November 2012 ~ car and motor

Friday, November 30, 2012

Hurricane Sandy aftermath as it relates to collector cars

10:38 PM car insurance, Hagerty's, insurance No comments

http://www.hagerty.com/classic-car-articles-resources/Features/News has several articles and videos regarding hurricane preparations you can make to save your collector cars, tools, spare parts, etc.

I hope all of you are safe, your things are insured, and your health is intact.

few prototypes and concept cars are coming up in emails that I haven't seen before, but Randy found one with some previously that I had never seen

10:11 PM Cadillac, carrozzeria, coach builders, concept, concept car, design, Ghia, Lincoln, prototype, steering wheel, unusual No comments

coincidentally this 1948 Cadillac Series 62 by Soutchik was just the car in a 2012 calendar that a coworker has... and I was going to look it up. Now I don't need to!

this car was in the Imperial Casino car collection/ museum http://vizlepcso.blogspot.hu/2008/07/auto-collections-tizenhatodik-rsz.html

1953 Cadillac by Ghia... the Rita Hayworth car
it has an interesting history http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/03/1953-cadillac-series-62-rebodied-by.html and the color in daylight is closer to purple.

1955 Lincoln Indianapolis

1956 Oldsmobile Golden Rocket had an interesting design for a steering wheel. the spokes are at one side. Looks like maybe the speedometer was in the center of the steering wheel too... imagine how far that steering wheel would roll up toward the roof

1957 Chrysler Diablo by Ghia

The car, and the competition... the Better Off Dead 1967 Camaro

9:20 PM Falcon, movie, Station Wagon, street racing No comments

a funny situation in the movie Better Off Dead that I forgot about until I rewatched it just now to see the Camaro, was the rivalry between John Cusack's character Lane Meyer, and the two brothers in the Falcon. Every time that Lane came to a stop light, these brothers were waiting and goading him to a drag race. The driver didn't speak English, and the passenger learned from Wide World of Sports by listening to Howard Cosell. So he grabs a CB microphone and speaks over a PA system mounted to the Falcon roof.

Lane is driving a station wagon because early in the movie his Camaro doesn't run

The station wagon loses. A lot.

Then the cute girl across the street decides to help out our hero in need

And now the dashing young hero wins. Good movie, 1985 wholesome teenage highschool goodness.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088794/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

And that damn newspaper kid that wants his two dollars:

I first posted about the Camaro 5 years ago when I learned that it had been found and restored. http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2007/07/camaro-from-better-off-dead-found-and.html

the owners website is http://www.betteroffdeadcamaro.com/

the hot rod that cushioned the helicopter crash in the Green Lantern

9:05 PM Hollywood, Hot rods, movie No comments

A thing others won't understand, like the 1970's van craze, extended front fork choppers of the late 60's, and other trends that come and go... this is Bosozoku. In Japan

8:51 PM humor, unusual No comments

The hoods are flatter than usual, overhang the grill most of the time, running boards added, fenders and quarterpanels are widened and flattened, and the exhaust gets extravagant pipes... really tall ones. I'm happy to see something new emerge, it brings a new interesting thing to look at. Nothing wrong with that

A couple of articles with more images http://logiccsu.wordpress.com/2012/08/25/a-guide-to-japanese-car-culture-bosozoku/

http://www.driftkulture.com/?p=2383