Clever Benz wagon collector has a rare bookend matched pair for car show displays, an ambulance and a hearse

I hope I'm not the only one to appreciate the humor of the owner and sign maker... I think it's pretty clever

The Navarro equipped 40 Ford and the Monocles caddy hearse at the Beatnick Blowout 2010

You might be unaware of what Barney Navarro accomplished, besides making great flatheads... for example, inventing a heart lung machine used at a hospital,
core drilling and concrete cutting equipment,
and a 700 hp 199 cu in Rambler twin turbo Indy engine.

read a short but illuminating bio here: http://www.navarroengineering.com/about_barney.html

Automotive pictures from Shorpy

Vanderbilt's Belmont Park four-in-hand passing the Holland House Hotel on Fifth Avenue in New York 1905

1917 Detroit

Traffic congestion at a 1918 war bond drive in Washington DC

This Winton was wrecked by Congressman never-heard-of-him-before, in 1920

1920 Washington DC

1924 photo of Lincoln hearse

1926 paint booth

1926 service station

1928 Takoma Park Maryland

This is a Cunningham automobile, and was used as a private ambulance by a coroner

1927 four wheel drive auto company dumptruck

1927 four wheel drive auto company Via: http://www.shorpy.com/ If you like this type of old car photos, look through the best vehicle photos from Shorpy that I've come across: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/Shorpy

Kargoyle... a Barris creation

http://www.barris.com/gallery_cars/Kustoms_HotRods/gallery_kargoyle.html
Built for the Playboy "Girls next Door" show