Marx Barry of Woodbury, Minnesota, is a talented tattoo artist and a passionate hot rodder who is responsible for the slick sedan you see before you. Though he has 16 years of slinging ink behind him, tattooing was not his original calling. Marx spent a number of years as a graphic artist, but found himself getting burned out, so he walked away from it and spent a couple of years trying to figure out what he wanted to do. The opportunity to begin tattooing literally fell in his lap as he was getting tattooed himself and the shop doing the…
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Some cars are destined to define a decade. Here’s rare factory footage of two 1951 General Motors dream cars in action: The GM LeSabre and the Buick XP-300. Both cars were the result of a long-term cooperative activity involving the General Motors Styling Section and the Buick Motor Division Engineering Staff. There was a time when the people who ran car companies were genuine automotive enthusiasts. Harley J. Earl and Charles A. Chayne were two of those enthusiasts whose passion for beautiful cars led to the creation of the Buick XP-300 (originally labeled XP-9) and LeSabre (originally labeled XP-8), true…
Ernie Adams from Maricopa, Arizona, is known as “Mr. Dwarf Car.” Ernie’s Dwarf Cars, as the name suggest, are smaller versions of some of the classic American cars from the 1940’s. These cars are real, working machines and are street legal, complete with lights, signals, gauges, and everything a “real” car has. Ernie has built 7 of these dwarf cars, by hand; he even made the tools to make these cars. He built all of these cars from scratch. Pretty amazing. The ’49 Mercury is an all time American favorite, made popular by James Dean’s movie, “Rebel Without A Cause.”…
The 1960 Ford Falcon is dog slow today. But it was perfect in 1960. Let Mr. Regular explain… This is a 1960 Ford Falcon with the original 144ci (2.4L) straight six engine. For the younger crowd, this engine configuration sounds pretty good. What follows is a conversation I recently had about the1960 Ford Falcon that I just purchased:–Youth: Oh, a 2.4L straight six. That must have a short stroke, right?Mr. Regular: Yea, small pistons, they move up and down easy!Y: Double overhead cam?Mr. R: No.Y: Single overhead cam?Mr. R: No. The only thing that is overhead is the valves.Y: That sucks. Well, it’s…
Here’s some angsty display of presence. If you’re thinking of knowledge, experience and dominion combined, they are all embodied in one single car. The Ford Model B of 1932, or more popularly known as the 1933 Ford Coupe, is one of the rarest yet most desired roadster car among Hot Rodders. Since the conception of this kind in the market, impassioned Hot Rodders have never gotten enough of it – even to this day. With its V8 engine – marketed as the “Model 18” in the 30’s – and more refined style, the 1933 Ford Coupe has become the most…
The ’69 Camaro through the years has proved itself to be the most popular of all the model years it was built. And when you think about it, the high sales came quite by accident. The ’70 Camaro, a new design, just wasn’t ready on time, so the ’69 continued to be produced til the end of the year. Little did anybody at the time realize what a classic it would become many decades in the future. What was created was a classic that today draws huge money in national auctions. A number of reasons exist for that popularity, possibly the…
Additional strange structures and complexes have been discovered on the Moon. According to several experts, the features of the structures around the craters are particularly distinctive and stand out against the lunar landscape. For further information, watch the video below and let us know what you think in the comments.
Franklin Story Musgrave, M.D. (born August 19, 1935) is an American physician and a retired NASA astronaut. Over 84 years of his life, a man managed to visit space, serve in the marines, work as a field doctor and engineer, become a mathematician and receive six academic degrees. Franklin has six space flights. During the missions, the man managed to see a lot. Recently, the astronaut told the media that he saw huge UFOs. Outwardly, the ships of the aliens resembled a large writhing snake. The undulating movements of the UFO were mesmerizing. The aliens flew after the spaceship of…
Traveling faster than light is an inevitable longing for the human species, which aspires to expand through the cosmos. But in reality, if we think about it, light moves very slowly compared to the immense scales of the universe: Earthlings would have to wait more than four years for a ship travelling at the speed of light to reach the closest stars, and 25,000 years to get to the nearest galaxy, Canis Major Dwarf. Civilizations that do not have the technology to travel through space by creating electromagnetic fields around their ships cannot visit the solar system. Director of the…
Son Dunga is the largest cave in the world. Located on the border between Laos and Vietnam.In 2013, the cave is open for tourists. Since then, many visitors claim to have seen the terrifying creatures – humanoids with skin of reptiles that resemble demons of mythology. There is also a case of a missing person who is not yet open.Before 2013, a number of researchers have illegally entered the cave and many of them tell of encounters with monsters that describe the same. The man who discovered the cave in 1992, says Ho Kang. He had met face to face…
Sold for $3,415,000 at 2022 RM Sothebys : Arizona. Brothers Fred and August Duesenberg were born in Germany and settled in Des Moines, Iowa. They were self-taught engineers and began producing cars in 1913. Eddie Rickenbacker placed 10th in the 1914 Indianapolis 500 behind the wheel of a Duesenberg. In 1921, Jimmy Murphy was the first American to win the French Grand Prix, also driving a Duesenberg. The company moved to Indianapolis, Indian in 1919 and eventually settled in Auburn, Indiana after being purchased by E.L. Cord. The Model J was the result of over two years of work by…
Roscoe Hoffman was an inventor, an experimenter, and a man-about-the-auto-industry in Detroit, and this car incorporates many of his unique ideas. He had friends in very top leadership levels of all the major car companies and did a lot of their contract work. His specialty was chassis and suspension engineering. There is no written history on how the Hoffman X-8 came to be but there are a couple of theories connecting to either Henry Ford or the Fisher Brothers. A contract does exist from the early thirties from a Fisher-owned business contracting Hoffman to build two rear engine prototypes. It…