if the photos were floating inside the deep homemade custom, raw wood, redwood/cedar frames of all sizes. Then, it started with one raw redwood/cedar frame for an offshore wave I took. Then an early antique brown-tone photo in a similar frame.
1940 Ford Sedan Delivery double exposure shot at night in front of the Island Cinema at the Newport Fashion Island complex. It was great build, but the editors wanted color, real color, not Beige, so additional photo shoot ideas were used to get this custom sedan delivery in a magazine. The art photo was not their cup of tea. But, they said it was creative.

Shoot, rewind one film notch to get it on the same slot and then shoot again with a different light setting. It was an experiment in opening the camera without film and using a film cannister with old exposed 35mm film to use as a test rewind. Once the distance of the crank was selected to get the previous shot back in place, then the next real shot would be over the previous photo.

Jnaki

Earlier in my travel photo days, I did try the same idea of a double exposure using people and different backgrounds.
raw redwood/cedar framed art work…

For our photo developing lab, counter workspace for the enlarger and print trays, I made a large waist high heavy duty counter with red fiberglass/resin combo surface, like a finished surfboard gloss. This allowed me to do enlargements, and then, clear out the flat surface to use the liquid trays to finalize the prints. Red gloss resin coat was the final color with some light blue swirls in the finished gloss coat.

4x4 legs and a wooden shelf underneath to store chemicals and supplies made up the sturdy counter/workspace. So, the red legs/gloss finish red top next to the blue file cabinet and yellow drawers made an old garage into a nice colorful workplace for our photo business. If the rains were happening, the Red El Camino was parked across the concrete floor… to add color to the normally drab garage.

Note:

These days, no framed photos are in the garage for art or any decorations. They gather too much dust and that makes more work for me to constantly clean the exposed items. The garage door and windows are sealed well, but there is always “stuff” blowing in when opened each time we drive in or out.

So now, an old, metal surf poster is taking over the wall space, without worries of any form of dust. It fits with my wife’s idea of “less is more…” modern thick walled cabinets + shelves, smooth rolling out deep drawers, a great counter and clean lines showcase our current garage workspace.
But, it is always an “endless summer” in our low key lifestyle, garage or otherwise… No dust gathering framed photos, boxes, tools or even small projects being worked on at the moment. Those all have specific drawers or cabinets to sit in, until I am ready to get back to work. YRMV

 

Fabulous!!

 

I’m not really a ratfink or clowns or dolls or skulls and cross bones kind of guy, but multiple go carts hanging off the walls is something I can get behind.

 

Now I have to move all of this stuff 1200 miles to the new shop, at least it will give me an opportunity to organize a little better.

 

my wall of motorcycle plates in the shed!

 

Tool cabinet that hung in my dads garage since the early seventies ... and now adorns the wall in my garage! Lots of memories working out of this one as a teenager!

 

Ya’ gotta act right…

 

My shop art consists of the signs from the businesses that I have owned over my lifetime.

 

Just a couple of shots, of the fabulous "Squeak Bell" garage, from back in 2016.

 

You guys can't possibly do much work in those garages. If you did you would be dusting off all your stuff at the end of every work day. If you didn't, it would look like crap.

 

Mark
Your kitchen/parts storage is art in itself!

 

Dig the wheels on Moriarity’s kart, ala Pontiac 8-lugs.

 

Garage floor art !!!

 

^^^^Very nice work and beautiful '39 Merc^^^^