I'm blown away by this level of craftsmanship, and versatility

ONE-OF-A-KIND PEDAL CARS RAISING FUNDS FOR CHARITY

As part of the Ford anniversary marking the 75th Anniversary of the 32 Ford, ten icons (Bobby Alloway, Roy Brizio, Boyd Coddington, Pete Chapouris, Jesse Greening, Steve Moal, Rolling Bones, Thom Taylor and Troy Trepanier) made pedal car versions of their personal style of a 32.

http://www.streetrodderweb.com/editorial/0608sr_2006_august_for_starters_editorial/index.html
and look through the June 2011 issue of Streetrodder magazine, pages 196-208. So amazing.

http://www.fordpedalcars.com/HRHGateway.html

Some of the cool touches these guys and companies put on the pedal cars, take you right past the notion that you are looking at a kids plaything. Louvered hood, cyclops air induction, big and littles, working gauges, working lights, a triplet of carb tubes through the hood, scallops, stance, mini Moon Eyes discs, upholstery, custom rims, custom hub caps... nothing is off the shelf.

Everything that was made to suit the design taste and aesthetic of the individual car customizer is a one off, right off the work bench (or maybe 4 at a time for the rolling stock) but just amazing for the context that these guys do not work on this miniature scale.

Von Dutch, great artist

Conceptually genius. "The Square Rainbow"
Notice the round object suggests Von Dutch's signature eyeball, the dollar sign - his disgust of money.
Sold at a price of $34,500 at Auction May 2006 by RM Auctions, as part of the Brucker collection.
24 x 30"

From the plaid emerges a ghosted image of an eyeball along with a small conical shape, which occupies the lower left hand corner of the painting. Painted in the left side of the eye is an unmistakable dollar sign, the presence of which is by all accounts best described by Dutch himself in a conversation with Temma Kramer, the painting meant, “Money is a square person’s idea of what is at the end of the rainbow.”

It is widely thought that Von Dutch placed a piece of cardboard or wood on the wall and whenever he was using the last of the paint in his spray gun he would “tape off” parts of the painting and spray the piece with another color.

http://www.rmauctions.com/AuctionResults.cfm?SaleCode=BC06&SortBy=LN&View=Normal&Category=Memorabilia#

http://www.liveauctioneers.com/catalog/9500/page3 will show you a lot of other things he made, and other paintings he did. Others followed, but he broke trail and wrote the book.

Von Dutch, expert mechanic

These first 5 images are from http://www.arielmotorcycles.com/vond.htm

above and below from http://showandgo.blogspot.com/2009/10/von-dutch-engine-designs.html

the next three I've had since before I kept track of the sources of images

Good motorsports art

http://www.driversroad.com/artwork.html as seen in the April 2008 Hemmings Muscle Machines speedobilia section

http://www.kineticnet.net/roger/art.html

If you've got parts laying around... do something with them!

This is great! Via http://thenewcaferacersociety.blogspot.com/ comes this art piece, save yourself 1500 bucks, make your own
The Tank Dog (22x31x26) is one in the series of steel found objects dogs by Los Angeles sculptor Bruce Gray

I didn't know Norm made beer steins and shifter skulls!

Images are copywrite Dave Lindsey of http://socalcarculture.com/ and are from a gallery he took of the Brucker collection, for the full gallery see: http://public.fotki.com/wackydave/car_shows/car_shows_2006/the_brucker_collect/

Check out a gallery of Norm's wood carved stuff right here: http://drawnandquarrtered.blogspot.com/2009/01/norm-grabowski.html

and I got a great laugh from the guy who puts this website out, he wrote in a post " if you're a gearhead and don't have a clue who this man is or was.....turn in your socket set."

Now THAT is funny!

Man and machine, single purpose, artist is Joe Petrali Marquette

From http://vintageblue.co.jp/shop/detail.php?pr=541 via: http://thenewcaferacersociety.blogspot.com/

The unusual car zodiac of Francois Dallegret from those strange 1960's

These are hanging in the San Diego Auto Museum in Balboa Park in the library (South side wall inside the museum)

Born in Morroco in Sept 1938, Francois became an architectural student. His draftsmanship is the predominent feature of this series of motorcars he concieved and designed to suit the personalities of those people born under the twelve Zodiac signs. His work was primarily in the 1958-1969 years, and very little is on the internet about him.

The link at the end of this post has a lot of photos of him and his type 57 Bugatti

http://www.arteria.ca/ui.html about half way down the left side there are two small paragraphs, the bottom one is Dessins Automobilismes Machinations click on Automobilismes for a very thourough gallery of more of the car art of Francois. It's amazing how much more there is, and it's all coded so I can't just right click and save and show it to you here.

Also a post from another blog here: http://meinekleinefabrik.blogspot.com/search?q=francois+dallegret

Cycling and posters, what is there not to love?

The above is the work of my favorite artist, Alphonse Mucha; Czechoslovakian who INVENTED art nouveau... the style of art you see in all 4 of these posters http://www.illusionsgallery.com/Mucha.html

Via: http://thenewcaferacersociety.blogspot.com/ another recommended awesome website