Category: Automotive

Bug of the Apocalypse

[Images of ROMP found here, here and here, video here.

Wave Hello To Honest Joe – Rubin Goldstein

“Nobody outside his family knew his real name. Dallas knew him as Honest Joe. For nearly three decades Honest Joe’s pawn shop was one of the central hubs of activity in Deep Ellum. He sold everything from gold watches to prosthetic limbs to automatic weapons. His two-story building was covered in hand-painted signs and hubcaps – or was it? It was covered in signage and hubcaps, but as for the two-story part . . . well, that’s another story . . .”

[Top photo by Thomas Hoepker (1963) found here. Second photo found here (with a must-read history); third here; fourth here.]

Cat Charging

[Found here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 902 – Prancyboys, Seal Lion Boops & The Bus of Judgement

[Found here, here and here. The 3rd is from the final scene of The Graduate.]

The Boys Are Back In Town

1973 1974 Chevy Nova & 1958 Cadillac Fleetwood Plymouth Fury.
[Found here.]

Update: Thanks to Dan P. who correctly identified the Plymouth with truck running gear.

Update 2: Eric says that’s a ’74 Nova in the back. Good eye.

Rat Rod

Somewhere in California.

[Images found here, here & here. More rat rods in The Archive.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 898 – Extreme Traffic Control, Crabwalkers & Invasion of the Terror Bunnies

[Found here, here and here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 896 – Karate Bulk Belt, Bouncing Beds & Popping A Wheelie

[Found here, here and here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 893 – Boating While Beer, Poppin’ Poppa & The Automuncher

[Found  here, here and here; h/t Chuck C. for the muncher.]

Sliced Caravelle

CARBON COPY is a sculpture by Caitlind r.c. Brown and Wayne Garrett, installed in the Brewery District of Edmonton, Canada, in 2018. The lights of the 1988 Plymouth Caravelle glow, and a laser in the front seat scans the pavement every 20 seconds.

“CARBON COPY transforms an unremarkable suburban car into an illuminated obelisk, a monument to North America’s car-centric culture.”

[Found via here and here.]