Goodguys Scottsdale 09

My brother Dave who has moved to warmer climes
in Scottsdale spent the other weekend
at an end of the season Goodguys car show.

He sent along some pics of some
very hot rodded cars.

Ahh... summer in November.

San Diego Festival of Speed III

I remmember it well.

Ahh... 11 years old, summer afternoon,
fist full of Black Cats.

(If only I'd had the sound track)

Get 'er done.

So I was welding on the truck.......

Car Gals II

Hemmings

Whilst prousing other auto blogs (looking for images to steal) I ran across a pic from the Hassie car show I posted on Hemmings auto blogs and they said "The folks over at the A.D.D. Garage visited a local tin toy car show and came back with a good set of pictures of the event"

I wondered why I had a bump in viewership from the usual
2 to over 800 and the next day back to 2.

Excitment!

From Youtube:

This is the video of the best dispute ever in Formula 1, between Gilles Villeneuve (Ferrari) and René Arnoux (Renault) in the French Grand Prix in 1979.

Very short, very exciting, about 1 min.

Uh... four, no five!

Hey mister, how many boxes do you want?

Fish Eye Finds

San Diego Festival of Speed II

More in the pits.

Light weight Jag

Safety First.

Hassie III

I found a last look at the Hassie car show
and thought it would be nice on a
cold rainy day.

Blairie next to her favorite.

The red in the photo does not do
the Buick justice.

San Diego Festival of Speed

We got to visit my sister in San Diego
and as chance would have it, it was the
same weekend of the Festival of Speed.

Lot's of wonderful vintage race cars
from the 50's thru to the 90's.

Car Gals

Some time ago my brother told me "Jeez, your blog sure is boring" Well that might be true I never thought about it to tell the truth.

So I asked my self what could be more exciting than cars and thought "Self, that would be cars and gals"

Most of the pics come from a thread on the H.A.M.B.
called: Cool Pictures. Post them here!

Not all the pics are of gals (far from it) but it's a great thread, some 470 pages with all kinds of pictures from a day in the life of America from the 40's to today.

Very entertaining.

Hassie Show II

A local car restorer (Jeeps), toy maker and
collector showed off some of his tin toy cars.
Great stuff!

Cool.

Hassie Car Show

The Hassie Car Club held
their first Annual car show
the other weekend.
The show had many cars not seen in
any Spokane show in many years.
Lots of 30's and 40's era large autos.

A friend's (Mac) air cooled Franklin.

The cylinders of the Franklin open to the air.

Cool looking component on the Franklin.

Muntz Jet a rare car made in the early 50's
aluminum bodied with a fiberglass top.

Skip's (the organizer) Packard Coupe.

A wonderful RHD Bentley.

Another beautiful Packard.

And yet another Packard.

1900 Locomobile steamer, a class winner.

Bailey's Brigade

Bailey's Birgade car show was last weekend.

A lot of great cars.

I took Bailey for a spin in the Speedster
after the show and
he really seem to enjoy it.

As I got out of the car after the ride a gentleman
tapped me on the shoulder and said "Do you know
what you just did?" "No, what" I said. "You just
created a car guy for life." He answered.

Not bad for a 5 minute ride.

Interesting, Ed won his class and Bailey's Pick
last year with the Cobra.

Luckly this year he chose to stay
home and work on projects.

Bailey's Birgade is a local group supporting
Bailey and his fight with diabetes and
and their support of the
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

The good folks at Rod Builders were nice enough
to point out the Speedster winning it's
class and Bailey's Pick at the show on
their blog. Thanks.

E Type: The most beautiful car ever.

I hate to beat people over the head with this but
it's true, and it bears repeating.

UNTIL EVERYONE UNDERSTANDS!

Besides this guy is an expert (it says so).

How: Differential

I didn't know that!

If you have just a few minutes and would like to understand
how the differential works here is a pre-war GM educational
film clip. Only a few minutes long, very simply explains
the principle of the diffs operation.
A well spent 9 minutes.

Easy Fix

I had an idea that replacing the worn outside window

squeegee rubber would be simple and easy.


Well I was right (who'da thunk).

The chrome piece the rubber was mounted to came off easily and clips holding the squeegee to the chrome piece pop off with out a hitch.

A little clean up and trimming and good as new.