Just A Car Guy

Tuesday, October 09, 2018

with a 1977 VW van, a hopeful restaurateur took his creations on the road, and serves only a handful of people at a time his cocktails and entrees

in the summers, they take the show on the road: https://www.instagram.com/ggnchan/
in the winters, he works at New York speakeasy Angel's Share

in 2016, he won the prestigious Bacardi Legacy Competition

The USBG Legacy Cocktail Showcase, a.k.a. Bacardi Legacy, is easily one of the most recognized bartending competitions in the world. Unlike competitions that prize over-the-top, imaginative and often complex concoctions, Legacy highlights the drinks that could one day become the Cuba Libres, daiquiris and mai tais of our generation: modern-day classics that will withstand the test of time, with recipes that can be easily replicated at bars around the world. A victory at Legacy is one of the highest honors that someone in the craft cocktail industry can achieve — and this year, it went to a bartender who’d never set foot on a competition stage before.

In fact, Gn Chan wasn’t even planning on entering the competition when he first developed the recipe for his winning drink: it was all part of a friendly staff competition at Angel’s Share, where he works. “It started as an assignment in our bar; everyone had to make a drink using Bacardi Legacy standards,” says Chan, who started developing his recipe in early spring of 2015. “The hard part is, you have to choose [ingredients] that everyone can easily get, and you have to represent your story,” he says.

https://www.cocktailcourier.com/about/
https://www.redbull.com/us-en/theredbulletin/vw-camper-van-turned-pop-up-bar
https://talesofthecocktail.com/people/how-gn-chan-won-years-usbg-bacardi-legacy-competition

Mario is inspirational. Aafter breaking his neck (don't do that, listen to your parents instead) he wanted to get back to racing bad enough that he learned to engineer a steering wheel that would work for him as shifter, brakes, and acceleration

before you press play, admire the engineering for a moment of the steering wheel

if you want to know how a guy who can barely get a sandwich in his mouth drives a BMW M3 at 130 miles per hour using technology he built in his bedroom, then ponder his story. If you want to know why a teen who sustained a crushing injury is now an adult who races cars — just go with it.

read the story at https://www.redbull.com/us-en/theredbulletin/mario-bonfante-jr-quadriplegic-race-car-driver I did. I also recommend just subscribing to Red Bulletin magazine

this 1933 roadster is one of only 71 built. Seven still survive, with three in Australia and four in the U.S.

https://www.hotrod.com/articles/handful-1933-willys-roadsters-exist-found-wildest/

twin Rolls Royce V 12 aircraft engines... rumbling. Turn it on, turn it up. Annoy most of your co-workers for 15 seconds, the ones who dig engines? They'll high 5 you

http://www.woodyboater.com/blog/2018/08/12/tons-of-tahoe-thunder-interiors-and-engines/

the boat was featured here https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/11/highest-auction-prices-ever-paid-for.html

Max Grundy's newest design... bitch'n!

http://maxgrundy.com/storeapperal.htm

Charles Bronson driving a Mustang in a car chase, and you've probably never seen it! Enjoy!

22 seconds after renting a Ferrari, she crashed it. 600 thousand dollar car, poof, destroyed

Monday, October 08, 2018

ok.... this has me completely stoked! They built a ramp up to the roof of Madison Square Garden in 1900, for the 1st car show.... We need to insist on test ramps over and around all car show buildings! C'mon Jeep! Gut up and build the next most incredible show exhibit the world has ever seen!

Joseph H. McDuffee of Prest-O-Lite, driving a Locomobile steamer down the rooftop runway ramp for steam cars during the 1900 New York Auto Show held at Madison Square Garden in New York.

One method used to test cars in the infant days of the automobile industry. The picture shows a specially constructed incline on top of Madison Square Garden on which the hill climbing abilities of the "buzz wagons" as they were then called, were tested. It was a simple matter to descend and a real task to climb in those days.

A Times article on Nov. 4, 1900, said that 'facetious onlookers' - which almost certainly means reporters themselves - called that first exhibition 'The Horseless Horse Show.' And it probably was true that the auto show attracted the same socialites who attended a high-society horse show at that time of year.

Those who could afford to shop for a car at the auto show probably belonged to a clubby group of 'automobilists.' When those 'sportsmen' arrived in New York City, the first thing they did was compare notes on how far they had come - and especially how fast.

