automotive car: January 2011

Stone's Pig Garage rat rod, has some cool stuff to check out

Maybe a tractor grill, but I like it, and great placement of the headlightsNotice the horns on both sides of the firewall by the leading edge of the doors... cool. Great interior, I was instantly admiring the radio, the antique fire extinguisher, speaker grill by the shifer base and those terrific seats made from 1960's lawn chairs I admire...

cool hauler at the GNRS, I didn't get the info, but it's got a great vintage look, nice lines, and perfect colors

for photos of it from the 2011 Del Mar Goodguys http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/04/al-meylings-47-cab-over-hot-rod-hauler.h...

The Van-Go... cool, very cool, from the "Cars Not Culture" guru of Church magazine, Coby Gewertz

see another gallery athttp://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2011/01/27/ear-severing-awesomeness/ but for the awesome photography and "peg the meter" cool factor, check into http://www.carsnotculture.com/usa/zine....

Cars are boring because people keep buying them. Please buy something more interesting! Here is a great video, for the 40 mpg Elantra

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Holy S*** ! , tool innovations from firefighters, for firefighters. This rocks! Sharing great ideas for the benefit of all

Damn, this ought to be framed art (minus the extra set of earplugs)Check out all the bitchin tools, modified, improvised, and uses you never thought of for common stuff, but firefighters have found work really good for propping open doors,keeping things in place, and misc simple things that have been proven to help in emergencieshttp://www.vententersearch.com/pockets.htmThanks...

I found another hilarious writer of automobile columns, here's an excerpt

Let's say you bought a Cadillac CTS-V Sport Wagon, with a 6.2-liter, 556-horsepower Corvette V8, six-speed manual transmission.... thundering through the quarter-mile in 11.9 seconds at 116 mph, according to my colleagues at Car and Driver, who do impeccable instrumented testing.....this wagon is about as esoteric an automobile as you're likely to find. Statistically speaking, General Motors will sell exactly none of these cars,...

The car club made trophys to be awarded to the suede and chrome standout cars at the 2011 Grand National Roadster Show

Fan damn tastic mohawk on this skull, way cool curl on the front for previously posted hot rod trophys: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/hot%20rod%20trophy...

"A Touch to Much" tribute truck to AC/DC... with working Marshall amp and smoke machine, and amazing airbrushed panels

Original designs include:•A Sonor drum pedal for the accelerator•Ahead drum sticks for turn signal and Tilt actuators•Paiste cymbal for switch plate•Roc N Soc drum thrones for seats•Shure microphone head for shifter knob•Coffin mic case for shifter console•Gibson guitar knobs for door openers The above airbrushed piece amazes me that is...