Tag: Rat Rod

Bug of the Apocalypse

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

Rat Rod

Somewhere in California.

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

VW Lead Sled Beetle

Not exactly a rat rod, but still cool. [Found here via here.]

1949 Mercury Cyclops

[Dieselpunk Mercury found here. Unknown original source.]

Myomancing Hot Links

On My Own, The Muffs, (2019) The Muffs were a successful punk band from SoCal, formed by bassist, guitarist and lead singer Kim “Kimba” Shattock in 1991. Shattock suffered from ALS (aka Lou Gehrig’s Disease) for several years, and soon after recording the band’s final album No Holiday, she passed away in 2019 at the age of 56.

THIS DOG.

HO Spiral 1
HO Spiral 2
HO Dilemma

Cheese bra.

Math much?

Blues Moose Radio.

Campers and campers.

Milk pandas (and more).

Sound up for the SkaFire.

A big test is coming October 4.

Those terrifying little upticks…

Theft-proof suitcase [via Bunkerville].

Pasta la vista, baby [via Mme. Jujujive].

“We have never seen anything like this.”

Doodling on a glow-in-the dark LP with a laser pointer.
[via Memo Of The Air]

[Top image found here, unknown origin.]

From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.

Meconomancing Hot Links

One Way Out, Elmore James (1960) James recorded the song in 1960 but it wasn’t released until 1965, two years after his death; Sonny Boy Williamson II covered it in 1961 (released in 1962);  in 1965 G. L. Crockett reworked it and recorded It’s A Man Down There. There have been many covers since, with The Allman Bros. Band‘s 1971 version being the best known.

The Sightseers.

Have some Chet.

Pop Tarts… and more.

Discover New Mexico.

Kasey Kasem’s Top 10.

17 TIMES! [h/t Pam M.]

I Mess With The Fishies.

Home Depot tips in Portland.

Don’t go here and don’t do that.

Corn snake boobs [via Neatorama].

Skibidi Toilet explained [h/t Gord S.].

Johnny Sang Barbie [via Memo Of The Air].

Gladys Ingle & the 13 Black Cats [via Bunkerville].

Bagel reviews [via Mme. Jujujive. She knows where to find excellent music].

Added to blogroll: Archie Archive’s Norty Blues. Nice eclectic collection from 1920s to the present, with brief commentary.

[Top image: The Ugly Grouper, h/t Gus_802.]

From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.

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.]

From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.

Update: Twitter now requires you to have an account and log in before you can see linked tweets. What a shame.

Chopped & Slammed VW Microbus

VW Microbus

I want one.

Chopped and Lowered VW Rat Rod Prowler

Chopped Lowered VW RatRod Prowler

The ghost of Ed Big Daddy Roth lives.

[Found here. More Rat Rods here.]

1940s Rat Rod Go Cart

Go Cart (6)

Go Cart (8)

Go Cart (7)

Go Cart (1)

Go Cart (2)

Pop Strutts (my grampa) created this bit of vehicular awesome from a lawnmower engine, some stray bicycle parts and wood scraps. There was no steering wheel, only a tiller.

The engine was a Briggs & Stratton 1/2 hp rope-starter. It had three gears, but to change gears you had to stop, move the drive belt a pulley over, and hope it didn’t sever your fingers while you moved it. There was an accelerator pedal that attached to the throttle, and a brake that consisted of a lever that forced a piece of metal into the rubber of one of the rear wheels.

To shut down the engine, there was a piece of spring metal with a wooden switch to short out the spark plug. It’d give you a nice zap if your finger missed the wood.

What’s not shown here is The Peckerwood. On the rear of the vehicle, Pop mounted a wooden image of a boy who mechanically rocked back and forth as the Go Cart moved, poking his steel wire “pecker” back and forth through a steel eye screw.  Papa Strutts probably removed it so as not to give a 10 year-old Bunk any nasty ideas, but I remember it. I had nasty ideas anyway, but not because of The Peckerwood.

[Rat Rods Archive here.]

[Update: November 2014 – this sold at a recent estate sale for $75.]