Another shot from Super Cars On State Street, Harrisburg, PA For more events like this check out www.NortheastWheelsEvents.com

Super Cars On State Street, Harrisburg,PA For more event, photos and videos check out the event info site, www.NortheastWheelsEvents.com

1930 Marmon 34 Cloverleaf.

A rather poor imitation of the Popemobile!

No garage? No problem!

Arnold Schwarzenegger poses with his Hummer.

Check out the exhibition "She Who Tells a Story," women photographers from Iran and the Arab world at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts.

Maserati coupe. Can anyone identify the model and year?

Year: 1989 325i
Color: Lachssilber
Engine: Fully Rebuilt top to bottom M20 with custom Mtech Valve Cover
Trans: Fully Rebuilt 5 speed Transmission with New clutch Kit OE
PPG Paint with PPG clear New paint as of September 2012
Mtech2 factory Kit Installed
Fully Recovered 100% Leather Interior
IE Strut Bar
Eibach Sports Lowering Springs on Tokico Blue Struts/Shocks
Euro Grilles, Smiley headlights, & HID
Short Throw Kit with ZHP shift Knob
Braided Brake Lines and Slotted Brake Rotors
Ceram Coated Factory Headers and Catalytic Converters along with a Remus Exhaust at rear
All new Cooling lines, Fuel Lines, Airlines, Clips, Moldings, etc.
BMW Motorsports Panels, Mtech2 Steering Wheel, Euro Rear Lic. Plate Filler & BMW Floor Mats
ACS Wheels Centers Redone with Bright Silver & Lips Polished out- All 5 ACS Wheels Including the Spare.

Since it’s inception in 2011, the Chattanooga Cruise In (held at Coker Tire and Honest Charley Speed Shop headquarters in Chattanooga, Tennessee) has continued to grow. Earlier in 2013, the event reached an all-time high with nearly 1,000 cars in attendance. For the September event, a scheduling conflict would prevent it from reaching a new record, but 600 loyal cruisers came out to join the fun, despite the event being held on the same weekend as LS Fest and Shades of the Past.

As always, the Chattanooga Cruise In was packed with cool stuff, from lowdown hot rods to rowdy muscle cars. The event also had a special display from a local racing series, known as “Revive 275” a drag radial series held monthly at Brainerd Optimist Drag Strip. The 275 guys had a great showing, with turbo, supercharged and nitrous-assisted street cars in all shapes and sizes. Other notable fast cars in attendance consisted of a junkyard 5.3-powered 280z, a wedge-powered Road Runner and a seriously low ‘60s Corvette drag car. The Chattanooga Cruise In also had a couple of dragsters in attendance—one with a blown and injected Chevy engine up front and one with a Mopar engine in the rear.

As the Chattanooga Cruise In continues to grow, we’re digging it more and more! The abundance of drag cars at this particular event was ridiculously cool, so we can’t wait to see what’s in store next year.

Hit the link to check out Tommy Lee Byrd’s first gallery of photos from the September 2013 Chattanooga Cruise In. There’s a ton more to come!

I’m a huge fan of the Skyline with the ultimate for me being the 1970 Nissan Skyline GTR KGC10 like this one by JDM Legends. Here we have a 1970 Nissan Skyline 2000GT 2 dr, or commonly known as a KGC10 Skyline. It’s a stunning example of such a cool race car that has been prepared for track use but works just as well on the street. The car has a fully re-built 3.0 litre L series engine and comes with many great, and rare upgrades from Japan. The upgrades included the vintage style racing bucket seats, bolt in roll cage and performance suspension. If your in the market for buying a vintage JDM car then these guys are the ones to go to with a full vehicle inspection available online for you to see.

JDM Legends was founded in 2009 by Eric Bizek and Trey Cobb, who is also the owner/founder of the aftermarket tuning company Cobb Tuning. Born out of our passion for classic JDM cars, our goal is to improve knowledge and accessibility to these wonder pieces of history and machinery and assist in the enlightenment of the collector market of the true values this vehicles possess.

So what does JDM actually mean? Well it simply means Japanese Domestic Market.. and now you know.

