Art & Inspiration <<<< Friday Art Show 4/17/20 >>>>

New ink... Take care dudes.. especially you ROBBER, OL' COBBER..

 

..."hunkered down"...

... "sheen on green"...

... exhale the past... inhale the future...

 

Stain glass artwork by Stephen Bonesteel

 

Deep Throat, I+II



It is Friday, right? Anybody else lost track?

Hot Rod Fallout, two thousand something. ALL credit to the Unknown Builders!

Hope all’s well with all of yous....you’re LOOKING good!
Art

 

Mamma gets what Mamma wants...Diggin for the check book.

 

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...r-kind-of-thing.1086809/page-30#post-13538244

@rwrj's putting on a see thru deflector to improve the Driver experience...the concentration of grain in the plywood inspired this Inspiration...if you clic on the thumbnail you can clic the pic and cycle the images...

Happy Friday All and to All a Great Art Show

Credit to All That Inspired This
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A few sketches and a slightly off topic watercolor painting.
Hotrod 33, 55 chevy from 'Sometimes they come back', a channeled and chopped 32 custom , and some rusty german car.

 

Funny thing, Mrs Avater and I were just talking like everyday feels like Saturday lately.

Stay safe, sunny days ahead

 

So I decided I needed a new shop chair and I had some odd shaped metal I wasn’t using. The old seat was gone and the new one is here. I still have to make some cushions, but I like the look of this and it serves as a show piece for my shop with welding, solid rivet, dimple die, louvers, and of course bead rolling. Kind of just put everything into one piece.

 

sign of spring

 

Hello,

In our years at Lions Dragstrip from 1957 to 1960, we participated in the A/Stock class and when that got overloaded with the 100 hp more 409 cars, we moved on to a C/Gas 1940 Willys Coupe. But, during those early 57-59 years, I got to know a person everyone saw at one time or another.

When you took off from the starting line, he was always to your left after the orange tower. If you were in the spectator side stands, he was to the right of the orange tower. If you just finished your race, he was on your left, as you came back to the orange tower to get the Speed and E.T. ticket. It was Mr. Childers from the Dilday Ambulance Services in Long Beach.

(some kid in his khaki pants and blue nylon jacket in a conversation with Mr. Childers.)

They provided all of the emergency needs at the dragstrip. I got to know him quite well as the spot next to his white ambulance was my “secret” photo shooting spot. If I stood next to him and between our conversations, took some movies, the security police thought I was a good friend of Mr. Childers. If it was a new guy on rotation, then I got yelled at and was told to go back to the pits bleachers. The new guys were not very nice.

The white Pontiac Ambulance and Mr. Childers played an important part in our 1940 Willys C/Gas coupe accident. While we all watched the Willys explode and catch on fire, that ambulance was on the run immediately. Atts Ono and I jumped into our 58 Impala and took off down the dragstrip towards the burning Willys wedged in the spectator side fence. As we got there, it was horrendous, with flames coming out of the windows.

We were using every available fire extinguisher around and the ones borrowed from other racers, I thought my brother was inside. But, someone touched my arm and said my brother was back at the white ambulance, just after the timing lights.

As I skidded to a halt in the Impala, Mr. Childers was just putting my brother in the back of his white Pontiac ambulance. Then he told me that the dragstrip will be closing and he would stay with my brother at the hospital until my parents and I arrived ASAP. Friendship has no boundaries… Thanks for the memories, Mr. Childers and the white Pontiac Ambulance.


Jnaki
Thanks, Mr. C...
Note: An eerie coincidence was that Mr. Childers was from the Dilday Family Ambulance Service, a part of the Dilday Mortuary Company from Long Beach. My brother and I both went to high school with the Dilday Brothers from Bixby Knolls.

 

Stay safe Friday 4/17/20 !]

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JNAKI cool story. My 34 Dodge delivery was an Ambulance when it was new. I sanded it down to it's original paint, and it was white with green crosses on the doors. It said Ambulance on the rear side panels. I don't know how to photoshop or do P.C. stuff. So maybe the { Moose } or someone could do a photoshop of it as an Ambulance. Keep in mind I chopped it 3 inches. lol So if anyone wants to try it. { Thanks } Here's a photo you could use. Ron..........

 

Mr. Childers and his 1953 Pontiac Ambulance


Hello,
As you can see, there were different models of ambulances for daily use and specialty use. This 2 door Pontiac version came from the Dilday Family Mortuary Ambulance Services. It was not a commercial big city ambulance. It was a 2 door version, but met the needs of Lions Dragstrip quite well.

Jnaki
Mr. Childers was hired by Dilday Ambulance Services that was under contract to Lions Dragstrip. This ambulance was at Lions Dragstrip from the early days until somewhere around 1964.
1964

 

I've never contributed to the Friday art show before but a friend gave me this hood side and I thought I'd try some sign painting....damn my hands are shakey.

 

...had to do a double-take on this FAS, as the date (was) wrong...
...anyway, here's a "board" I did for a fellow HAMBer,..I really liked this one myself,

 

Driving a Roadster!

 

Sweet and Sweeter

 

Hand colorized B&W...El Mirage