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Previously posted on the Drag cars in motion...Magnante getting skyward in the Wilshire Shaker at Musclepalooza XVI on Sunday. [IMG] Bigger here.
Boot me out if this new shot doesn't fit in, but here's Magnante getting skyward in the Wilshire Shaker at Musclepalooza XVI on Sunday. [IMG]...
Drove it into a pole. $16,000 and a whole lot of grief from a whole lot of people.
It's less the face full of steam than the fact the boiler is in front of you and you can't see the road.
I got the Eastwood Kafka kit. It's pretty cool. http://www.eastwood.com/kafka-pinstriping-starter-kit.html
That's a Randy DeLisio job--I think more than half of the Thunderbolts and lightweight Comets have been under his hands. Lightweight CJs too....
Thankee Roy. I surely do. [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG]
Comet, but not in the day; shot The White Rat a couple of weeks ago. [IMG]
My (great (great great?)) uncle Nate's mug shot. David Nathanial Watik (Watnikoff), doing time at Brushy Mountain in the 40s for armed robbery...
You're right about that, you'll pay for the Pontiac 455 if you can even find one. There is a damn big heap of power to be made from the Pontiac...
November 5. Some cool pics, starts P 86. Online at http://books.google.com/books?id=r0wEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA87&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false [ATTACH]
Whoops--it's in Life in 1945. [ATTACH]
I've been wondering about this too, and to give this thread a bump, here's the earliest I can find the term in print, LA Times, March 25 1946. By...
An anyone point me toward that thread? I can't find it. ...never mind.
Condensed version: Wheels of human hearts, Her clutch, light, but O! So firm. My motor girl rolls. Howzat?
I know how I suck And got it awfully wrong: Couldn't find old thread.
My motor girl, my motor girl, how she doth set my heart awhirl as, with a rush, she madly hikes along the overcrowded pikes! Her silvery laughter...
Spring wheels go back about 125 years earlier than that. http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2010/10/19/earlier-and-resilienter/
Yeah they are!
Why, yes. Yes I do.
Dudes, I'm the guy who wrote that VIN thing in the first place. For background, I own a '31 Chevy project that doesn't have a number on it...
That must be the Luo Wenyou Classic Car Museum! Did it look like this on the outside? [IMG] via...
Here's a whole bunch about it http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2007/05/01/big-oil-conspiracy-376-mpg-opel-uncovered/
Wait...1911 Staver...Wigles..Glen Wiglesworth? Owner of the HC Staver Special? The January issue of Hemmings Classic Car will have Part I of II...
· 1905 Autobuggy, Forney Museum, Denver · 1908/1909 ER, Tucson. Restored · 1910 Model H (Model I engine), Salt Lake City. Restored · 1911 Harry...
@Kurtis, Well, A), Look for the first part of two on Staver in your January issue of Hemmings Classic Car, and B), The company in question...
Are you actually looking for a racing history of Staver? I'm the dude writing the story for HCC; there's a sidebar on racing in the story that...
'Piece of plastic wrap on the surface of the paint works good. Put the lid on over that. Be sure to filter/strain it before next use, no matter...
Nice car...Sean. Wouldja believe: 1967 Mazda Luce 1500 Deluxe, South African manufacture. They built 50 for testing but never went into...
I'm digging that Miller ambulance.
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