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I know the red car must be a Kellison with that flip front end, but in the thumbnail it looked like a Devin to me at first! :D
I remember seeing a maroon supercharged '64 Avanti with white interior, DEEP rim Borrais and wide road racing tires blow past me on a Southern...
AIR for the last few decades Junior has been rebuilding and painting old Ferraris. Since the panels tended to be hand-bent over an artisan's thigh...
I like fat fenders and other pre-'58s with quads, but CANTED usually looks best IMO.
Sandblasting's how I got my used 200Ss ($99 for a set of four, 8 1/2 x 15 in 1982!) clean, after taping off the freshly-polished rim areas....
I ALMOST "inherited" my great uncle's '41 Ford pickup (he backed out, saying the flathead and 3 speed would nickel and dime me to death, few...
More like Ritchie Valens on a rare warm day during the Winter Dance Party tour with Buddy and the Bopper...
"Believe it or not, some fool's gonna pay Three Million bucks for one of these Motorama buses in about fifty years..."
Behind Peter Lawford's beach house, Santa Monica 1959. "Jack must be in town" (giggle!)
Joe Weatherly (L) and Curtis Turner, I believe. The original Party Animals of NASCAR.
Helm's Olympic Bakery, West Washington Blvd, Los Angeles - Buildings are still there, mostly antique showrooms and offices today.
Crosley Building exhibit, 1939 New York Worlds Fair, I think
I looked at some reissued classic 1/25 kits in a hobby shop last week, and they were $20-$25 each! Kinda doubt many 12 year olds will mess with...
First-class teams used the Mission Inn (beautifully restored, still covering a full block downtown today) as their headquarters from the '50s into...
The fourth shot in the OP is a '50s GM dream car, I think it was called the "Club de Mer". Either it's a lot smaller than it looked in unoccupied...
GB recovered fully from the curb encounter, IMO he wuz robbed not getting an Oscar for his sensitive portrayal in the Buddy Holly movie. Holly's...
With my '64 I am active on the Corvette Forum among 60,000 other regular visitors. There seem to be many more complaints about Coker than any...
I just saw the Barrett-Jackson catalog for the auction coming up in Scottsdale. A blue two-door "converted" Tucker will be on the block.
I remember the ad someone mentioned, the Kustomags were on a '63 Sting Ray coupe. sitting in a suburban driveway with the front bumpers removed,...
And the Torq-Thrust was offered for sale starting in '56 or '57, mostly on pure drag race machines. They began migrating to street use in '59 and...
I've always been a Torq-Thrust and 200S guy, but Kustomags are okay. The best installations I've seen have the cast areas painted to match the car...
Close but those aren't Weber mount patterns.
The one thing that bugs me about the almost-every-Friday-night car show in old downtown Garden Grove, California is they don't play anything...
Just use one of those fiberglass early 1964 Fairlane 427 Thunderbolt bubbles, pointed in the front and rounded with the twin screens in the back....
At first I thought the hills between La Habra and Bradbury, near Irwindale or Fontana, but all the San Diego racers made me think of the Del Mar...
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