There was enough room left over in Madison Square Garden that first year for a track and a slalom course, so people could see the horseless carriages in motion.

Automobiles powered by internal combustion engines at the 1900 National Automobile Show were primitive, noisy and cantankerous. Most ran on a variety of “light spirits” such as stove gas, kerosene, naphtha, lamp oil, benzene, mineral spirits, alcohol, and gasoline.

https://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/item/42217
http://www.autonews.com/article/19960626/ANA/606260838/there-wasnt-a-horse-in-sight-at-1900-n.y.-auto-show
https://digitalcollections.detroitpubliclibrary.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A184815
https://untappedcities.com/2014/07/17/vintage-nyc-photography-murder-at-madison-square-gardens-rooftop-theater/
http://www.messynessychic.com/2017/03/17/new-yorks-incredible-lost-rooftop-theatres/

Photo by Nathan Lazarnick, 29 West 42nd Street, N.Y.

the Smith Wheel company exhibit at the 1922 New York Auto Show

https://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/item/42528

Philadelphia Hot Rod Show 1962

https://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/item/42972

George Drescher demonstrating the new cabinettry in a Dodge salesman's car at the 21st Automotive Service Industries Show in Chicago, 1941

Something you might not be aware of, is that with the advent of big inexpensive cars, door to door, and city to city salesman were in big demand, and instead of using trucks, the car makers were building car with no back seats and huge trunks for lots of storage, called a Business Coupe, and though this is an aftermarket cabinetry far nicer than any salesman was going to pay for, it's the eye candy that pulls people into the convention booth so the sales guy can sell anything else his company makes

Like this Lincoln Zephyr https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2012/06/business-coupes-were-2-door-cars-with.html

or this Dodge. https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/07/dodge-business-coupe-what.html

I've often wondered why no one has made a hellacious dragster out of one... the size of the slick you could fit under that!

https://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/item/44932

General Pershing’s 1915 Dodge was used on the 1916 expedition in which United States troops set out in pursuit of the Mexican raiding bandit Pancho Villa, and was in continuous use at Fort Bliss until 1931.

Seated in the rear seats are General John P. Kirk and Major Soller. The driver is Howard Johnson. The doughboys surrounding the veteran vehicle are members of the 32d Division.

It was after the Mexican affair that President Woodrow Wilson appointed Pershing to command the American army.

https://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/item/44936

The chase of Pancho Villa was previously covered in detail in https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2015/08/heading-into-mexico-after-pancho-villa.html
and was incidental in https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2015/12/pharr-texas-had-no-fire-department-and.html

Racing a Scimitar with a fiberglass body

Drag racing in the UK back in the 60's produced some interesting machinery and the car below was based on a Reliant Scimitar GTE with an unblown 427 powerplant - it was called Whistler. The Reliant Scimitar was manufactured by a company better known for a range of ghastly underpowered 3-wheelers and it was a real surprise when the Scimitar was released. Glass fibre body powered by a straight 6 Ford engine - looked great and performed well too. There's still a cult following in NZ with a Scimitar owner's club of around 150 cars. Amazing for a country with only 4M population.
http://geoffjames.blogspot.com/2012/01/social-history-in-photos.html

Mark Stratton was friendly with one of the marketing people at the Reliant Motor Company and managed to persuade him to donate a fibreglass body from the new version of the Reliant Scimitar known as the GTE (the 'E' stood for estate). Dennis Priddle is driving the car here which has been fitted with a deflector to reduce the amount of air entering the carbs

Nothing like this had been built before and with John's help and encouragement the car became the state of the art in the sport. With great celebration the team named it 'Whistler' and the Reliant GTE made its first runs at Santa Pod in the spring of 1969.

