1953 Nash Ambassador Country Club Coupe.

Name that car!

Stout at the 2013 Elegance at Hershey For more events, shows, rallies, cruises, etc visit your regional calendar of events, www.NortheastWheelsEvents.com

1936 Cord hood, Hudson trunk lid, model A fenders, 39 Plymouth rear fenders chopped, Auburn bobtail cockpit prototype, antiques galore,call it the fun car,brings a smile to everyone who sees it, runs 55 mph with the top up, comes with trailer, currant reg and title in hand $8,800. 775-690-4555

Up for sale is a 1990 Western Elegante from the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic golf tournament. Built on the tried and true EZ-GO chassis this 4 seater comes fully loaded with windshield, Sand & seed holders, Stereo, Turn indicators, headlights/brake lights, Dash tray, Custom upholstery & headliner plus much more. Charger included. Cart is 42 volts and can be made street legal. Was kept in storage so it saw very little use. Tires are good no dry rot. Cart WILL NEED BATTERIES. New battery cables are included in the sale and new or used can be installed for the buyer at extra charge. They where removed before it went into storage. No corrosion in battery compartment. Changed rear diff. fluid and serviced entire cart. Can deliver cart within the Coachella Vally for free, Out of town will deliver for a reasonable fee. Located in Rancho Mirage. Please call or txt 760-five six seven-three two two three if you`d like to take a look. Rare hard to find cart in this condition.

Guess this poweplant?

Dear Top Gear, Please Hire This Woman's 'Genius Level' Nephew!

Skyway to the Timberline.

What is this??

Steampunk motorcycle

In 1972 John Dodd put a 27 litre Merlin aircraft engine on a Rolls Royce chassis. Rolls Royce sued him for using their radiator grille on the car without their specific permission. So he made his own. The car was completely road legal but lacked power steering. O-200mph in 5 second was described as "having someone grab the horizon and pull it under you" Top speed was a MEASURED 260mph

The Amazing Gas-O-Car – A Stylish Mobile Filling Station: The Sinclair Oil & Refining Corp. had Kastory Motor Body Company custom build this enclosed gasoline dispensing body on a White Truck chassis in 1926. The back of the creation carried a platform which, in turn, held two visible glass-cylinder gasoline pumps along with an air hose used for inflating tires. See more photos of this incredible truck and learn all the details @ http://theoldmotor.com/?p=100745

I know this isn't a car, but have you ever seen anything is bad ass as this?

A Cadillac dealer in Amarillo, TX offered this Cadillac El Deora in 1976.

I don't like camping out... until now.

1939 Super Sonic. Lance Lambert talks to Earl Rubenstein at the Automobile Driving Museum in El Segundo, CA about this unusual, one-of-a-kind vehicle. This is a short segment from a longer episode of The Vintage Vehicle Show.

Snowmobile on steroids! Bill Ruger collection.

In this month's Back Bumper Section, we are going to try our best to make sure the back bumper doesn't fall off altogether, as we feature an aggressive hopper from the Maniacos Car Club. We are proud to bring you Johnny Rodriguez' single-pump hopper, an '83 Chevy Malibu Wagon, that hits for over 75 inches! The road for this hopper has been a long one, and you can be sure that it has seen its share of ups and downs (no pun intended) along the way.

The wagon was purchased by Johnny's older brother as a project car back in '99, but it ended up just collecting dust in the backyard. After seeing the lonely car sit for a few years, Johnny purchased the wagon from his brother, and was determined to make something out of it. Unfortunately, the timing wasn't right for Johnny to begin work on the Chevy, so the wagon was moved from one backyard to another, resting in his backyard until '05. That year, Johnny decided to rebuild the wagon, and take it to the streets!

The '83 wagon was delivered to Low Life Hydraulics, located in Inglewood, CA. The team at Low Life hydraulics took the stock frame and fully reinforced it, looking to better enable the car to withstand the gas hopping abuse, asphalt slamming, and back bumper checking that it would surely endure. The body and frame were painted to match, while Curly from Paramount, CA added the final touch of adding custom pinstripping and Silver leafing. Now that the car was fortified, it was ready to receive its hydraulics.




