Gone Hollywood

Glamour girl at the local park with a dream car realized - '56 Lincoln Premiere in Starmist White over Amethyst. When the photo was taken, it was an icon of an already superseded future and just the sort of extravagant foolishness the old timers in the sturdy Rambler next door had learned to live without. Kodachrome 35mm sli...

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Root Beer Injun Head

Part of a roadside 'Indian Village' complex that included a 50 foot tall teepee gas station and motor court of smaller teepee cabins on US 40 in Lawrence, Kans...

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Camarito

People personalize their cars in very personal ways, but this particular impulse is new to me. Seems that Hebron, Ohio's Manny Powell had a tricked out 454 big block that he wanted on permanent display, so he sawed a '69 Z28 shell into 29 pieces and went from there. Honey, I shrunk the Camaro. As for interior accommodations, try to imagine any of the guys on either side, inside. Read all about ...

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Thunderbowl Comet

Dan Strohl of Hemmings Blog kindly indentified this formidable machine as the Golden Eagle aka Thunderbowl Comet. Although the car's story varies from one teller to the next, it did at least portray a Muroc Dry Lake LSR contender in a Jimmy Stewart B-movie called Speed in 1936, turning up years later as opening act at the Carpenteria Thunderbowl, a quarter-mile dirt track near Santa Barbara, California. As Auto Puzzler editor Ray B. posted, "The...

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