FAIL X 11.
[Found here.]
Category: Automotive
Saturday Matinee – Steel Shredder, Egg Cracker, Android 207, Tom Waits & Pink Floyd
Not sure why, but this kind of stuff fascinates me.
Egg-breaking machine complete with egg-breaking porn soundtrack found here.
I ran across Paul Whittington‘s Android 207 a coupla years ago. Seems to fit.
Tom Waits‘ self-accompanied masterpiece “Clang Boom Steam” also seems appropriate.
From the Utoobage description: “The iconic video was created by Gerald Scarfe initially as a backdrop film for when the band [Pink Floyd] played the track on its 1977 In the Flesh tour.”
From the Utoobage comments: “Imagine having to wait 40 years to watch your favorite band’s official videoclip.”
Have a great weekend, folks, and don’t forget that astronomy is gonna happen tomorrow night.
1960 Pontiac Sled
This wide ride fit in very few parking spaces, and on the road the margin of error was slim. That’s why you see so few of them anymore. Looks like the snow pack is up to the railing at this resort, so the snowbunny on the left must be about 9-feet tall, too.
[Found here. Related post here. More in our new Automotive Section.]
Retro Reflections
TRUCK FOR SALE NEEDS PARTS
[Found here.]
1968 Pontiac Firebird With The 9-Foot Tall Escort Option.
[Found here.]
Sandy’s Can Cars
Many sources mis-attribute these sculptures to eccentric Australian Albert (Tapper) Torney, but they’re the work of New Zealander Sandy, who sells plans and displays finished models here.
His process is brilliant, meticulous and it’s pure awesome.
[h/t Nancy H. via email]
1968 was the year to get Dodge fever.
Crenshaw Dodge was open daily AND Sunday. If you squint, you can still see the ghost of the dealership.
Adjusted for inflation, $3,014 is about $21,500 in 2017 dollars for one of the classic muscle cars. Overpriced? 50 years later they’re selling for twice as much, and more.
[Ad found here. 2018 listings found here.]
Candy Colored Hot Links
Monitor lizards can count up to six. Nobody knows why they stop counting at that number.
Some people will jump off a 33 foot tall tower for $30, and some people won’t.
Awful graphics, but the information is interesting when you interpolate it. $100 in Mississippi or Alabama buys about 32% more than it does in New York or California (and a whopping 36% more compared to Washington D.C.).
One-sided negotiation is not negotiation.
This scene creeped me right out.
ICYMI. Yeah, it’s blogwhoring. Hit the tip jar if you don’t like it.
[Top image: The posterior of a 1956 Volkswagen Beetle, found here.]
Soviet Volga 1962 GAZ-22 Low Rider Prototype Mod
Here’s an un-modified 1962 Volga GAZ-22. I don’t think it had a cast-iron carburetor, but who knows?
From Wiki:
“Only those shipped abroad for export were sold to private customers. All domestic station wagons/estates, with rare exceptions, were never available for private ownership. The Soviet rationale was that allowing such a car to citizens would also make it too available and popular with dealers in the grey market economy [which] was allowed but limited by the state.”
[Found here.]
Tacky Raccoons 