Alright, indulge me with one last video on old family cars with a special connection. This film by Hagerty Insurance is more a story about reuniting parents with their special car, but it’s the same idea. This is another guy that will likely keep the car in their family forever, and I love the idea [...]
Motion Pictures
Keeping It Forever… Part III
Posted on February 28th, 2013 by Jive-Bomber
Filed under: Motion Pictures
Filed under: Motion Pictures
Keeping it Forever… Part II
Following up on my previous post about when to keep a special car, I now present this great video called “Time Machine” of a man that found his father’s actual car after 70 years. I couldn’t help but well up a bit as he explains what happened and how the little Peugeot came back to [...]
Circa 1953
A few months ago, I got an email from a fella working for Levi’s asking about some vintage hot rod footage I had featured a number of years ago. He claimed there was a small inner-gang within Levi’s that called themselves the “Levi’s Vintage Clothing” group and, apparently, these folks had a real appreciation for [...]
I kinda miss Oakland…
No, not the town. I miss going to the Grand National Roadster Show when it was still in Oakland. Of course the Pomona show is bigger and 10 times better with cooler cars, decent food and impressive grounds… And yes it’s true that your less likely to get jumped in the parking lot at the [...]
Death Sprint In Terror Canyon
In 1971, three men lined up in Terror Canyon with an eye towards figuring a grudge only to get interrupted by the fuzz. The result was costly… deadly even… and Terror Canyon has NEVER been the same. Amazingly, it was all caught on film: This film was created by Pete Dawson, Ben Woollen, Dan Inglis, [...]
Junkyard Memories
Some of you can probably relate to this story, as I grew up in the late 70s and early 80s suburbia going to ‘real’ car junkyards as a kid. They used to be those dirty old places on the “other side of the tracks” where dogs roamed the streets and nobody decent wanted to go. [...]
Chryslers Rule… Jayne Mansfield Drools…
You’ve seen Top Gear, right? It’s a British show featuring a few limey characters that test drive super cars under all kinds of crazy scenarios and then report back with witty commentary. It’s actually quite watchable. There’s also an American version, but… well, it doesn’t deserve mentioning here. Anyway, one of the more common formats [...]
In-Car Footage: Scarab
In the 1950′s, Lance Reventlow used his family’s Woolworth fortune to go racing. Using many of the same players that went on to develop the Cobra, including Carol Shelby, Lance set out to build the ultimate American bread race car. That car was the Scarab. If you are interested in the nitty gritty of it [...]
Hot Rod Doors
As a group, we are a capricious bunch. Which is ironic when you really think about it. I mean, we do call ourselves traditionalists, right? Even so, one year black Fords with red steel wheels are it and the next they are cliche. Young guys stick their chests out and claim they never considered such [...]
