Bob Hope's cool custom golf cart

Custom bike design challlenge from Local Motors and DP Customs

Learn more at http://www.localmotors.com/a-custom-motorcycle-design-challenge/2013/03

and https://forge.localmotors.com/

Fyi, have you hit a 99 cent store dvd section lately? I just bought " Back From The Dead" for a buck

two chevy trucks about 70 or 80 years apart, swapped pickup beds

 

the Econoline van that Von Dutch painted and customized finally showed up in a Magazine, theis monthe Hot Rod Deluxe

the 70's were quite a roll, the cars that were customized were far out, the ones that were produced were lousy. Here's a cheer to the customizers, the "Street Freaks" , and the street racers. Vans edition

found on both http://70sstreetmachines.tumblr.com and http://gassers.tumblr.com

54 Nash Metro from field junk to cruiser cool, from 73 cu in to an LS1

beside the improvement in the engine, all the suspension is now Mustang, the rear end is a narrowed 9", and the doors were swapped from side to side and now function suicide style.

photos and story are just a sample of the whole story at http://www.rodauthority.com/news/car-feature-maverick-metro-mark-haydens-54-nash/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=car-feature-maverick-metro-mark-haydens-54-nash

Alloway's Hot Rod Shop 1967 Ford Fairlane with a Boss 429 at SEMA

Ian Roussel's newest build, the Bucket O Fun

and the engine is a Diamond REO, not a Rio. You know that, REO was a company from waayyy back in 1904 when Ransom E Olds made the REO company to make cars and trucks, busses were made too. Diamond T made trucks and semis (tractor trailer / 18 wheelers / (or whatever you call them)) and REO and Diamond T merged in 1967. The White trucking company bought that, and that is how a Diamond REO engine comes from a White truck. As soon as I read Rio, I knew that some explanation would be a good thing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_Reo_Trucks

if you can't remember where you heard the name Ian Roussel, it might have been from the Space Junkie at Gene Winfield's open house http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/10/space-junkie-by-ian-roussel-was-at-gene.html  or the video http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/03/ian-roussel-kustom-cars-lead-sleds-54.html