pre 1940's gas station, just an awesome photo, and a rare early color one
Only advertising big wheel I've ever seen, great idea!
Unusual Superbird with a 1970's funly paint job

3 ads in one dealership... Rambler, Jackson, and India, I like that slogan "No sand too deep, no hill too steep"
What are they doing with this elephant? Trying to break the car?
Rockwell was such a talented artist and pretty good at humor too

Clint Eastwood
Katherine Hepburn?
Petty on the left, Yarborough on the righ if I recall correctly, in the Woods Brothers Mercury
Jimi Hendrix
Why did Ford have more ugly Falcon models than good looking Mustangs?
http://21studs.tumblr.com/ is where all of these came from
Friday, June 10, 2011
extremely great photos from 21 studs tumblr part 1
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Labels: advertising, art, big wheel, bus, celebrity, Dealership, Harley Davidson, Indian, Nascar, paintings, pre 1930's gas station, Super Bee, Superbird, towtruck
Sunday, May 29, 2011
twofers from GoAwayGarage
These two aren't the same make, but they are nearly the same design. Close enough

And this is a threefer, but who's counting? road train, not a steam tractor... very similar though 
Homeless RV and chaise lounge chair


This is the Shamrockaway, before and after 40 years of use and neglect http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2011/01/31/hemmings-find-of-the-day-the-shamrockaway/ for a writeup on it

a 1924 Scott Super Squirrel above, below is the 1926 that Von Dutch restored and lettered for Steve McQueen http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/09/bike-with-possibly-coolest-history-of.html
There was a lot of work to make a wheeled vehicle from this pre 1960's cabin cruiser
How about this... I'd love to see this in motion because I woder if those back wheels power slide like they did on Big Wheels... it was made by the Parker Brothers
http://goawaygarage.blogspot.com/
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Labels: big wheel, Boats, Motorcycle
Thursday, May 5, 2011
1890 Clipper High Wheeler
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Labels: big wheel, LaJolla Motor Car Classic 2011, velocipede, vintage
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Charger Steve's Wild Rides first car show in Pacific Beach was a huge success! The west end of Garnet was packed
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Labels: airbrushing, big wheel, Boats, Chrome, GT 350, Hood ornaments, hood scoops, lowrider, Metro, Nash, Shelby, Torino, truck, velocipede, VW