Art & Inspiration ///////Friday Art Show 05-15-2020\\\\\

Hey Gang! Let's get it started!

I started this one a week ago but bailed on it because my proportions on the car body were a joke. Rebooted it today and got much preferred results. I added a distraction just in case the mistakes are glaring...


work in progress.... Had hoped to finish today:



I did finish it! Mostly...

 

...haha.. bitchin' Jigger... I'll finish cookin' my stew...





Done! Good morning America...

 

Artist: Ruben Duran

 

I'm still lettering with a brush after 60 years. Thanks to HAMBer Gene Koning for this opportunity. -Mark

 

Landrum’s, a Reno, NV icon from 1947 to 1986, open 24 hours a day, was a popular late night spot to eat. Originally billed as “Landrum’s Hamburger System Number 1”, it never got beyond the original operation. The seven seat Valentine Steel building is again a food facility after going through several different iterations, back to serving burgers as intended. Illustrated here in its mid-1960s motif.

 

Two More.

 

...Elegance of a Former Grace

Happy Friday...the Color of Summer is Near Upon Us

Credit to All that Inspired This
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Here’s a 4x10 radio delete panel for a Hot Rod build.
Also Hobo’s Hot Rod Garage has tee shirts available for shipping in stock sizes L and XL but another reorder coming soon. Message me for details

 

“NHRA B/FX competition, where entries had to carry 9.0 to 12.99 pounds per cubic inch. By contrast, the A/FX weight break was 0 to 8.99 pounds per cubic inch, and C/FX was for cars with 13.0-plus pounds per cubic inch.”

“The 289 powered B/FX Comets were prepared for Mercury by Bill Stroppe Engineering, Long Beach, CA. The NHRA Factory Experimental class of 1962–1966 fostered incredible innovation (and some amusing lip service to Wally Park’s rule book). While “stock” class Max Wedge and Race Hemi vehicles had to be available (in modest numbers) to the Average Joe, FX rules invited one-off mixing and matching of engines, suspension components, and vehicles as long as the items were from the same manufacturer’s parts bins. It truly was a playground for factory performance engineers.”

Original Lions Dragstrip Museum display

Hello,

We have all been aware of Jack Chrisman’s A/FX Comet sedan from the early 60’s. Here is the baby brother (Cousin, actually) that can run in the B/FX class. It has all of the local sponsors that would/could have been on the 1960-63 Falcon Ranchero. It comes equipped with a supercharged 427 Ford big block or a pushed to the limits 289 block.

These so called “factory parts” builds pushed the limits of what could be done with stuff from the stock parts bin. Despite the fact that the stock parts bin was regulated to those with factory ties and were usually, well known drag racers.

What about the backyard guys with dreams of being drag racers, with what limited budgets were around back then? Could they also be in the FX game at the local dragstrips? Even with friends who worked in the parts departments of the local Chevy and Ford dealers?

Jnaki

Here is one version of a B/FX Ford Falcon Ranchero built from the ground up, to roll with the big guys. Smoke producing power and all…

 

Great start, stay safe, a couple of oldies.

Image by edcodesign posted May 12, 2018 at 11:00 AM

Image by edcodesign posted Apr 27, 2018 at 1:40 PM

 

Great way to start the "Friday Art Show".

 

Packwood oil painting

 

Oliver Nitsch

 

That’s awesome Thank you for sharing!

 

Lonely days

 

Stuck at home, want to create your own hand drawn artwork?
Offering up a USPS small box stuffed full of Sharpie markers, pens, pencils, mechanical pencils all for free. If you are interested and can put these to good use then be the first to send me a PM with a valid shipping address and I will get these out to you.
Stay safe, be creative.
Joe

 

Salt Flats '34 coupe in another future.
Influenced by the Netflix series, "Tales from the loop" where robots,
vehicles and strange objects serve, and alternately, complicate human life.

 

{ JOKEM59 } That's very cool of you. But I'm just a pencil, and pen guy. Stay safe. Ron.........

 

My daughter-in-law, a third grade teacher in a depressed school district,
was a recipient of one of Jokem59's writing utensil care packages. The
kids were both thrilled and appreciative. It was a great gesture on Joe's part.

 

...drew up this board for a friend of his 36 Ford old drag car that raced in central Illinois in the early 50's,...

 

This came in the mail this week. I’m an old trophy junkie. I think it's art. Gary

 

Four speed Hurst shifter drawn on a White Rose gas station invoice.

 

Nothing new.