Indian Ben's "Scary Fast" Creeper Seat Racer

Tow Mater's disguises... and with all the monster truck posts I've had lately, here is his "Monster" truck disguise

Cars, and Cars 2... great movies. I've enjoyed all the full length movies I've seen from Pixar, and most of the short pre movie cartoons... the people at Pixar set a new standard for animation, and did an incredible job on how a world would look from the viewpoint of personable automobiles if people didn't exist

"Cars 2" movie from Pixar/Disney had a few natural stone formations converted to automotive looking themes

The Mater Horn... witty

"Cars 2" movie from Pixar/Disney had a lot of small details of conversion to automotive looking architecture

 they call it Big Bentley in the movie

 They were right smart to label it Holden

 Leave Spring under the above bridge, and replacing the cables in the London Bridge below

 through out the movie you'll see statues of cars instead of people

 I totally dig the wire wheel in the Eiffel tower, could be based on Kelsey Hayes, but who knows

 the side of the Notre Dame looks like an exhaust header

 A valve cover topping the Arc De Triumphe

 a piston for an elevator

 A Boyce Motormeter in the above building

 the light shade looks like an type of engine

I didn't see all of these the first time or the second time I watched the movie... but I saw a lot of them, and found the rest when looking for them specifically for this post

Vintage Xmas home video of a train set under the Xmas tree... from Next Stop Decature Blogspot (the best small town blog about towns I've ever seen, might as well be the textbook how to of small town blogs)

found on http://next-stop-decatur-ga.blogspot.com/

might be a Pinto, but it still got the babe!

found on http://reservatory6.blogspot.com/

"Imported from Detroit" what that breaks down to

"a Canadian car, a Mexican engine, a Brooklyn rapper and a song sample from Tennessee"

Automobile Magazine Jan 2012 issue, page 12

Another example of Ezra Dyer being one of the few great humorous automotive writers you can find

The most incredible thing about the all-wheel-drive Veyron is not its engine but its drivetrain. A Veyron just digs in and goes. I try not to indulge in hyperbole, but when I floor the Veyron, we pass a tribe of Morlocks and the Wicked Witch of the West, and the sky turns green and commuters fly past on personal dirigibles, and then I hit the brakes and we return to our dimension.

I have a split second to think, "Hey, this is fast but controllable." Then the turbos hit.
It's like a bomb went off behind the rear bumper and we're surfing the shockwave. I upshift and it happens again, except now we're going much faster. The rear end scrabbles for traction and I find myself countersteering at perhaps 65 mph. I back off the gas, because I am not ready to visit third gear of the Mosler Raptor on this particular street. Not even if Waylon Jennings were sitting next to me singing the Dukes of Hazzard theme song.

http://www.automobilemag.com/features/columns/1201_dyer_consequences_has_rear_wheel_drive_reached_its_limit/index.html 

Shelby Pit Stop Deodorant, unopened can went for $1026.98 on Ebay

 above image from the book Cobra Fifty Years and the below is from some car magazine in 1968

the ebay info was in the Feb 2012 Automobile magazine

The least anyone ever paid for a Ferrari GTO: £750

 A very famous collector, who has one of the finest noses for sniffing out a deal, hears a whisper that the first James Bond Aston Martin DB5 may be for sale. This is back in the day. 

The word is that for the right money, the original James Bond car can be bought directly from the movie studio. So he makes a few calls, he tracks down the production guy, the one who can price and sell, and the guy says: “It’s gonna have to be 15 for the pair.”

“You mean there are two?”

“Hey man, this is showbusiness, there’s always two… at least.”

“But 15 for the pair,” says our man. “I wasn’t counting on spending that much and I don’t really want two – I just want one.”

“Well, that’s the deal. Take it or leave it.”

Fifteen thousand pounds – a lot of money now, a load of money then. Our hero hesitates for a moment, but his nose knows better. It tells him to deal, deal now. He buys the cars.

The cash is to be paid on delivery of both vehicles. The day arrives, the trailer pulls up, the cars roll off. The invoice reads: "Fifteen HUNDRED Pounds". 

Yes friends, both original Bond cars for £1,500, but it doesn’t end there. Be prepared to run to the hills screaming. 

Our man then swaps one of the Bond cars for a GTO. That’s a GTO for £750. That’s the cheapest GTO ever and... he still has it today.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/classiccars/3398352/Chris-Evans-Why-the-Ferrari-250-GTO-is-the-best-possible-investment.html

All Hitler wanted was a Harley for Sturgis (funny adaptation of a movie clip)

Thanks to my buddy Mike who often sends me cool and funny stuff like this to share with all of you!

Pulling teeth made easy the motorcycle way

found on http://acesdeluxe.blogspot.com/2011_07_01_archive.html

Opening a car door for a girlfriend... what it means

Either the car is new, or the girlfriend is

What to do with kids or toddlers when going for a drive 100 years ago was simple, put them in a car seat... but where the car seat was located was unreal by todays standards

 on the far back, or the far front, it's like the idea that placing a kid over a bumper never spraked the notion that kids in the proximity of a bumper become a bumper. Our ancestors seem to have lived by sheer accidental good luck sometimes.

all found on http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/179374/251713.html?1323523343

I wouldn't believe it if I didn't see these photos, a car hit by a kiddie train

photos from http://blog.nola.com/interact/2011/10/head-scratcher_of_the_day_city.html via http://fuckyeahwrecks.tumblr.com/

More cool photos found on SwissStache Tumblr

found on http://swissstash.tumblr.com/