Peterson Musuem current exhibits
http://www.petersen.org/default.cfm?docid=1001
California Design will only run through Feb 7, What Were They Thinking runs through July 5
For an online gallery: http://www.tachrev.com/Petersen.htm
Friday, 1 January 2010
Thursday, 31 December 2009
Doug Thorley mufflers, the Muffettes and The Super Muff QT (who would be interested without the double entendre and bikini model?)
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Doug Thorley Street and Show Tubes, proof that advertising is knowing your audience, using bikini models to sell exhaust systems to hot rodders
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Tuesday, 29 December 2009
Two stroke Pogo stick, and nitro roller skates, the most unusual things from the mind of Von Dutch
The above was first published in the Nov 1955 Hot Rod, but I don't have that one, and instead found it in the 25th anniversary issue of Hot Rod
Above image, and for more info go to: http://chopcult.com/news/blogs/von-dutch-monday-xiii12-21-09-22-06-02.htmlFor more of Von Dutch's inventive stuff, see: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2006/12/von-dutch-expert-mechanic.html
Polar explorers
above from http://lecontainer.blogspot.com/
Above image via: http://www.greyhandgang.com/
Above images http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=229248&showall=1 which stangely, I posted about years ago... and that thread on the Jalopy Journal is still being added to
Above: the 1939 Sno Cruiser
For more on the Tucker Sno-Cats: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/07/tucker-snow-cat-pioneering-vehicle-of.html
Above: the TerrabusFree PRoTO tool set by getting subscriptions to Hot Rod magazine, 1967
That tool box might look familiar, I just found one and posted a photo of it: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/11/professional-tools-which-were-plvmb.html
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