1969 magazine that was promoting both new clothes for teens, and the new Dodge line up

If you get a kick out of this period stuff, also check out http://choosingscars.blogspot.com/2008/01/1969-dodge-news-magazine-for-new-line.html

April 1969 Teen magazine, one of the magazines in the Peterson Publishing Group, which also published Hot Rod Magazine.. .. the magazine can be bought on Ebay for around 20 bucks, regardless of what my acquaintences told me, and don't buy from the magazine seller (eBay Member: waysmags waysmagazines@gmail.com ) in Seattle, she ripped me off when she cashed the money order and didn't send me the magazine.

Illustrating the shortage of tires in WW2, a GM pamphet on how to get the most from your automobile until they are back in production after the war

Ted's Garage Blog, damn good website, reminded me of a fantastic artist I had posted about last year...

http://www.classiccar.com/wordpress/2008/the-art-of-michael-ulman/ Ted writes about the work more than I do, but this is such an impressive artist!

http://choosingscars.blogspot.com/2007/03/making-car-and-chopper-art-pieces.html#links

we both link you to the artist's website for his full gallery of past and present portfolio. I have bigger pictures due to the magic of photoshop, remember to click on them for the full size (Micheal didn't put large size pictures on his website) http://www.michaelulman.com/index.htm

I was reminded about this cool artist when I looked at http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/02/robots-in-arts.html

Movie Cars Spotted In The Wild

http://www.photobasement.com/movie-cars-spotted-in-the-wild/

Penske, the brilliant career highlights

Here is a man who has prevailed in every form of racing in which he has participated:
Penske has won the Indianapolis 500 more times than any other owner.

His team was so dominant in the Can-Am Series that he destroyed it, because it was no longer competitive.
To this date, the Penske 917 Can-Am Porsche is considered the single most awesome racing car ever created.

Back when Penske was the team owner for the original Trans-Am, his Chevies dominated. Until he switched to, of all things, American Motors. Two years later, the Javelin won the championship. A couple of years after that, the series imploded, partly because it took too much money and too much commitment to compete with Penske.


However, Penske’s commitment to his drivers isn’t best illustrated by the races he’s won or the series he’s dominated. It’s best illustrated by a story told by Dr. Terry Trammell, at the time of the events the rising star of orthopedic surgery at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis, Indiana.
It was during a race at a track in Canada called Sanair that Mears crashed in an open-wheel racer. In those days, drivers’ feet protruded beyond the front axle line and any frontal impact damaged the driver’s feet, usually crippling them for life. There was no crush zone. Other than the driver’s feet.
Mears’s feet were pulverized by the crash.
Mere hours after the crash, two men showed up at Methodist Hospital in Indiana.
They located Dr. Trammell, explained to him that they had been sent by Mr. Penske, and that they were not allowed to take ‘no’ for an answer. Dr. Trammell explained that he had surgeries scheduled. They explained that the jet was waiting.
Dr. Trammell got on that jet. The attending doctors had not believed that Rick Mears would walk again. Instead, he won two more Indy 500’s. Driving for Roger Penske.
What is less known is that Penske had dispatched the two men and the jet to Indianapolis before Mears had been taken from the track to go to the hospital.
But, you see, that’s always been Penske’s genius.
He’s a genius at recognizing who is, and who isn’t, just that good.
And then sticking with them, no matter what it takes, to make it happen.

Via: http://www.topspeed.com/cars/car-news/-dodge-wins-the-daytona-500-is-roger-finally-paying-attention-ar52623.html

The lie about hybrid cars: Not only do current types of hybrids not save much gas, they don’t do much for emissions, either

Here’s why: the dirtiest moments in the internal combustion engine’s operation are when it is starting.

The more times that the internal combustion engine in a hybrid turns off and the restarts, the more times you’re running that engine through its dirtiest phase of operation. On ordinary internal combustion vehicles, a catalytic converter ensures that the emissions components of the initial start exhaust are cleaned up. Hybrids, however, don’t use catalytic converters.

For the full story:
http://www.topspeed.com/cars/car-news/-hybrids-don-t-save-much-gas-or-emissions-ar52818.html

Incredible video to share with you, thanks to Mike!

With Grave Digger, about a dozen dirt bikers doing flips, supermans, tail flips, etc, and mulitple levels of all of these in the air at the same time in one location. Just freaking incredible, with AC/DC's "For Those About To Rock" running in the background.

Scopped the guys at http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2008/03/awesome-off-road-acrobatics-with-bikes.html by over a month!