10 December 2014
8 December 2014
5 December 2014
T.W.O. - Snatch it Baby by Kraus Motor Company
Photos: Kraus Motor Company
An award-winning chopper that has just a whiff of motocross style about it. Thats 'Snatch', built by Kraus Motor Company. A hand-built, bronze-coated frame, hand-built tank, a hybrid 91ci Harley Evo Shovel engine coupled to a Baker 6-speed 'box are highlights, but it is so much more than that.
Read here for for details on this beauty; it may be bronze-coated but it's pure gold to look at.
- Mr Fabulous
3 December 2014
1935 DeSoto Airflow Sedan - Farther Out
If you aren't familiar with this car, then let me tell you first off: it looked like this from the factory in the 1930's.
Its a Chrysler Airflow, (the DeSoto version, to be exact), built from 1934 to 1937. It was one of the first full-size American production cars to use the concept of streamlining to cut wind resistance. The unfortunate thing was that it was too much for the 1930's American car buying public and it was ultimately a huge commercial failure. But, Chrysler made a significant effort at a fundamental change in automotive design with the Airflow and the chain reaction was started; newer car designs took cues from the Airflow and suddenly what was the extreme was the mainstream. Truly, a car 10 years too early.
As I stated in the first paragraph, this slippery customer looks more or less how the factory intended; the real changes are all under the skin and in my opinion, only serve to enhance the exterior.
Drag your coefficient over to here for the lowdown.
- Amazosan
1 December 2014
28 November 2014
London, England, June 7, 1976
American actress Lindsay Wagner appears to hold a man in a Mini above her head during a visit to Britain to promote the television series The Bionic Woman. The car was actually hoisted by a care, which was out of sight of the camera.
26 November 2014
T.W.O. - 2007 Harley-Davidson Street Glide - Giving The Green Light
Apparently, its considered unlucky to paint a bike green, for reasons given in the link below. Well if you're going to meet your maker by riding this custom 2007 Harley Street Glide, I can think of worse ways to arrive at the Pearly Gates; revving that 103ci Twin Cam V-twin, causing all sorts of commotion. Mind you, I refuse to believe that a bike that looks this good could possibly attract any bad karma; maybe if you're that concerned about your welfare, you could just keep it and the lovely Amber Grace warm in your garage. Oh boy.
Go green, here.
- Amazosan
1966 Hot Rod Magazine Championship Drags, Riverside International Raceway
Photo: Fred Enke.
The Alan Green Chevrolet 1963 fastback altered-wheelbase Nova.
Under the aupices of race car builder Bill Thomas, fibreglass meets metal to create a trio of road racing or drag cars built from convertible Chevy IIs.
A stroked 327 with a Corvette rear end motivating a Nova around a road course sounds pretty cool, but Chevrolet killed the factory racing effort, so all of the cars found new homes and were repurposed specifically for the quarter mile.
The Alan Green Chevrolet 1963 fastback altered-wheelbase Nova.
Under the aupices of race car builder Bill Thomas, fibreglass meets metal to create a trio of road racing or drag cars built from convertible Chevy IIs.
A stroked 327 with a Corvette rear end motivating a Nova around a road course sounds pretty cool, but Chevrolet killed the factory racing effort, so all of the cars found new homes and were repurposed specifically for the quarter mile.
24 November 2014
Five. Hundred. Thousand.
Soooo.... I've just realised that we clicked over 500,000 views at the weekend.
Half a million views? Gosh, it was only January '14 that it was on 400,000 and Jan '13 that the 250,000 was racked up. Guess we must be doing something right.
A big thanks to all that have viewed the blog since its inception in January 2011, and rest assured, (looks at draft list) we're not going anywhere.
- Amazosan, Mr Fabulous. FVHK5K
Half a million views? Gosh, it was only January '14 that it was on 400,000 and Jan '13 that the 250,000 was racked up. Guess we must be doing something right.
A big thanks to all that have viewed the blog since its inception in January 2011, and rest assured, (looks at draft list) we're not going anywhere.
- Amazosan, Mr Fabulous. FVHK5K
19 November 2014
17 November 2014
14 November 2014
James Crosby’s 1956 Peterbilt Conventional - Duel Purpose
Do you remember that Peterbilt 379 truck we featured a while back? Well This is also a Peterbilt, in as much as Revenge is a Model T Ford. It makes perfect sense to use an America truck body; the likes of Kenworth's and Peterbilt's long bonnet models still have that look of a pre-war car, so the cabs lend theirselves well to building a freaky-deaky looking hot rod.
Now, you can't just slap a truck cab onto a car chassis and expect it to fit; the 1956 Peterbilt Conventional cab that James Crosby used as the basis for this rod was radically altered to fit it's new mount, but still retain the look of the truck; its like a mutant almalgam of Model T meets big rig, and I guarantee you won't see another one quite like it, although I hope the idea catches on. More on this truckulent rod here.
- Amazosan
NB and yes; the Peterbilt Conventional is the truck used to harass Dennis Weaver's character to near insanity in the film Duel:
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