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Minggu, 01 Januari 2012

Looked like a 34 hot rod, with a 427 cammer, so it was bought at a swap meet... when the new owner stripped it down to check it out, discovered it was built on a stolen Shelby Cobra chassis

21.25 427 AC Cobra, AC Cobra, Hot rods, Shelby, Stolen No comments

found in the book Shelby Cobras Fifty Years, photos by Jeff Burgy

Spotted this on the way to work.... it was a good day

20.18 Custom, Hot rods, scallops No comments

Hot Rod finally published some cool rat rods and hot rods, 2 months after I posted this photo, you can read about it in this months issue of Hot Rod Magazine

20.44 Hot rods, magazine, Rat Rods No comments

Here is the 1936 IH truck bodied, Mark Sax owned, but built by Chris Watkins of CNA Performance from Oct 8th http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/10/rat-rod-with-50s-coronet-tailfins-cool.html

Look at pages 30 through 33, Feb 2012 Hot Rod

Hot Rod Magazine finally covers some pinstriping (About time!) they have ignored it for about 40 years

18.42 art, artist, Hot rods, pinstriping No comments

Hot rod Feb 2012 issue

Manuel Cisneros pinstriping http://www.cisnerospinstriping.com/ and my galleries of his work http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/08/great-kustom-that-belongs-to-one-of.html and

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/07/great-looking-harley-terrific.html

David Allen Garcia designs http://www.kustomrama.com/index.php?title=D.A._Designs

Craig Fraser http://ebooksfreedownload.org/2011/04/kustom-pinstriping-techniques-with-craig-fraser.html

Cool photos from Saint of Los Angeles, who found them everywhere (sources not cited)

15.32 Hot rods, Motorcycle, photography, Rat Rods No comments

http://saints-of-la.blogspot.com/ and you can see that some photos have watermarks from their sources, but not all, and if you go to Saints, you won't find these images unless you click on the "Read More" after every post photo

the Don Lee special, built by Frank Kurtis. Ford body and chassis, Cord fenders, Offenhauser engine

21.03 Don Lee, dry lakes racing, Hot rods, Kurtis, LSR, racing. LSR, streamliner No comments

This is the Don Lee special, built by Frank Kurtis in 1936. The other four "Don Lee Specials" are posted in different posts and without much finesse http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/Don%20Lee

Tommy approached Frank with a project. He wanted the best looking and fastest hot rod in Southern California… and he wanted Frank to build it.

Frank thought the Cord was a smart look and Tommy agreed. Frank felt a Cad motor would be appropriate, but Tommy balked. He wanted the best of the best and that meant this car was going to get a 318-inch Offy. A direction was set and work began.

Frank started with a 1936 Ford chassis and Cord front and rear fenders. From there, the car just blossomed into something VERY unique and VERY fast

Don left millions to his son Tommy, who at age 45 jumped from the 12th story of the Wilshire hotel, leaving 10 million to potential heirs to fight over

Tommy’s roadster ran on the dry lakes of Southern California with limited success. Improvements might have been made and potential realized if not for a tragedy that happened just prior to the war. On an intersection in Hollywood, CA, Tommy was t-boned by a truck and he was badly injured.

Tommy lived the rest of his life in a great deal of pain. He tried to play through and continued buying a number of hot rods and race cars as well as a few fighter planes (p38). But the joy of speed just wasn’t enough to overcome the pain.

On January 13, 1950, Tommy had his driver take him to the dentist. He got on the elevator and went to the 12th floor roof. He then jumped to his death leaving behind a 10 million dollar fortune, a huge automobile and aircraft collection, a radio station, and a television business http://www.jalopyjournal.com/?p=7365

These are screen shots from the 1940 Harpers Dry Lakes racing video that Dave from http://www.seabrighthotrods.com/ just added to youtube

Comparing the above photo with the last photo below that shows this car in street form vs racing form, I don't see a door handle or hinge in the above racing form

notice that the street exhaust is different from the racing exhaust

these last two images from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/?p=7365

For the other Don Lee Special that I posted this summer http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/06/don-lee-special.html

1940 Harper Dry Lake SCTA racing home video from a 8mm camera thatSeabrightHotRods.com Dave's uncle brought in

20.01 dry lakes racing, Hot rods, LSR, racing. LSR, streamliner, vintage No comments

And credit to Travis http://perichbrothers.blogspot.com/2011/12/first-100-unearthed-hot-rod-video.html
for getting the screenshots, and Santa Cruz Dave for getting the home movie digitized and share with everyone! Dave's website is http://www.seabrighthotrods.com/

Thanks Travis!

if you get a kick out of dry lakes hot rodders, check out the color photos from 1947 and 1948 that have turned up on the internet last year:
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/04/looks-like-el-mirage-in-1948-they.html
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/04/back-to-1948-and-el-mirage-im-excited.html
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/02/chris-at-speed-seekers-foudn-more-1947.html
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/02/on-lake-in-48-oh-wonder-and-amazement.html

The Dynaliner returned to SEMA, it is a thorough tribute to hot rodding... great details to admire all over

23.19 Gauges, Hot rods, SEMA 2011, speedometer No comments

check the spreader bar, it's a Ford wishbone! Now... that, that is very cool! The grill has 32 teeth

Bitching hood prop!

SCOT supercharger? I didn't get a close look, but I think so

I dig the speedometer 6 in one guage set, the cool steering wheel, the ashtray, the timing stopwatch, and the "Speed King" drum set gas pedal (posted that a couple years ago http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search?q=dynaliner)