1937 Delage D8-120 Van Vooren coupe. Super rare one-off featured at this year's Pebble Beach concours.

SCoT blower on flathead.

Nickey Chevrolet Buys the Famous Chuck Daigh Scarab

Volkswagen "Bubble" art print by Marcelo Schultz 8 x 10. $18. This website has a bunch of other neat motoring posters and artwork.

1935 illustration of Bendix products.

1957 Citroën DS 19 at the Triennale of Milan.

Motorists check out an Air Force KC-97 used as in flight plane refueling missions.

Soap box derby gone wild.

A small landmark of New York City architectural and automotive history disappeared recently, almost without notice. The theatrical auto showroom designed by Frank Lloyd Wright at 430 Park Avenue, at 56th Street, had displayed a number of European brands over the years, notably Mercedes-Benz from 1957 to 2012.
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In early April, the Wright interior was demolished by the owners of the building, Midwood Investment and Management and Oestreicher Properties. Debra Pickrel, a preservationist and co-author of “Frank Lloyd Wright in New York: The Plaza Years, 1954-1959” (Gibbs Smith, 2007) wrote about the showroom’s destruction in Metropolis magazine.

Born in Austria, Maximilian Hoffman immigrated to New York with the outbreak of World War II. In 1947, he established a firm to import little-known European brands to New York and the West Coast.

Hoffman first intended the showroom for Jaguars. Drawings from the Wright archives show a leaping Jaguar sculpture and planters. But by the time the showroom was completed, Jaguar had set up its own sales space. Instead, the Hoffman space was filled with a mix of cars, including Porsches, for which he was the official importer to the United States.

The first drawings for the showroom have pedestrians on Park Avenue looking into the space. A rotating turntable held three or four cars; a ramp behind it accommodated one or two more. That spiral anticipated the design of the Guggenheim Museum, which opened in 1959.

The showroom was never considered a major work. In 1966, the architecture critic of The New York Times, Ada Louise Huxtable, who died in January, referred to it as “cramped.”

But it was one of a handful of Wright buildings in the New York area, and its form has a definite place in key themes of Wright’s work, according to historians like David G. DeLong, professor emeritus of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania.

Part of Wright’s fee for the design work was two Mercedes-Benzes, according to Douglas Steiner, who has written extensively about the architect. Wright also designed a house for Hoffman in Rye, N.Y.

Almost alone, it seems, Mr. Hoffman saw a market for European luxury models in New York and Beverly Hills. Beginning in the late 1940s, he imported a wide range of brands, including Delahaye and Austin.

He was willing to take a chance on the former Third Reich’s people’s car, the Volkswagen, which eventually became a huge hit. He also offered the Jowett Jupiter, which was not.

Hoffman met Ferry Porsche, son of the company’s founder, in 1950 and began importing Porsches to New York. He often raced cars himself to publicize the brands. Hoffman was known for coming up with ideas for new models that would sell well in the United States, suggesting the series production of the Mercedes 300SL Gullwing and the Porsche Speedster to their respective manufacturers.

In 1958, Mercedes-Benz bought out Hoffman and remained in the Park Avenue space, through two renovations, until decamping last year for a larger showroom in a new dealership on Eleventh Avenue.

To students of Wright’s work, the showroom ramps recall larger designs. One was the never-built Gordon Strong Automobile Objective, a mountaintop tower imagined in 1924 for a wealthy client. It was to be a structure where cars would park at the culmination of a scenic drive in Maryland. The other is the Guggenheim Museum, which resembles the Automobile Objective tower flipped on its head.

Janet Halstead, executive director of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy, a Chicago-based group dedicated to preserving Wright’s work, said that after learning of the planned demolition last June from one of its members, her organization tried to have the city designate the showroom as a landmark.

“We have a network of members and professionals who informally monitor Wright buildings in their regions and in the media, and we often learn about situations through these ‘Wright watch’ participants,” she said. “They constitute a kind of early-warning system for risks to Wright buildings. We sent a formal request for evaluation to the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in August 2012.”

According to Matt Chaban of Crain’s New York Business, who reported on the events, on March 22 the commission called, and on March 25 sent a letter, informing the building owner that landmarking was under discussion.