Johnny wanted a single pump set up, as he needed something that could compete with the big boys out on the street. The single pump set-up he installed includes 6-inch cylinders in the front, and 22-inch cylinders in the rear, with 3 1/2 ton springs all around, which are accompanied by 3 Adex Dumps, powered by eight batteries. A four-switch rig was also installed to give Johnny a convenient and effective way to control the car's movements. The wagon was finished in '09, and was ready to battle it out at the Majestic's Picnic on New Year's Day, where it took home second place. Always eager to gas hop, Johnny and the wagon have been battling and taking names out on the streets without any problems!

Johnny would like to extend his thanks to his family, the Maniacos Car Club, as well as Rick and Challo, for being his constant support system throughout the years. This hopper is a formidable opponent, so if you are ready to go head-to-head with Johnny's '83 Chevy Malibu Wagon, make sure you are ready to bring some up & downs!

If you have a hydraulics setup that hits back bumper or is making you "go for broke," email some images along with basic information to: saul.vargas@sorc.com



Read more: http://www.lowridermagazine.com/features/1005_lrmp_1983_chevrolet_malibu_wagon/#ixzz2PRX3xuGd

An older gent in my hometown drove a black Checker Marathon... it kept garage company with a 1970 Corvette 427 and 1957 Jaguar XK 140.

Great soundtrack to Mini car prototype from the 50s: the Peardrop.

Futuristic prototype vehicle from the 50s built by Marmon Herrington, the Rhino.

Everyone knows that Scottish people are the most creative in the world (Alexander Graham Bell, James Watt, Thomas Telford…more here). Naturally, you might assume that those in Nova Scotia are also quite creative and, judging from the students at Dalhousie University in Halifax, this would appear to be the case.

Clever students from Dalhousie invented this wheel with grass growing on the inside. It enables one to walk on grass around the city in bare feet, while simultaneously avoiding (compressing) nasty things like dog doodoo and small children. Well done guys!

Wicker interior and dash of a 1970 Fiat Shellette, successor to the open Fiat Jolly. This one is based on a Fiat 850, and was styled by Michelotti. This one was used as an everyday driver by a Beverly Hills woman who donated it to the museum when, I'm guessing, she got tired of wicker marks on her thighs?

Sir Vival was designed by WC Jerome (an inventor Massashussets) to be the safest car in the world.
He realized his car with a 1947 Hudson for the back and Nash 1948 for the front.
The idea of ​​this car really strange split into two separate part was designed to absorb shocks caused by collisons front, in fact, the front part being rugged interior protects the rear or is the passenger and driver. When the turret windshield provides 360 ° vision of safer and squeegees 360 ° vertical rotations are offices wiper without disturbing the driver.

The car is a 1952 Haller Taifun (translates "typhoon") and is Porsche powered.

Another in a series of "floating" cars.

A common issue faced by EV owners

Surf Scooters were a California craze following the success of the drive-in movie in which they first appeared. To meet demand, a few were made by the Baby Bonk factory before the design was licenced to the Harley-Davidson company. When Barry Bonk left on his 'voyage of self-discovery', he rode a Harley Surf Scooter east from California across the desert.

Arthur Gibson ascends Llysdinam HIll in GN.

