World Premier of a hot rod movie, Deuce of Spades, Sun Nov 14th, Fillmore in Ventura county

http://www.deuceofspadesmovie.com/

Bringing the 50's back for a huge 50's bash to celebrate the world premiere of the highly anticipated hot rod period film "Deuce of Spades"
Featuring guest stars Gene Winfield and Bill Hines

Event includes: hot rod run to the event location - red carpet world premiere held at the oldest running theater int he country

Hot rods and classic cars show in main street in front of the theater

Meal served on authentic 1950 train (depicted in the film) at historical train station

Bands from the film performing doo-wop, 50's rock and rockabilly

Swing dancing demonstrations by world top dancers - open swing dancing for all

World renowned hot rod artist Tom Fritz painting exhibit - and more

All this in a setting right out of the fifties!

All participants to dress fifties style that day please. Event starts at non and ends at 8pm. Location: historic downtown Fillmore in Ventura County

Ticket price of only $35 dollars includes everything!! Get VIP parking for your car for an additional $15

Tickets go on sale 10/28 and will sell out very fast.

Keep a close eye on the website where they will become available for purchase
http://www.deuceofspadesmovie.com/

Old (1930's) race car transporter, and really old (1922) race car transporter

Photo taken in 1922, hard rubber tire Scammel hauling Sunbeam racecar... bumpy ride on old country cobblestones

Not sure which site I borrowed the top photo from, probably http://5window.tumbler.com/
, the bottom one was http://www.retrorides.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=readersrides&action=display&thread=84662&page=1

Rare duece type 18 with a custom coach-built cabriolet body

The car varies from the American-made convertible sedan styles; the top has no side rails to slide on.

The car was originally purchased by a high-profile German official. In 1938 or 1939, the car was hidden, actually walled up in a basement in Austria, to prevent military confiscation. In 1947, the car was shipped to England. It arrived stateside in 1964, as the possession of a Wisconsin antique dealer. From there, it was sold to the current owner in Jacksonville.

The bodywork is from Deutsch of Koln, the chassis assembled by the Ford Werks A.G. Koln. Unusual features abound such as an underhood siren, dual flag shafts, a Bosch driving light and spotlight, and trafficators. This is the only known example by this coachbuilder and one of five German-built convertibles known.

Former Staff Car for the Third Reich. Owner was a non-Nazi and hid the car from confiscation by the German Army.

The car has all of its original parts, with the exception of the engine (now correct) that was lost during long ago restoration. There are currently only seven of this body type known in the World.

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=397594&page=61

barn find duece

This 1932 Ford coupe was bought in 1951 and parked in this garage in 1959. The owner, now 77 years old (so he was born exactly in 1932, looks at coincidence) gave up trying to restore the car one day and decided - thankfully - sell it. That was the first person to come in this garage since 1959, exactly 50 years later.

Check out Nik's blog for the whole story, and lots of other cool car stuff! http://carrosantigos.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/mais-um-deuce-coupe-50-anos-depois/

the USA At Last hot rod from "Mr Hobbs Takes a Vacation"

Anyone know what the story is about this roadster?

your paint is incredibly good to reflect the next car this perfectly

cool things found at Greyhandgang.com

What do you think, an airport runway snow melter?

Buckminster Fuller and a Dymaxion

Cuban taxi's.... aren't they awesome! Looks like a 55 Ford and a 53 Chev. I'd take a ride in these over a modern taxi, damn right I would

I'm not sure, but it looks like the trans-arctic vehicle

A street car used to build artificial reefs

The Vereycken Diwheel 1947 and you can read more about it http://douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/TRANSPORT/diwheel/diwheel.htm

The Munsters coach it looks like, it is on Santa Monica Blvd, and it's 1964

An Autogyro over New York

a photo of the Blitzen Benz I haven't seen before

looks like El Mirage

What an Americana moment, the purple car is a Studebaker Commander I think

via: http://www.greyhandgang.com/

"The Road to Bonneville" DVD ! Cool !

Watched it, thouroughly enjoyed it! The Rolling Bones "Wicked Sisters" on a road trip from New York state to Bonneville, and we get to watch and enjoy instead of roadside repair the headgasket that blew.... now I'm all for a bonding experience that you get to relive forever as a great story of how you had to wrench on the roadside with only a flashlight to illuminate the process, but it's pretty cool to just watch from the couch as a couple of hot rodders cruise cross country to hot rod racing mecca, Bonneville.

All the drama and time limit builds on reality TV frustrate, this documentary doesn't!

It's cool just to catch a look at a couple hot rodders driving dueces, and delivering their B'ville ready race '32 to tech inspection. I was surprised at what it takes to pass tech, so the movie is informative on that aspect, as well as who and what Rolling Bones is without having to read the magazine articles (you know I just look at the pictures right?!) Another film by AtomicHotRods is Devil at Your Feet, and I'll fill you in on that in a later post, so check back!

The soundtrack is music from Electric Frankenstein http://www.electricfrankenstein.com/ and in the extra's on the DVD you can just close your eyes, turn up the volume and enjoy a flathead rapping away

Order one here: http://www.amazon.com/Road-Bonneville-Brian-Darwas/dp/B001HL31BG

Also, DVD's can be purchased and a trailer can be viewed online at:
www.AtomicHotRods.com or by mail, $24.95 + $4.50 for shipping (Foreign/ Non-U.S. orders add an additional $2.50 to cover shipping)
Payable in U.S. Funds to:
Brian Darwas - P.O. Box 467 - New York, NY 10461

Film Credits:
- Director: Brian Darwas
- Shot, Edited, and Produced by: Brian Darwas
- Executive Producer: Jennifer Carchietta
- Starring: The Rolling Bones, Ken Schmidt and Keith Cornell

If you think I've posted one of these dueces before, so did I, but it was another they must have built for a customer: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/11/cool-stuff-that-caught-my-attention-at.html

The variety of cool things that caught my eye at Goodguys

If there is a race for barstools (I remember seeing one somewhere) it's going to be won by this 302 cu in driven stool... must be a life changing experience to go wide open throttle!

I dig the chopped Mercury lettering, I've never seen anyone do that before