Automobiles and art posters, the story of the week at the Motorcities.org website

read about these at http://www.motorcities.org/Story+of+the+Week.html?utm_source=MotorCities+Newsletter+Vol.+3+Issue+8&utm_campaign=You+Auto+Know+Newsletter&utm_medium=email

For more vintage posters, you can browse through the "Art" label tag.. they are in there somewhere

1936 Delahaye 135 Sport with Ostrich leather and fitted luggage at the Desert Classic Concours D'Elegance at the Westin Mission Hills in Palm Springs, it is a multiple 100 point winner, and was a cover car for Robb Report magazine

"Cars 2" movie from Pixar/Disney had a lot of small details of conversion to automotive looking architecture

 they call it Big Bentley in the movie

 They were right smart to label it Holden

 Leave Spring under the above bridge, and replacing the cables in the London Bridge below

 through out the movie you'll see statues of cars instead of people

 I totally dig the wire wheel in the Eiffel tower, could be based on Kelsey Hayes, but who knows

 the side of the Notre Dame looks like an exhaust header

 A valve cover topping the Arc De Triumphe

 a piston for an elevator

 A Boyce Motormeter in the above building

 the light shade looks like an type of engine

I didn't see all of these the first time or the second time I watched the movie... but I saw a lot of them, and found the rest when looking for them specifically for this post

Best video and interview of Randy Grubb (Blastolene Brother) artist / maker of the Deco Liner

this is a 15 minute video, and I can't wait to see if the Pulse Jet bellytanker gets to El Mirage. What am I talking about? The interview happened when a pulse jet expert was at Randy's, and they seem to have collaborated on a bellytanker with a pulse jet the power equivalent of the V1 rocket

Found on  http://karamelocycles.blogspot.com/2012/01/blastolene-story-tuned.html

to see the gallery I posted from the Long Beach Autorama: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/10/blastolene-brothers-invent-again-randy.html

More cool photos found on SwissStache Tumblr

found on http://swissstash.tumblr.com/

1937, 1949, and 1951 Delahaye models at the Mullin Museum... from elegant French curves to subdued more contemporary design

 

the most beautiful piece of wood work I've seen in car