Dennis Priddle was recruited to drive the car and in his hands it was unbeatable when running 10.4 second runs at 140mph. Consequently the Stratton stable won the Super Eliminator Trophy at Santa Pod for the third year in a row.

http://www.theaccelerationarchive.co.uk/john/woolfe_01.html

a new preview for Mortal Engines was released in New York's Comic Con

long forgotten spare key for the Vespa, found when the new owner started a thorough disassembly and cleaning

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1603243593259589/permalink/2107833399467270/

make hay while the sun is shining, and skate while the wind is blowing

http://theory-0f-everything.tumblr.com/

it's a gutsy thing to even attempt

http://theory-0f-everything.tumblr.com/

supercharged hemi Cobra, a Chris Craft Cobra, not a Shelby Cobra

Chris Craft used the name Cobra in 1955. So, Shelby wasn't the first or the last.

http://www.woodyboater.com/blog/2018/08/12/tons-of-tahoe-thunder-interiors-and-engines/

been awhile since I've posted engine porn

http://www.woodyboater.com/blog/2018/09/15/boat-the-blue-breaks-all-records/

check out this terrific boat cart... might be for getting to and from the lake, or it might just be for showroom display... but I've never seen another like it

in the Sierra Boat Company showroom

http://www.woodyboater.com/blog/2018/08/14/tahoe-sausage-day-ahhh-come-on-you-knew-it-was-gonna-happen/

As hard as it is to believe, Andre fit on a Honda 3 wheeler

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=565546143874173&set=g.674239962722623&type=1&ifg=1

I love seeing happy young people with their cool musclecars back in the 70s and 80s

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10215827165903503&set=gm.1561138287366115&type=3&permPage=1

there's got to be a story about this car, Allen found another photo! thanks Allen!

but its running in a British drag race series in the "Senior Street" class against the 'Red-E" Jaguar of Bob Oram.

funky rims combo!

http://talk.cobraregistry.com/showthread.php?2154-Cobra-related-Oldies-photos/page13

John Woolfe Racing, and Hot Car Magazine stickers, along with British looking Castrol sticker.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=565546143874173&set=g.674239962722623&type=1&ifg=1

Sunday, October 07, 2018

how to win the Halloween costume contest

http://darkdraggon.tumblr.com/post/178748863315/loloftheday-you-better-be-scared

holy cripes that guy is horizontal

http://darkdraggon.tumblr.com/page/5

the guy you don't want dating your daughter

https://www.facebook.com/lifetimeledlights/photos/a.541973155847054/2198747376836282/?type=3&permPage=1

wow

https://www.facebook.com/groups/413414438697407/permalink/1918319978206838/

Adler Trumpf Rennlimousine of 1938 -photo by Bob Sheldon in cortina d ' Ampezzo (Italy), in 1952

Jaray had been trained in airship design at a time when Germany was pioneering lighter-than-air flight. Having determined that the so-called spindle shape of an airship was ideally aerodynamic, Jaray cut it in half through the equator to form an automobile body. Further study determined that, in order to give the car stability, the half-spindle shape had to be tapered out into flat wings on either side of a tapered rear. The windshield was completely curved at almost 180 degrees to ideally direct air around the car rather than over it.

After 1955 the Adler was exported to the United States and came into the ownership of Joe Gertler Sr., operator of the Raceway Garage in the Bronx and a noted racing car fabricator and mechanic of his time. Remarkably, of the three Rennlimousines that survived the war, Mr. Gertler would come to own two of them.

The Adler was later acquired by Jimmy Brucker, best known for the Movieworld – Cars of the Stars Museum in Buena Park, but widely remembered as a sponsor of numerous kustom kulture artists, including Von Dutch, Robert Williams, and Ed Roth, as well as a supplier of unusual antique automobiles to the film industry.

Following MovieWorld's closure, the Adler was acquired by Ken Behring's Blackhawk Collection.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=755619444776156&set=gm.2169152966674221&type=3&permPage=1
https://www.classicdriver.com/en/car/adler/trumpf/1938/316119

streamliner... origin of the word

in an era before wind tunnels, threads were attached to the body of a vehicle; the prototype was then photographed at speed on the road, and the body's curves then adjusted to the paths of the threads—what engineers called streamlines. More recently tufts of yarn are taped onto cars

https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/topic/aerodynamic-container

https://www.roadandtrack.com/motorsports/a26376/coupe-de-grace-shelby-daytona-coupe-story/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/stiffspeed/permalink/1569976126482331/

Camaros that Gene Winfield painted for a Chevrolet teen fair promotion.

I bet some collector would love to find these!

images from the 2008 book by David Grant: “The Legendary Custom Cars and Hot Rods of Gene Winfield,”

https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2008/04/17/the-lost-gene-winfield-muscle-cars/

I think I've found another, but it had no information with it