Friday, January 28, 2011

Celica/Supra heaven

From Hooniverse...

"These are all from one dealer, St. Charles Toyota in St. Charles, Illinois. It seems that this particular dealer has a classic car department, and offers a few vintage Toyotas, so let’s explore what they have to offer."

Benny Spies

Benny Spies is absolutely ridiculous! His show "Gun It" is the best hunting show I've ever seen... It's on Versus.

Check out his page on Versus...

Conway Twitty + Colt 1911 = Awesome!

From Everyday No Days Off...

Sign that I'm not the world's greatest dad

If I was a decent father this is what my kid's tricycle would look like.

From Behind Bars, Inc.

Bad ass machine

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Restrepo

Saw this a few weeks ago on the NatGeo channel. It's an amazing documentary. Check out the website Restrepothemovie.com.

If you don't have a deep abiding respect and appreciation for those serving in our military before this film, you will have it after.

'27 T Spade Carillo Roadster

Found this on ScooterMcRad's Whatchaworks. I dunno much about it other than it's freakin' cool.

My new favorite quote...

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out...

-Hunter S. Thompson

Thanks to The Best iPhone Photographer in The World...


The Dexateens

Once upon a time - about 3 months ago - these guys were my favorite band. Now I'm bitter and jaded by their break-up.

We Have Signal: Dexateens from We Have Signal on Vimeo.

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Minority vs. Majority

“Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion...”

–Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

Townes Van Zandt

From Town Panel (see the previous post) to Townes Van Zandt. Saw this article on SelvedgeYard...

"You gotta move or you're just waitin' around to die."
-Townes Van Zandt




Here he is singing my all time favorite "Dead Flowers."

1964 D100 Power Wagon Town Panel

From Hooniverse.com. No matter what "Pocolypse" occurs, this is the right vehicle to have to survive it...

Monday, January 24, 2011

Steel 1928 Ford Roadster - For Sale

From BaT and the H.A.M.B.- this thing is effin' sa-weet! I even like the flat-head...

365 Days of A

Found this blog - it's about a guy, Jonathan Klinger, who's gonna drive a 1930 Ford Model A for an entire year. He's using the antique Ford as a daily drive. 365 Days of A.



Friday, January 21, 2011

More pallet/small house designs

From TinyFreeHouse.com.




These concepts seem to be some college kids' ideas on saving the world. Their statements are too anti-capitalism for me - but I can respect a cool design. From TinyHouseDesign.com.




More college kids with "Save the Planet" ideas. These guys are more environmental than socialist. From some architecture students at Texas Tech. From JetsonGreen.com.

The Pallet King of Guémené - Wherever that is...

Another one of my obsessions has been using old pallets as a viable - and aesthetically pleasing - building material. I've never seen anything that looked nice, really nice, until this guy...

Read more at www.loireatlantique.co.uk.

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

This video is awesome! It proves a few simple tools, patience and an ass-load of practice, you can do amazing things to sheet metal. The website where you can buy it is www.metalshapingzone.com.

I originally found this on ScooterMcRad's Whatchaworks.

Monday, January 17, 2011

Biltz Motorcycles - 1963 BMW R60

Found this bike at Just Jordan. Then checked out the makers, Blitz Motorcycles...

Haddon Sundblom

Saw an article about this guy on Today's Inspiration and thought I'd post this detail of one of his paintings... I wish I had the skills to do it like this.

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Lakes Speedster

Found this about 2 years ago and have been obsessin' about it ever since...

More photos from the original article on Jalopnik

Norman Timbs 1948 Buick Streamliner

You can read the full story with more picts at SuperCars.net