Scratch built 45cc V8 with Megasquirt MS2 fuel injection.made in the shed with an old manual Bridgeport mill and a 95 year old lathe. Single fuel injector made from Punto injector internals. Pressurised oil system, drilled crank, alloy block, cast iron wet liners, vernier cam pulleys, Walbro fuel pump, tungsten alloy flywheel, bead blasted and anodised finish, throttle pos sensor on butterfly shaft, 24tooth trigger wheel for megasquirt.

How to buy a Porsche 356.

The Design Museum Holon shows works of designer, architect and artist Ron Arad, including vintage Fiat 500s squashed to a cartoonlike flatness by a huge, 500-ton press. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443855804577601541080818500.html#articleTabs%3Dinteractive

Swiss winter scene depicting Hispano Suiza J12.

John Bull Tyres promotional art. Alfa Romeo?

Fair to say that this 1920s Packard was totaled.

Rolls-Royce’s magical mystery tour with the Beatles. A fan took this photo with John Lennon's colorful Rolls-Royce, which traveled with the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan before parking in museums.
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7. If we didn’t know better, we’d think this fanciful ride (above) was plucked straight out of a cartoon and plopped down at the curb of an average street.

That’s Barbara Colavito of Yonkers, New York, leaning against John Lennon’s ’65 Rolls-Royce Phantom V touring limousine, which she explains was parked for a short time on 71st Street in Queens, New York, in front of the Beatles’ chauffeur’s home.

“My father lived across the street, and one day my husband, Tony, and I captured some keepsake pictures,” says Barbara. “It certainly caused a lot of conversation.”

When delivered to Lennon in 1965, the Rolls had a black finish; he commissioned the colorful designs for the paint job in ’67. The Beatles used the car frequently from 1966 to ’69, and it’s been reported that a woman in London actually attacked it with her umbrella, shouting, “You swine, how dare you do this to a Rolls-Royce?”

News reports indicate that Lennon and Yoko Ono didn’t ship the car to the United States until 1970, but Barbara still insists that her photo was taken in November ’68.

Seldom used after its heyday, the car was loaned out to the likes of the Rolling Stones, the Moody Blues and Bob Dylan.

In trouble with the Internal Revenue Service in 1977, Lennon agreed to donate the Rolls to what is now the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York for a $225,000 tax credit. In 1985, the museum auctioned off the car through Sotheby’s. Expected to go for $200,000 to $300,000, the Phantom V brought a stunning $2,299,000 from Jim Pattison for exhibition in his Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! museum.

In 1987, Pattison presented the Rolls-Royce as a gift to the Canadian province of British Columbia, where it has been displayed in various exhibitions and museums.

Since 1993, its main home has been the Royal British Columbia Museum in Victoria.

Battleship painted on truck.

Early image woman and race car circa 1910.

Boris Bally D.O.T. Coaster (set of six)
HUMANUFACTURED (hand-fabricated, pierced,brake-formed and finished) from re-used traffic signs, champagne corks and stainless steel hardware.

Each one is for-sale-by-order and one-of-a-kind.

"Senior citizen drop-outs" 1965 Jack Benny and Bob Hope get Hip with the Beach Boys, and their surfing lifestyle.

How Scalextric slot cars are made.

Yes, this is actually a scale model. Incredible build effort. Anyone know the modeler?

Buster Keaton was not the only comedian to film on the west end of Hollywood Boulevard. These frames to the left and below come from Harold Lloyd’s Girl Shy (1924), Why Worry? (1923), and I Do (1921). The H.P. Rehbein Richfield gas station on the corner of Sycamore was later replaced by the multi-story Rehbein office building in 1925. Buster ran west past the Rehbein office building, while wearing a red devil suit, during the cattle stampede in his later comedy Go West (1925).

The same H. P. Rehbein Richfield gas station billboard appears in Girl Shy (left) and in Why Worry ? (right).

Very rare original Stutz winged style enamel radiator badge emblem insignia nameplate. The Stutz was built from 1911 to 1935 in Indianapolis, IN and was famous due to the success of early racing cars and its Bearcat speedster model. I assume this is from the teens or 20s but I do not know exact year, model or application for the emblem. Badges like these were made using the champleve or guilloche process of heat bonding melted glass to a copper base which was then plated. 3 1/8" wide by 2 1/4" high, originally red, blue and white enamel with nickel plating. No maker's mark visible. Fair used condition, mostly straight but has shallow raised areas in center and a few scratches. Almost all original enamel is gone with only a little of the blue and white remaining. All original plating is gone with the base metal layer exposed. Original mounting cup is gone. This emblem is very hard to find and its rarity makes it a good candidate for restoration and a great addition to your collection.

I'm a big fan of Bring A Trailer including their logo stuff like this t-shirt, $24.00.

Into garages and workshops?

1963 promotional image for the famous split-window Corvette.

Ran across these images of Harry Horenstein of grassroots racing in the seventies. Great stuff!

The 8HP motor and transmission from a riding lawn mower is a little bit more than is normally installed in these. A few years ago the Mustang Club in Colorado took a bunch of my reproduction parts and built this Mustang JR as part of a raffle for wounded warriors.

If Norman Rockwell did car scenes, this would be one of them!

This photo is of me refueling my Dad's '65 Eldorado at Five Points Atlantic in Norristown, PA. in 1967. Atlantic Imperial sold for 37.9 when this picture was taken.

The famous Las Vegas Stardust loungs and a sea of cars.

Back when coachwork meant something!

Car commercials from the 1950 and 1960s. Chevrolet, Ford, Buick, Esso.

Among the greatest automotive ad campaigns of all time featured the Jordan company and their landmark depictions of thrill and romance. "Somewhere West of Laramie" became a slogan for adventure and conquest and boosted sales of the relatively stodgy Jordan cars into a symbol of the high spirit of life.

Scene from Hawaii Five-O and rare even by American standards, the Toyota 2000 GT. A recent auction sale confirmed their elevated status: five hundred large!

Iconic 1970 ad for the Plymouth Road Runner, the company's base model bad ass street ripper. Its horn was modeled after the cartoon character Coyote.

Road map art featuring Brownie Kodak camera, art by Scott Moore.

Very rare 1956 Tidewater Oil Company road map, Washington DC.

Early NY street sign W.135 St.

Back cover of Hot Tuna's third album Burgers from 1972. Bassist Jack Casady and guitarist Jorma Kaukonen formed the blues-based band as their former group Jefferson Airplane descended into pop fantasy. And the car is??

A vintage sticker for application on what?