Most outstanding car at the Bugstock 2012 was built by Jose's Auto Service, Inglewood Ca. ( Bugstock is annually at the Orange county fairgrounds)

Rare items like this Everready Battery Company ammeter are amazing to find at a swap meet, but it's incredible to find 2

The Valentino Indian was at the Desert Classic Concours, and I noticed the frosted glass art in the wind wings this time

very cool and extremely rare tungsten spark plugs still in the tin cans, and marked Ford

Things I had to take home with me from the swapmeet. Doesn't being at a swapmeet make you realize you have to buy at least one thing that is cool, but you don't need?

 Hell no I am not going to work on Carter carbs, but I couldn't pass on this tool set for 20 bucks.

 I've never heard of Marvel Mystery Oil Company making anything but oil... so this had to find a home in my garage for 10 bucks

Starett is high quality, and this is accurate to one thousandth of an inch. Perfect for 20 bucks

Whitworth tool find at the annual Big 3 spring Swap Meet, at Qualcomm (still going to be there tomorrrow if you can make it)

 All of these are at R H Parkers Garage, and it's under a large long grey canopy, about 10 rows from the North side of the Qualcomm parking lot

 This set is unusually helpful in that it has both Whitworth and British Standard sizes marked

 The Dowidat set is a German company, and good tools, I have a set of metric combo wrenches from Dowidatt

but the big score waiting for someone is this Bluepoint tap and die set, it's Whitworth. Only tap set for Whitworth I've ever heard of, a mechanics necessity

Have fun with life, invent something crazy and fun... and inspiring

found on http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2012/02/11/four-links-different-kind-of-tribute-car-intercoast-t2-boattail-rollses-humphreys-controlled-compression-engine/

The handmade speedometer update!

his website is http://www.edfox.com/

the magazine is http://www.airmighty.com/ and I can't find a better image of this page yet... nothing legible so far. 

the updated post with info is here: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2012/01/coolest-things-i-found-at-2012-grand.html

the VW it resides in is pretty cool looking too!

What you did not know about the 1956 SR2 Corvette SS

The SR-2 (Sebring Racer) designation was given to three 1956 Corvettes. All of them left the factory as stock Corvettes, and were shipped to GM styling in Warren, MI for race modifications and cosmetic additions. This is the first of the three. In the spring of 1956, it was a known fact that the GM Head of the Styling Studio, Harley Earl, had a son Jerry who road raced a Ferrari. Management told dad he should be racing a GM car. Harley made a deal with his son: “If you sell the Ferrari, I will build you a special Corvette to race.”

This car, #2522, had the highest priority with no cost spared. Work began in May ’56 modifying the body, brakes and suspension. Special windscreens were installed for driver and passenger. The parking lights were removed allowing air to flow for front brake cooling. Fifty-five years ago this weekend, Earl debuted his SR-2 at Road America in Elkhart Lake, WI. Dr. Dick Thompson completed the six hour race with a respectable finish. Jerry Earl continued to race the SR-2 throughout the 56-57 seasons and sold the car in 1958 to Jim Jeffords. National race champion Jeffords painted the car purple to match the moniker, “Purple People Eater,” named after the 1958 song by Sheb Wooley.

Found on http://www.bloomingtongold.com/inc.php?link=greathallcars

Similar to an Excalibur (ugly) but of unknown exact manufacture, the Valentino Indian

 The woman in blue owns it, wants to sell, and says it was made for a Rudy Valentino movie... but had nothing to show this to be factual.

My guess is that it's a late 1960's one off, made by someone who liked the Excalibur, and the rest is a sales ploy. 

Twin 1937 Boattail Rolls Royces with a story were at the Grand National Roadster Show.. you can never predict what cool stuff you'll see!

 Both built in 1937, one was donated to the war effort and was rebodied to be a Ambulance, the other found it's way to Puerto Rico and became termite food

these won the people's choice award at the Art Center car show

Indian Ben's "Scary Fast" Creeper Seat Racer