best automotive : 2012

Boots

it's very very rare to see women on motorcycles, even less common on crotch rockets, and I can remember every single beautiful woman on a cycle I've ever seen. There've been 3, and this one has the coolest fem boots.

4th Annual Touch a Truck

The 4th annual Touch A Truck fundraiser, which will take place from 10AM – 3PM on September 29, 2012 at Qualcomm Stadium.

The annual event is California’s largest kid-friendly car show – offering families a hands-on experience with the biggest, fastest and loudest motor vehicles that are guaranteed to make young hearts race.

The fun-filled extravaganza will also offer military displays, Sea World and Star Wars characters, slot car races, live music, food trucks, face painting and much more!

Touch A Truck (TAT) San Diego is presented by Max’s Ring of Fire, a local kids cancer fundraising and advocacy group, and 100 percent of the event proceeds will be used to support childhood cancer research and clinical trials

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/8/prweb9802773.htm

San Diego Touch A Truck 2012 Promo from Max's Ring of Fire

upcoming car shows in So Cal

Sept 1st and 2nd
Ventura Nationals
http://www.venturanationals.com/

Sept 8th
Kustom Kulture San Diego
Old Town
10 am 6pm
http://www.fiestadekustomkulture.com/

Sept 8th
Rat Rod Ratpalooza
Lake Las Vegas
8am
http://www.ratpalooza.com/

September 9th
Liberty Station car show (Old NTC) off Rosecrans or North Harbor Drive

September 16th
Palos Verdes Concours
the theme is French Cars of the 30's
Trump National Golf Club
Rancho Palos Verdes, California
(just south of the 110 405 merge)
http://www.pvconcours.org/

Sept 22nd
El Camino, west coast largest vintage bike show
El Camino Community College, Torrance
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2012/03/vintage-motorcyle-show-this-fall-in.html

Sept 22nd and 23rd
Speedfest San Diego
8am to 530 pm
http://www.fleetweeksandiego.org/events/speed-fest.html?utm_source=cooleremail&utm_medium=email&utm_content=3118&utm_campaign=184412

Sept 29th
Touch a Truck
Kid centric truck and car show for fundraising to stop cancer from getting kids
(Robosaurus will be there!)
and so will 15 food trucks
Qualcomm Stadium
http://www.TouchATruckSD.com
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/8/prweb9802773.htm

Oct 21st
Del Mar Concours de Elegance
www.DelMarConcours.com

Rat Rods are on a cruise from Minnesota to Vegas, starting Sept 2nd, and a car show in Vegas on Sept 8th

info from http://www.ratpalooza.com/

and the Rat Rod Magazine website is http://rat-rod.us/ where yes, you can subscribe for $30 in the USA, $50 outside the USA

Red Skull's car from the movie Captain America

found on http://steampunkvehicles.tumblr.com/page/23

Nudie Cohn (Nuta Kotlyarenko) customizer of Bonnevilles to the western movie stars

Stars of the then popular western movies were no exception to the taste for extravagance in rolling stock. Indeed, with many of them having added a film career to their stardom as singers or rodeo performers were well used to glitz and glamour in their garb and extremes in what they drove. And indeed in the case of one Nudie Cohn who first put rhinestones on cowboys it was the same designer who decorated cowboys who also slathered their vehicles with western iconography. Silver six-shooters might be door handles or gear shift levers and silver dollars were imbedded in leather upholstery. Kiddie seats were little saddles. (All pre-seat belts and car seats obviously.)

Nudie Cohn fled the anti-Semitism of the Ukraine as a pre-teen. A custom official in New York decreed that the shorter name was better for the lad's life in the new world than Nuta Kotlyarenko. He was probably right. Anyway, after wandering about the country, improving his English by going to western movies, Nudie ended up in the Hollywood area as a tailor and was soon turning his taste for westerns and an in-born imagination into fabulous costumes.

Cars caught his fancy and since a publicity-aware General Motors favored him with a free Pontiac Bonneville every year to "dress", his Nudie Mobiles became as famous as his suits, boots and hats.

Some seven or eight Nudie Mobiles may still be in running order. Certainly the best is one that Nudie presented to his friends and clients Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, two of the most popular country and western singers and "oater" stars ever. DeWayne Deck, a Denver business man with an eye for the unusual bought the car at a July 2010 auction when the Roy Rogers and Dale Evans museum closed its door in Branson, Mo. It was not that the stars had run out of fans so much as the fans had run out of mobility. The auction was a great success.

DeWayne Deck knew what he wanted and what he wanted to pay for it. He made one bid and the world's most dramatic Bonneville was his for a total of $254,500.

The Santa Fe Concorso tracked down the ex-Rogers and Evans car in Denver and invited its new owner to let it be one of three Cowboy Cars to be shown at the third edition of the Santa Fe Concorso. And thus its lane-wide steer horns mounted on the radiator will grace the greenery at the Club at Las Campanas Sept. 30.

But not all cowboys in those days equated glamour with glitz. Call it perhaps a taste for exaggerated elegance; Tom Mix was attracted to the 1937 Cord 812 Phaeton with its unique coffin-nose and buttery color. It was just one of three made that was outfitted similarly (an exterior tire mount in the back for instance.) Bob White of Scottsdale AZ acquired his elegant Cowboy Car at a 2010 auction and oversaw a meticulous frame-off restoration before showing it at Amelia Island Concours of 2012. Bill Warner, founder of that fine Florida event 15 years ago said of the car: "The 812 Cord is rare, technologically advanced and extraordinarily desirable."

above article from http://santafeconcorso.com/about.html

read more at http://mrkicks66.wordpress.com/2011/07/27/rhinestone-cowboy-nudie-cohn-pictures-new-western-cowboy-boot-tips-in-store/ which has more photos

Tom Cotter, author of the Barn Find book series, also

he is also the president of the Gran Prix of America organization. http://www.gpamerica.com/

Cool things on Steampunk Vehicles, as usual. Here are just a couple

for more http://steampunkvehicles.tumblr.com

only one is lazy and stupid, and unusual in their choice of transporation, it's not the Segway lady

Melissa is a 15-year cancer survivor who lost her left leg to the illness. She started using the Segway as an assistive device because it's both maneuverable and because she has difficulty walking, especially on hilly areas. It also allows her to be in the standing position and look people in the eyes during conversations, and be mobile in ways that wheelchairs are not. http://gizmodo.com/5602600/i-am-very-sorry-segway-stroller-lady

found on http://johnnypayphone.tumblr.com

Johnny Payphone Tumblr bicycles

the canvas bag and sidecar are easily removed and transformed.

all from http://johnnypayphone.tumblr.com

Steampunk East Tumblr has posted some great stuff...

above is a photoshop of a locomotive over the top of the tank... it's pretty good!

the Isabel

and yup, this is the first time I've posted a vacuum.

http://steampunkeast.tumblr.com for a lot more

the Turbonique Microturbo catalog has been posted

this is from http://www.freepistonjetengine.741.com/myfiles/turbonique/pages/catalog.html who insisted on putting a damn tag on every page so you'd appreciate that he was the jerk who got them uglier by putting his name one them. I hate that.

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