On March 28, the owner applied to the city Buildings Department, a separate agency, for a demolition permit, which was granted. Demolition took place the next week.

“The Landmarks Commission was unaware that the space had been demolished until we had an eyewitness report that the space had been gutted,” Ms. Halstead said.

Calls and e-mails to the owners, Midwood Investment and Management and Oestreicher Properties, and to the building’s managers, were not returned.

The conservancy’s president, Larry Woodin, issued a statement reading in part, “It is very disappointing that the City of New York was not able to move quickly enough to prevent the demolition of this Wright space.”

Donna Boland, a spokeswoman for Mercedes-Benz, said the hope when Mercedes left was that the showroom would be leased to another car company. “We were shocked at the removal,” she said, “but had no say in it since we leased the space.”

IMAGE: The space, with a spiral ramp and turntable interior, was designed in 1954 for the pioneering auto importer Max Hoffman.

- PHIL PATTON

Shop dummy in WWII Germany. Dressed to kill.

Looks like the car Steve Prefontaine was killed in before the Olympics.

Tricked out BMW for the Cannonball.

Another crazy image from Auto Pstryk. Can anyone provide info on this image source?

This young Camaro gal is getting the right training.

Harry Miller designed and developed the most innovative and winning competition cars during The Golden Age of racing, the 1920s. His masterpiece was the 91 ci supercharged twin cam straight eight seen here. Miller, along with Duesenberg, dominated oval track racing including Indy and "the boards" running at engine speeds exceeding 9000 rpm on skinny tires, lousy brakes, and nothing more than cloth helmets for their noble drivers.

How to avoid tire wear.

Seventies dragster put out to pasture.

Dressed to impress, Ralph Lauren model with Aston Martin DB3S.

Karl Jongkind with the Adler near Longshut, Germany post WWII — with Karl Jongkind ("Charly").

Abbey Road with The... Beetles.

Now this takes balls: one driver and two Harleys.

Who made this wild version of a tractor trailer??

The legend in the early days, Caroll Shelby.

Dan Gurney in GT40. All all-American hero.

Somebody save this once righteous ride!

Richard Petty storms the track in his Dodge Challenger.

Great shot of 1963 Ford Galaxie dashboard.

intersection of Sepulveda Blvd. and Slauson Ave in LA.

It's been a while since I've read the Bible, but I'm preeeeettttyy sure this is how Noah's Ark happened.

JFK visiting friend Peter Lawford's Florida home late 1961. Lincoln and Desoto?

“Clothes and the Car..At the Theatre”, photo by Cecil Beaton for Vogue, 1927.

Indy 500 is the greatest. Period, end of report.

Read it and weep.

1939 Plymouth business coupe. One of the great under appreciated gems of the prewar era. Cozy seating for two and enough grunt to move down the road. Nothing special but that's what makes it special.

1952 French Salmson type S4E with coachbuilt body by Henri Esclassan from Boulogne (near Paris, France) to show you that others were also fascinated by the GM /Harley Earl /Le Sabre show car. The Salmson chassis is a 4 cylinder motor car. This is placed in the '47 Buick album because of the similarity to the Staranick Spohn Custom. This car however uses production Cadillac tail lights of 1952.

says it all!

Sunset Blvd. early 1940s. Looks like a 1941 Cadillac 60 Special in foreground.

George Clooney and Austin Healey Sprite. Who's the gal?

Lovely lass on Vespa.

James Dean tries out Ferrari at club race outing.

Evolution of the Jaguar XK series 120-150. Originally published in Profile #4, illustration by A.S. Murray, 1966.

When rear facing seats and tailgates had a useful purpose. 1964 Ford Galaxie 500 station wagon.

Claus Miller (Munich, Germany) with me in the photo taken at a Sarasota Cafe Racers lunch and with one of his vintage Ford historic racecars. He's interested in starting a Cafe Racers satellite in Munich.

A roadster with Duvall style Vee windshield.

Early race car with what appears an aero V8 engine air cooled. Exposed valve train.

This had to hurt, but what artistry!

