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Thursday, June 30, 2011

Those mad Englishmen, wondered what if Picasso had customized a Citreon 2cv

Via http://news.caradisiac.com/Citroen-Picasso-la-veritable-777 and http://www.autoblog.com/page/2/ and http://www.super2cv.com/

Friday, June 3, 2011

Finally found out what the story is on this custom

No idea where the first photo came from, the full side shot, but the bottom 3 and the full write up are here: http://rockindownthehighway.blogspot.com/2007/09/rockin-great-time-at-billetproof-07.html

It's a 1937 one of a kind made by a mechanic at the San Fransisco Chris Craft boatworks (they were a prominent luxury wood yacht company until they switched to fiberglass in the mid 60's), it was restored by customizer Art Himsl in '02.

Dubbed the Zeppelin by Art Himsl, it started out its life as a prototype house car built by a mechanic at the Chris-Craft boat dealership in San Francisco. A San Francisco doctor who had high hopes of manufacturing a number of them commissioned the vehicle, but World War II material shortages effectively ended his quest. Records show that it was registered in 1942 as a Plymouth house car.

Himsl discovered the vehicle in 1968 when he and his friend Ed Green saw the aft end of it sticking out of a barn in California’s Napa Valley. Himsl and Green used the vehicle for a few years as sort of an office, but they did not begin a serious restoration until 1999. The first order of business was to refurbish and modernize the drive components. Air-lift bags were added to all four corners, a 350 Chevy engine replaced the old flathead engine, and most of the old running gear was replaced. The original skin on the vehicle was a mixture of steel panels and stretched fabric. Himsl ripped off all the old skin and replaced it with a modern material Stitz Poly-Fiber. Fenders were replaced (the original vehicle did not have front fenders), the nose was reconstructed, and Himsl applied a spectacular finish in an Art Deco theme. The vehicle was rechristened in 2002 as the 1937 Himsl Zeppelin Roadliner.

Thursday, June 2, 2011

He's got the look, confident and cool, a hot rodder of talent and grit

Man Rides Cross of Car and Motorcycle
a cross between a Model T and motorcycle scrap parts, it can carry three persons. The whole thing cost only $18 and is the work of Gayle Lockhart.
Via: http://www.corbisimages.com/Enlargement/Enlargement.aspx?id=VV3180&ext=1&wdid=ceac4b9907e44a15b77fc2d954cd6ad5

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Among the "Don't Miss" attractions at the Grand National Roadster show, Atomic Punk

For more on the Atomic Punk, a cool video of it's creation http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/10/wow-how-atomic-punk-was-built-trunk-of.html

Number 5000

This is my 5000th post, and it took 38 months to post that many. I plan to go through the archives and recap my favorites, there have been some remarkable things I don't want to forget, and hope to encourage some of you to take a look back through some really cool stuff because I'm sure that nobody has looked through 3 years and 5000 posts.