Sunday, July 4, 2010

Cool new stuff on Super 2CV in the past couple months

What a cool tow truck! 1955 Chev Apache?


A 2Cv 5th wheel... awesome!

and a 2cv pickup

Stored in the garage since 1980
For a great Citreon and european photoblog have a fun time looking through http://www.super2cv.com/

Friday, July 2, 2010

1956 Ford hauler with a C600 cab is new on the cruise scene in El Cajon... very cool!







For a similar 1950's Ford hauler / transporter, but it's a crew cab: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/03/king-cab-1950s-coe-ford-hauler-from.html

El Cajon cruise season opener finally took place the last wednesday of June, a tiny '38 American Austin was there

it's so small, the passenger seat doubles as an arm rest


Museum of transportation, a must see, if you are ever in Turkey

here's a link to the museum, to see a brief description of the exhibits, which include the USS Thornback SS 418 (I'm a submariner, I dig the old subs that are now museums!) railcars, and among a plethora of other things, a double-decker London bus, a restored tram car, and a DC-3 ‘Dakota’ airplane - which is suspended 50’ feet off the ground. It also showcases vintage automobiles, motorcycles, carriages, and wooden speedboats.

Found by looking at http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Marmara/Istanbul/blog-48162.html see the museum webpage at http://www.rmk-museum.org.tr/english/index.html

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Ralf Becker found a 1973 Ford Falcon XB GT coupe being made into the Mad Max car!

the ( copywritten ) photo is part of a gallery Ralf (founder and Editor-in-Chief of Chromjuwelen.com ) posted on his website http://ralfbecker.com/blog/2010/5/13/1973-ford-falcon-xb-gt-coupe-mad-max-movie-correct.html , and also on his flikr gallery for all the photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/chromjuwelen/sets/72157623930326901/

For a great image of the Mad Max car: http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/4323/4194/1600/82355/mad-max-wallpaper-1-1024.jpg I know I've posted more about the movie car, and where it is now has been the subject of a couple of magazine articles, but I can't find them right now

for more on the Mad Max car http://www.madmaxmovies.com/cars/mad-max-interceptor/index.html

Exclusively Mopar, the sort of shop I'd love to hang out at! My trouble is, this one's in Olfen Germany, halfway around the world from me

http://www.moparshop.de/ with room for 23 Mopars to be worked on, and 15 years of growing from a hobby to this large business, it is now full service for Mopars from 1962 to 1978.


To get your computer to translate for you, load up the google taskbar, and translate will be an automatic offering that will pop up in a bar across the top of your screen, asking if you want the text translated from whatever language is determines the website to be in. I use it all the time.