Potential: One-Eyed Rat Rod Short Bus

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This ^^^ could look like this vvv only lower.
Rat Rod Bus

1953 Short Ford Bus offered for only $6,500:

I put Flat Head V-8 In service 10 years Carb, Ignition, Two new water pumps, all heater hose and service ran strong and just needed a clutch fork, a few glasses and I have access to glass, pulled drive line and did not work on any more, would make a great ride [via]

Go for it.

P.S. The interior is flawless.

130903 Andreas Bus (3)

[Yep, now we’ve got an archive category for Rat Rods and it’s entirely awesome.]

Retro Green Beer Delivery

1958 Chevy Apache

Steam Whistle, arguably Canada’s greenest brewery, has added a custom-built, eco-friendly vintage ride to its delivery fleet. Called Retro Electro, this green machine started life as a 1958 Chevy Apache truck. Steam Whistle retrofitted it with an AC motor capable of cranking out 465 pound-feet of torque, which is on par with the power output of gas-guzzling muscle cars, yet the Retro Electro is emissions-free as it’s Bullfrogpowered with electricity generated by wind turbines. [via]

I’ll refrain from cranking on the insults to “gas-guzzling muscle cars” but that photo is awesome. [Found here.]

Karmann Ghia Rat Rod

Karmann Ghia Rat Rodjpg

[Found here. More rat rods here.]

Discover Ruth Buzzi’s Comfort

Ruth Buzzi's Comfort

Marketing genius or clever disturbing satire? You be the judge.

[Found here.]

Abby Roadtrip

beetles
Clever, but VW missed the obvious. The Bugs in the crosswalk should be blue, gray, black and white, and the gray one should be rolling on rims. [Found here.]

Rat Rod Hog

Rat Rod Farmer Hog

Oh, man, you just gotta click on that image to see the full size pic. One ride around the block and you’ve got callouses. I love it.

[Found here. More Rat Rods here.]

VW Camper Camper

VW Camper Camper

Live in it. Love in it. Gets good mileage, poor performance on steep grades, but you can repair everything on it with a hammer, a screwdriver, an adjustable wrench and a couple of beers.

[Found here, available for under $590 here.]

ESS Car

ESS Car

I hope that whoever designed that made sure that it’s not only slow, but leaves a trail of fluorescent slime.

[Found here. BTW, we just created a new category for all you Snail & Slug Fans so you can peruse our entire collection of gastroposts. Slime away me heartys.]

Scientific Hot Links

You Got Snakes

Sexy People.

The Party Of The Wealthy.

Canada’s House of Common addresses a potential threat to civilization [via].

This song was a hit on pop radio in the early 1960s, and it’s enough to make you wanna puke. [Wiki: The song was composed by Ghanaian musician Guy Warren in 1956 under the original title “An African’s Prayer (Eyi Wala Dong)”.]

The New Dimensions in Testimony program is pretty awesome. More here.

“‘I now have work for 20 years,’ he exclaimed joyfully.” Disturbing true story here.

Classic list of everything blamed on Anthropogenic Global Warming Climate Change: The Warmlist.

ICYMI Department: The Institute for Centrifugal Reasearch: Gravity Is A Mistake. Must see video [via].

Searching for Twitter followers with the promise of absolutely no content, no following and no retweets.

Top image found here, caption inspired by this:

Oil-Finish Steel Hotlinks

Sh*t My Students Write.

Chaetopterus pugaporcinus aka the pigbutt worm.

Cool exhibition of Conway’s Game of Life here.

Nice collection of Living fossils.

Nan goes Christmas shopping in Singapore.

If you’re going to run over your own kid, do it with a Landrover.

A Twinkies inker exposed.

It’s a girl, my lord, in a flat bed Ford. Winslow Arizona trompe l’oeil. (Only criticism – there oughtta be a Jackson in the upper window instead of an eagle.)

Ugly house photos.

Cutting a torus – The Möbius Bagel [via].

On Anthropogenic Global Warming, this is a fun read, and educational, too.

For those who think this blog is about Raccoons, here ya go. [h/t A.U.]

In compliance with Stacy McCain‘s Rules Numbers 2 & 5 on how to get a million hits on your blog, we took a vote and figured why the hell not.

Top image found here.