VW Microbrrrr

One of many ice sculptures at the Glacier Ice Bar and Lounge, Lake George,  Bolton Landing, New York. Or maybe it’s at the Glacier Ice Bar and Lounge in Rockport, Maine.

[Image found here.]

Retro-Future Beetle Stretcher

Retrofuture Volkswagen prototype was designed by Mikhail Smolyanov / Solifuge Design, and he’s got a similar VW Bugsled in black. Since there are no images of modications in progress, I assume that the version above was never built.

HOWEVER, there is this:

Similar design, yet not the same. Image searches for this work in progress produced no matches.

[Top & bottom images found here. Not quite Rat Rods, but I stuck them in The Archive anyway.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 820 – Magic Mirror, Roadslide Attraction & A Subterranean Beetle

[Found here, here and here.]

Pantagruelian Hot Links

Boombada, Les Baxter (1960) From the great 1988 compilation album Swing For A Crime, this recording includes an intro clip from The Big Heat (1953), featuring Lee Marvin being firm but gentle, and then just firm.

Seahorse.

It was hot.

Dot Matrix.

Quiet modesty.

Do the Electric Clam.

Advertising honesty.

The cause of the fires.

Chiropractors be like..

Lab-grown meat looks real.

Humane Resources & Failed Interviews.

250 photo I.D. badges [via Mme. Jujujive].

A phenakistiscope of rats [via Memo Of The Air].

The first flower grown in space [via Bunkerville].

[Top image: Background story on that 2012 Ratrod unknown, found here via Tineye.]


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