Saturday, November 25, 2006

Terrific photo of a streamliner on the salt


Love Mooneyes stuff

Worlds fastest car hauler. 200 mph, had the same engine as the Mercedes Benz winning race car it transporter in the 40's or 50's.




Update: http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2008/10/16/the-cheetah-transporter-an-unlikely-el-camino/

Holtkamp finished work on the Transporter in about 1961, judging from the dates of the magazine articles Hacker’s collected (Sports Car Graphic, November, 1961; Car and Driver, December, 1961; and the above-mentioned How-To Book of Hot Rods). Holtkamp also apparently planned limited production, offering Cheetah Transporters for $16,000. It appears, however, that only one was built, the one Hacker currently owns. According to Hacker, Holtkamp owned the Cheetah Transporter until 1971, when he sold it to Dean Moon. Moon owned it until his death, at which point it was sold to race car collector Jim Degnan, who in turn sold it to Hacker in 2006.

Bench-racing stats of Musclecars



Quickest and fastest stats from Hot Rod Magazine, June 1984




Double entendre ads no one is brave enough to try nowadays. Click on them to enlarge




The beautiful AMX-3

http://e-carzone.com/american_motors/ source of the yellow AMX 3 pics, the only one painted yellow. Only 3 exist I think, it's the only yellow one.

The AMX 3 was the design of Dick Teague. A long time hot rodder, and head of design at AMC.




Dick Teague story written years ago, but a good story.

Listed in his current stable are two of only five AMX III concept, European-style sports cars hand-built in Italy in 1968.

He also has a production AMX 2-seater, a '60 Corvette, A '61 Berlinetta, a rare vintage Ferrari, 1906 and 1932 Packards, one of only six 1904 Ramblers extant, an early Polk-Hartford and his most prized possession -- a 1907 American (no kin to AMC) Underslung he recently acquired after a 35-year pursuit.

He considers it "the first American sports car," and its frame uniquely was placed under its springs. The low, hunkered-down appearance that resulted was striking during an era when most cars looked like phone booths on wheels.

Underslung's 476 cu.-in. (7.8L) 4-cyl. engine, good for 50 hp, stood out as well.

A witty, colorful storyteller, Mr. Teague recalls that while dating his wife-to-be, Marian, he told her he'd marry her if she ever located an Underslung.

Only 2,000 copies were built during the Indianapolis automaker's 1906-'13 existence. By Mr. Teague's count, only 27 survive. Marian, to his surprise, soon got wind of four -- all owned by one family in Pennsylvania. "She said 'I found an American Underslung. Now we'll have to get married.'" Mr. Teague chortles. He kept his vow the next year.

All four cars sat idle until restored in the mid-'60s. It took two more decades to convince the family to part with one, purchased new by its patriarch in 1907. Why'd they sell? "I guess it was my persistence," says Mr. Teague. "Maybe they felt it would get a good home."

The first Shelby Cobra

http://www.petersen.org/default.cfm?DocID=1014&cat=Shelby&ExhibitID=264&index=6 has a pic of the car recently in the Peterson museum in Pomona (part of Los Angeles).

Shelby races Mickey Thompson, wonder who won?

Tribute to Mickey Thompson



Sunoco 260, race gas at a gas station pump. Those were the days

Steve McQueen, loved to race

Farmer pissed at car salesman, wrote a sign, hung it in a dealership

Ed "Big Daddy" Roth's t-shirt ad



Photo by Dean Moon, the originator of Moon-eyes. One icon, photographing another... huh.

I bet no one did this to their Camaro, and what's the scoops on the hood? Firebird options?

click to enlarge any picture

Click to enlarge any picture.
Click to enlarge any picture.

THE Breedlove Bonneville Javelin, record setter, sold in a classifed in Hot Rod

Shelby intake manifolds



Various Shelby ads, 1968-1970 Hot Rod magazine





For sale, 1953 Corvette, numbers matching. 1969 classified in Hot Rod

500 horsepower snowmobile, by Larry Shinoda... wonder how it turned out? Obviously didn't catch on.

The great Beer keg controversy


Jackass.