Daniel Simon is the designer the car industry couldn't constrain. Formerly at VW, with work at Bugatti also under his belt, the guy's imagination was simply too vast to be stuck doing door handles or dashboards. Galactically vast, you could say, if you've ever checked out the brilliant work on his Cosmic Motors website, which posits an automotive future full of radical visual remixes of Porsche 917s, Can-Am McLarens and more. With girls. When Hollywood came calling, Simon put his stunning visual imagination to work on the vehicles in Tron: Legacy - TopGear.com interviewed him the week before the film was released - before being hired to design the villain's vehicles in Captain America. Simon has just re-rendered one of those - the almost psychedelically cool Schmidt Hydra V16 Coupe - in a beautiful HD quality short film, which you can watch here. We're huge fans of his work at TG.com, and we thought you'd appreciate it. "Joe Johnston, who directed Captain America, is a huge car fanatic himself," Simon tells us on the phone from his Los Angeles office, "but I was worried that he thought that my work was maybe too futuristic or stylised. But he hired me. The film is set in 1942 and the main villain, Schmidt, has this fanatical vision for the future. So my brief was to dream up something that would have seemed wildly futuristic, but in 1942..." The result is an awesome steam-punk mash-up of Auto Union Type C and Avus stream-liner, Mercedes 540K, pre-war Bentleys, and the half-track Mercedes G4 staff car favoured by Hitler and his goons in the Wehrmacht. "We started off looking at the Excalibur [awful ersatz '70s US 540K replica]," Simon says, "but there was just no evil there. The car had to be bigger, and more menacing. So I scaled up one of our designs, and found myself in the parking lot measuring truck wheels and tyres. Which was when I realised this thing was definitely going to be truck-based." With its 10 wheels and 7.62m length, the Hydra Coupe almost steals the film, though the real thing - which was built on a truck chassis - had a dragster engine but no suspension. As ever with Simon's work, the surfacing is astoundingly real, and the quality of the film allows you to luxuriate in the detail in the car's submarine-inspired interior. "I wanted to show how much love and passion goes into movie production design," Simon says. "You're usually too busy to notice it because you'll be immersed in the story." It's also a teaser for Simon's next project, due to be unveiled in May 2013. ‘It's my own futuristic automotive franchise,' he says mysteriously. ‘There'll be a book first, and it features all my usual obsessions - speed, racing, heroism...' More news on that when we get it.

New hybrid from the NObama administration.

Watch in amazement at this hilarious footage of Jimmy “The Flying Greek” Koufos, as he attempts to jump his 5.5 ton bus over 20 motorcycles as part of the pre show hype at a NASCAR Busch race in 1980.

When being interviewed, Jimmy explains he had a physicist help work out the maths to safely complete the jump. He later reveals that the physicist is in fact his father in-law. Jimmy explains ” I hope my father in law loves me as he figured all this out for me.”

Guest commentator and NASCAR legend Cale Yarborough says what everyone else at the track must have been thinking. ” I’ll tell you the truth. I wouldn’t get out of the electric chair to get in that bus right now”

The first "Weinermobile" in 1936 by Oscar Mayer's nephew, Carl G. Mayer, and variants are still used by the Oscar Mayer company today. Drivers of the Wienermobiles are known as Hotdoggers and often hand out toy whistles shaped as replicas of the Wienermobile, known as Wienerwhistles.

National Geographic - Supercars: Pagani Huayra

Cars of Tomorrow featuring the revolutionary three-wheeled Davis. 1948.

When I first got my Spohn Palos home and got to digging into it and learning how it was built, I removed the interior door panels to find that original outside beltline level trim had been removed and the holes body soldered closed two paint jobs back. They were found the length of the car. But I had no trim - what to do?
Fellow owner Jim Scammell in Australia sent me photos of his car's original aluminum trim and dimensions. Nothing metal matched. However I found some chromed vinyl trim from Flex Chrome with the same profile and very close dimensions.
Today the trim got applied in anticipation of the Peteresen Museum display through 2013. Does a ton of good for the looks of the car! Don't you think?

Bamboo optional.

This was named the Geographic line of Trailers made in Medford, CA. It was dubbed the 1960 "Model X," the 24-foot trailer is believed to be the first fiberglass trailer ever built. This is the showroom model of only 5 that were ever built. The owner has been offered 50K for it and turned it down.

I have no idea but I'd like someone to tell me.

1960s "Rathman," but the motors look later, possibly snowmobile?

Recycling a bard hair day in GM's automotive history with, uh, a worse hair day.

Early three-wheel car, French.

Big wheel. What is the technology and origin?