Cheap advertising? Maybe not, but it will get a lot of heads to turn on the street as people see the only Checker on New York streets

found on http://fifties50s.blogspot.com/2011/07/new-york-checker-cab.html

Most unusual and rare NHRA souvenir you are likely to see all year, maybe all decade. The NHRA Winternats / Springnats / Worldfinals duffel bag from the 1970's

From Jay's collection of the unusual automotive things of the 60's and 70's.

Ever seen one?

The sheet set just popped up on Ebay, here and Jay snapped it up to match the duffel bag

Can anyone tell us if this Road Runner air filter pie tin is unusual, or is this reverse image just the way they were made?

Thanks Jay!

Best In The Desert, the world’s largest off-road desert racing organization is about to launch the 2013.season with the Parker 425, the Rally Fighter is our local favorite to cheer on and support

The Rally Fighter by Local Motors is the world's first car to be designed online, by a community of global automotive designers, engineers, fabricators and enthusiasts.

Local Motors will return to Parker, Ariz. to run the 2013 Blue Water Resort & Casino Parker “425” Race. The race will kick off a six-race schedule for Best In The Desert, the world’s largest off-road desert racing organization.

 The Parker “425” will also broadcast live via http://bitd.com/

how to fly a B29, the official training film

Found on http://overtakingisfun.blogspot.com.br

Formula One, 1973. An hour long movie

Found on http://overtakingisfun.blogspot.com.br/

1950's photos of a fire truck station at Middletown New York, very cool trucks

all found on http://fifties50s.blogspot.com

the coolest hot rod dentist/orthodontist office you're likely to see

 

 learned about it on http://fifties50s.blogspot.com but got these photos from the dr's post on the HAMB http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=577234

of get to the Dr's website if you aren't anywhere near Conway Arkansas to stop by and see DJM Orthodontics http://www.djmortho.com/

Way back when the US Post Office was profitable, they had mobile post office railcars processing mail while between towns

 as rare that a mail car is, there is another in this same county... in the Escondido Grape Day Park

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/05/escondidos-santa-fe-train-depot-and.html

Atchison Topeka and the Santa Fe cupola Caboose #1413 built in 1923

Dad's little helper

from my ex's blog, she doesn't post much car stuff anymore. justacargal.blogspot.com

stupidest thieves of the week... could not steal a Z06 Corvette because they didn't know how to operate a stick shift

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/29/16759522-carjackers-unable-to-drive-stick-shift-fail-to-steal-corvette?lite

The aspiring carjacker didn’t know how to start Bean’s car, a 2002 Millennium Yellow Z06 Corvette. (The car, used, sells for about $19,000.)

"The guy started screaming at me, 'How do I start the car?'" Bean told WKMG. Finally, the other guy, still holding Bean at gunpoint, hollered back, “It’s a stick!”

“I had to tell him four different times that you have to push in the clutch because it’s a standard transmission,” Bean told myfoxorlando.com.

The two assailants – Bean said they were handsome young men -- ultimately ran away with his phone, wallet and keys. The wallet, he said, was special because his wife made it.

“My first thought was I guess we don’t have driver’s ed in school anymore because no one knows how to drive a stick,” he told myfoxorlando.com. “And my second thing was, ‘Don’t shoot me because you can’t start the car! I am trying to help you out here.’”

Southern Pacific 2353, restored in the 1990's, was running and used in movies from 1996-2000

Pacific Railway Museum in the middle of nowhere

Something about the stark contrast of the above struck me

I pretty much just saved you 15 dollars. Unless you want to visit the middle of nowhere and see these trains in person. They're cool, but... 15 dollars, and gas to find this place 15 miles off the freeway