Showing posts with label Tbird. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tbird. Show all posts

Friday, March 2, 2012

Sarah's mom was a car nut! Here she is tinkering with her 57 T-bird, but wait til you read about the Duesenburg!

ok, not a posed photo, and I bet someone got slugged for taking a picture of her butt in the air... but a cool photo.

Get the rest of the story though, Sarah's mom bought her a Model A and started restoring it for her, around 1967, tore it apart and was getting progress made, joined the Model A club and had a great time, and then her husband died.

Sarah says the hobby probably helped her cope, and in her own words "Oh yeah she bought a Duesenberg with leather straps over the engine for $200 that was in somebody's shed, but sold it for $700. I would go with Mamma to the junkyards and was her 'spotter' for old cars, I was taller than she was...She kept saying she must have been crazy to buy it, but she had always wanted a Duesenberg like Dolores del Rio.

Yup she was pretty awesome 
"


wow. That has to be the only Duesy bought and sold by a mom who was into old cars. Who ever heard of another? 

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

A couple famous faces and the cars they drove found on SwissStache tumblr

Frank SDinatra driving a car with dealership plates... I wonder why

 Jimi Hendrix looks like he's posing in a dealership showroom

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Autobooks - Aerobooks in Burbank... the magazine and bookstore for hot rodders

 There are donuts behind the crowd in this top photo... lots of bench racing going on


 Lots of the old issues of Rodders Journal! Only 15 bucks a piece, I don't know where you can possibly find them for less (if anyone knows, let me know! jbohjkl@yahoo.com)
 Lots of the new books that you ought to get a look at to see what needs to come home with you

 They have old issues of lots of magazines too (bottom section)



 Street Rod Premiere is there! I bought the new issue because I can't find it anywhere... they even carry Hagerty Magazine!

 The issues of Church are all there, plus nearly every other magazine you've liked, heard of, and wanted











For a cool gallery of this Shelby GT 500 and the bookstore: http://justacargal.blogspot.com/2011/12/mullin-museum.html

http://autobooks-aerobooks.com/ is their website to see whats new, address and hours