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Four-Links – pizzaboy searches for Camaro, CJ-6s galore, kustoms in Italy, Stanguellini tour

Автор: RaymondLilly | суббота, 26 сентября 2009 г.

John Schattner and his 1972 Camaro

* So even though we don’t have a Papa John’s anywhere nearby, we see their commercials on the television around here, and one of the latest commercials features founder John Schnatter tooling around in a gold second-gen Camaro. As it turns out, that car’s a clone of the ‘72 John owned when he started the pizza chain, but was forced to sell to keep the business afloat. Now, John’s on the lookout for the exact car he sold off many years ago and has started a site to follow his search. (via)

* Though the CJ-8 seems to get all the attention when it comes to collectible CJs nowadays, the CJ-6 certainly has its own dedicated fanbase, and Boyink has a nice blog dedicated not only to his 6, but to all sorts of different CJ-6s. (via)

kustoms in Italy

* There’s something quite incongruous about a kustom show in Italy. While kustom builders and Italians both appreciate aesthetics, the homegrown American aesthetic of the kustoms seems entirely out of place against the backdrop of handsome old-world cities criss-crossed with cobblestone streets. Which makes Lowtech’s photos of last weekend’s kustomweekend near Florence all the more compelling.

Stanguellinis

* We’ve been digging Retro Scene Magazine’s online content lately, and they deliver again with a tour of the Stanguellini family’s dealership, which includes a number of the family’s sports and racing cars from the etceterini period.

Larry Watson's House of Style

* Finally, another kustom post. This time, though, the Transforming the Pickle blog has a boatload of photos of SoCal customs and the shops that churned them out in the 1950s. Perhaps it’s time to create another Google Map to determine the kustom hotspots in SoCal?

Rat rod ragout

Автор: RaymondLilly | четверг, 3 сентября 2009 г.

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Couple of weeks ago, we were at Rhinebeck and before the rains came down, spotted this interesting piece. The owner called it a 1946 Chevrolet pickup. Yep, we get it. It’s also the most unconventional pre-Advance Design truck-em-up treatment we’ve seen in a millenium or so.

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Yes, that’s a Hemi, the first-gen variety, with that bulbous air cleaner that Genghis Khan could have pressed into service as a party hat. Some interior there, indeed, all oxidized nicely and by all indications, mostly GM-sourced. Peter Duvalools of Saugerties, New York, gets the creator credit. Just had a thought: Is rat rodding the Unseen Hand’s answer to HGTV?

Bill Burke bellytank re-creation under way

Автор: RaymondLilly | пятница, 7 августа 2009 г.

Bill Burke bellytank streamliner

In today’s Hemmings e-Weekly Newsletter, you’ll read about the recently started effort by Geoff Hacker to re-create Bill Burke’s very first bellytank dry lakes racer, a front-engined junkyard-sourced P-51-bodied vehicle worth 131.96 MPH in 1946 (sitting on a bicycle seat welded to the torque tube, no less!). Bill would go on to build many more bellytankers, and his first was short-lived in his pursuit for greater speed, but it still remains significant in the hot rod world, so Geoff has decided to replicate it using the bellytank he picked up in California (the one on top of his Suburban in an earlier post here). To do so, he’s assembled a collection of historical images of the first Burke bellytanker.

Bill Burke bellytank streamliner