Showing posts with label Patina. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Patina. Show all posts

Friday, June 3, 2011

Runs of three














Interesting Buick dual quad in this 41 Studebaker, fantastic air cleaner housing

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Cool hot rods at Goodguys


I dig the out of proportion engine








Beautiful air filter chrome caps... just nails that show and shine idea
Nice steering wheel and presentation of the seat belts

I'm smailing over all the cool stuff on this above rod, the hub cap over the air filter housing, the horns in front of the radiator, and the dead end sign on the roof. Wow, way cool!




New York streetcars from decades ago, among the warehouses along the waterfront


notice the 150 year old (or so) warehouses that were built to last, and with full hurrucane shutters... amazing. The streetcars still have the power lines above them, and with so many open windows they surely won't last for asvmany more years as they've had, before the weather just detriorates them from the inside out. The last of their kind? Probably, can you imaging any others that were saved from scrap, allowed to keep their peice of track, and weren't buearacratically removed from public enjoyment? I suppose very very few people looking at them feel any nostalgia, and maybe I'm one of a handful that is glad they are still around just to look at.
Via an awesome website that focuses on New York City historical bits of architecture and history that is everywhere but seldom noticed, like gargoyes, statuary on buldings (even in Times Square) and is all noticed and posted by a wonderful writer who swears very well at the destruction of the cool old buildings that developers are quickly making disappear to be replaced with glass and steel nondescript high rise condos.
http://www.scoutingny.com/?p=12 has these street cars and his jaunt to a neighborhood called Red Hook, where the warehouses are great, and their is a perfect front view of the Statue of Liberty