Would you want a new Jeep, if they could only have the military tread pattern? It's disconcerting to view a new vehicle with WW2 era military tires

What do you think... pretty weird to look at? Or a cool idea no one has thought of doing to a new car?

The tires and rims display area at SEMA, the stuff that captured my attention

Hands free tire mounting! This isn't the only one on the market, but it was the first I've sever seen

This tire seat is comfortable too!

The yellow and red rims are interesting, I haven't seen any 2 spoke rim before... I wonder about the balance

The above was particularly impressive, good concept for a display

If you have balanced tires, like I have, you'll probably appreciate the full range of all the weights this company http://www.cnblueocean.com/ displayed. Myself, I'm impressed.

This is one bitchin display wall

The lever in the below photo has a nail welded to it, and any passerby gets to puncture the tire as many times as they want to prove to themselves how perfectly inflated the tire remains.

Clever advertising from Pirelli

I dan't know why it has dually front tires, but it's an attention grabber

Black and white and cool all over

Sophia Loren on the hood of a 300sl

Nixon in Paris 1957

Bumper cars at a British carnival

The concept car Ford Seattle

Dizzy Dean trying to start a 2nd career

Daytona Beach racing 1953

Train wreck Palatine Illinois 1950

Cincinatti 1950

Looks like James Dean's Porsche

Brooklyn 1955, maybe a Packard taxi

From "If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger,There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats" a blog about all pre-1970 American culture via photography http://tsutpen.blogspot.com/

I just watched a cool show on HD Theater about tire repairs for the enormous earth movers, I learned retreading is about 60% the cost of new tires

the shop that was featured on the show is http://www.rdhtire.com/ in Cleveland

These are funny tire commercials, you might have seen them already, but I just came across the whale one

Grand National Roadser show coverage continues with the Boss custom Mustang with huge wheels

Here is the photo gallery of it at Sema http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/11/boss-stang-looks-real-cool-with.html

x rated advertising part 6, the ridiculous use of double entendre to sell tires and mufflers

there was so much of this, and I find it amusing, so I've posted a lot of it: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/rated%20R

1940's Goodyear tire ad

Via: http://nostalgiaonwheels.blogspot.com/

a few great images

the photographer Dorothea Lange, famous for excellent photos that humanized the tragic consequences of the Great Depression and profoundly influenced the development of documentary photography during the great depression. She was one of several photographers that were working for a government agency, the Farm Security Administration, that wanted the state of the people to be captured for historical perspective. Jack Delano was another, and they were both incredibly good photographers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothea_Lange

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