I just left two days of not stop walking and gawking at the Spielwarenmesse International Toy Fair Nürnberg in Germany, where nearly 2,800 exhibitors from around the world are spread out over 12 massive halls, showing the lastest in everything from toys to games. It’s really an amazing show on the scale of something like [...]
Art & Inspiration
Greetings from Nuremberg…
Posted on February 1st, 2013 by Jive-Bomber
Filed under: Art & Inspiration
Filed under: Art & Inspiration
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. [...]
Speed Dreams. The Fastest Place on Earth.
Here is some video that’s worth watching (when you have a few hours to kill) that proves the passion we have for The Salt is universal, global, and mighty hard to shake. BBC follows groups of Brits and Scots designing, building and running various vehicles at Bonneville in hopes of getting in the SCTA books. [...]
Old Cars open doors..
About a month ago I got a request from a high-end cosmetics company wanting to ‘rent’ my ’57 Pontiac Safari for their Mad Men-themed Holiday party in San Francisco. In reality, they just wanted my old car parked out in front of the club for 4 hours to add to the ambience, and so guests [...]
Bruce Meyer’s “Used Cars”…
Back in October, I headed down to LA for a fund-raising event at the Petersen Auto Museum. Southern California is full of so many awe-inspiring car places and great people, but I always try to connect with Bruce Meyer whenever I’m down that way. He is the consummate car guy in every sense of the [...]
Johnny Lightning Barris Show Rods
If your really into hot rods, chances are you are also into collecting some sort of hot rod-related stuff too. Die cast perhaps? It’s hard to name just one car nut I know that didn’t play with Hot Wheels, Tootsie Toys, or Matchbox cars as a kid. It’s also common for this die cast car-collecting [...]
As They Were… In Motion.
As a follow up to Ryan’s great post from yesterday, I found myself pouring over color footage of cars in motion from the mid to late 1950s. I landed on this fun clip of Los Angeles streets from around 1953 (notice the new Ford’s on the transport truck leaving the Long Beach plant) . It’s [...]
Box Art!
Not that kind of box… For Christ’s sake, what are you? Some kind of perv? No. I mean model car box art. It rules… You remember this post, right? I think it’s time we bring it back to the top and get it going again. So, what you got? And just to get your creative [...]