Jean Behra, a short, stout Frenchman hired by Ferrari for the 1959 season became paranoid and surly as he strained to meet Ferrari’s expectations. At 38, he had survived a dozen crashes. His body was laced with scars. A French magazine published a full-page photograph of him with a dense display of arrows identifying his broken bones. A collision three years earlier had torn off his right ear. Behra endured it all with a Gallic shrug. “Only those who do not move do not die,” he said. “But are they not already dead?” - Michael Cannell, The Limit.

Sophia Loren and Gullwing.

A sight for sore eyes. Where can I purchase a poster of this?

Excuse me Sir, may I have some more?

Renault and lovely poser.

Have you been a naughty boy?

Benny Shoal, Indy driver in supercharged Duesenberg 1928.

two hot rod betties drove from texas to visit Barris Kustom City in Lynwood CA... George took this pic.. one of my favorites.

Now this is awesome!!

Interesting to compare the original 'Automobiles emerging from the Holland Tunnel, Manhattan, New York, 1927' photograph to the colorized postcard illustration. A historic 'Spot the difference.'

Movie star good looks with track skills to match. Jim Clark appeared at the 1968 NZ Grand Prix and the Levin International the week after, in the Lotus 49T in traditional Team Lotus colours. It was in the week between Levin and Wigram that the deal was done with the tobacco company back in the UK and for Wigram the Lotus appeared in these new colours that, frankly, the world at the time did not understand. "It made the Lotus look like a Indianapolis car". Clark won at Wigram from Chris Amon's Ferrari. So, this was a turning point for Formula One. I think this is the only photograph that has ever appeared from the unveiling of the new livery in Christchurch that Friday night. It's the photograph that appeared in the Christchurch papers, it's in Ford's Historic Motorsport database and it's the one photograph that appears from time to time. - Alan Dick

It’s here that Leach creates his captivating portraits depicting legends of popular culture, reinterpreted Japanese iconography and vintage racing machinery – an eclectic mix to be sure but one whose style and colorful execution is unmistakably unique.

When it comes to motorcycles, Leach’s inspiration is fueled by the glory days of early American and British racing – the wooden board tracks, the banked cement courses and the hard sand beaches, as well as mid-century road racing. As he sees it, “vintage competition machines are beautiful objects.”

With acrylic paint being the only 'modernization' to his otherwise traditional medium of brush and canvas, Leach’s hard-wrought yet graceful work adorns the walls of private and public collections around the world, from Sirs Michael Caine and Richard Branson to the Ibsen Museum in Oslo and the Grosvenor Tower in Tokyo. He’s been interviewed and/or had his work featured in Rolling Stone, Esquire, Men’s File, Octane, Nylon, Classic & Sports Car, Vogue, Elle Décor and many more.

A young Tyrone Power in his new Cord convertible.

International Scout production line 1970s.

Hot rod posters celebrated American teen culture during the 1950s. Graphics of young daring couples defying death captured a world audience of eager speed demons. This dramatic depiction evokes a carefree era of cautionless speed and romance underneath the squeaky-clean good looks.

Clinton Township Gratiot Cruise Paint-a-car is just one of the fun activities for children along the Gratiot Cruise route. Creating a Picasso-auto at last year’s event was Riley, age 4.

Rachael Clegg stars in her own calendar celebrating the TT. www.rachaelclegg.com

www.rachaelclegg.com

www.rachaelclegg.com

Pebble Beach tour featuring this 1932 Stutz and 1934 Packard Twelve convertible coupe.

Reginald Wangrove enjoys dispatching his guests to the sharks below.

Bortz collection dream cars.

This is a 1958 Cadillac Coupe De Ville recently purchased from the original owner. It is completly original, and has only 12,000 documented miles!!! It has been in a climate controlled garage, and never driven in rain or snow. It is the most original, lowest mileage car I have ever purchased.

Hells Angels girls 1965, photo Bill Ray.

Bring back shop class. Our nation needs graduates that can actually do something.

The Grand Prix movie that was never released: In the early 1960s Steve McQueen set out to make a GP film called "Day of the Champion." It was shelved when John Frankenheimer started production of "Grand Prix." Read more at goodoldvalves.com.

Early child's car. Could this be Larry Crane?