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There’s a drag strip near my office. This gas station sells race gas, so sometimes I get to see ultra-cool shizzle like this on my way home from work.
Bitchin’ Camaro
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Late night hot rod
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Gigs are always better when your drummer’s dad brings out his ’48 Chevrolet hot rod.
Homemade
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My brother was pulling the clutch on the Chevelle. That little piece of metal with the teeth and the read paint on it is a tool he made so he could remove the flywheel. It took maybe ten minutes to make the tool, but that was SO much easier than when we tried to do it previously without one. Sometimes the littlest things make a big difference.
Keep trying
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Here are some more efforts from me on the caricature “monster car” drawing style that was typical of shirt and decal designs of the sixties and seventies. To the left you can see a couple of examples of the sort of thing I’m aiming toward. This stuff was first popularly made known by a guy named Ed Roth, although it had been going on in one form or another for a few years prior. Roth was the guy that put it out in the public eye on a wide scale. Later on Roth concentrated on building his crazy show car creations like the Mysterion, and he left the shirt design in the capable hands of guys like Ed Newton.
I’ve always enjoyed art like that, but never figured I could hack that. These days I don’t much care if I can be the best, at least not enough to stop me from at least trying to have some fun with it. These are pretty amateur efforts, but they are still fun, and it seems that the second and third drawings are slightly better than the first, so there may be hope for me yet. I may not be another Ed Newton, but maybe I can at least get to the point where someone looks at the picture and goes, “Cool…what kind of car is that supposed to be?”
The Golden Submarine
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Is it an airplane? A submarine? A tank??? WHAT IS IT?
I was very, very, VERY lucky to get this close to The Golden Submarine, which is not a submarine at all. Rather, it is a car, a very unusual and amazing automotive artistic achievement. I saw this car in a magazine a month ago. Never in my life would I have imagined that about thirty days later a woman would say to me, “You wanna know where the best photograph is on this car? Come around here to the back and lean up against it and look through the back window!”
No way. NO WAY! Not only did I get to see it up close, I got to (breathe deep here, steady…) LEAN ON IT!!!!
I took a nice collection of photos, but this one has the most “What IS that?!” going on with it, so I put it up for fun. If you would like to see some other photos and the story behind the car, go here. That’s right, I stood next to and against THAT!
Class Ride
Jeff has a '66 Ranchero. Jeff gives me a ride. Jeff earns my eternal gratitude.
Today I was hanging out with some friends and end up talking with a guy I’ve spoken to a handful of times over the past year or so. I didn’t know much about him except that he does auto body work and has a nice old Ford. Today while we’re talking he says a couple of things about art and I got, “So…you do art work?” He chuckles and says, “Um, yeah. I graduated from [noted art school].” He adds that he’s done some work for the governor and “this boat. I built a boat. It’s over by…” and he gave the general description off of a given highway. I couldn’t picture it, and he says, “You wanna to see it? I was just about to take off.” I agree, we go out to the car, and I realize that I’m going to get a ride in this:
1966 Ford Ranchero
I dig old cars. I dig old hot rods. This car is both (okay, it’s a truck and not a car, but whatever), and he drives it regularly. It has a 289, front disc brakes, and a 5spd manual transmission, plus the uber-groovy Torque Thrust mags. It was awesome. He drove me out to the site where his sculpture is located, and we checked it out. It’s a boat in a water runoff area. The height of the water in relation to the boat is sort of a measure of how well the area is functioning, plus it makes a statement about the intended use of the area and its necessity (the area was formerly just a dumping ground for trash). I would have a pic of that, but the weather was too bad to get a good shot of it.
Anyway, pic a day for today resulted in two pics, but I figured you would’t mind, ’cause that truck is just so cool.