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Thursday, April 26, 2012

Romeo Palamides slingshot, George Barris featured it in Car Craft in 1958, back when he wrote and photographed for the Peterson Publishing company, and called it the "World's most beautiful slingsot"

Winner of the Oakland Roadster Show 9 foot tall trophy for most beautiful competition car

Sunday, April 22, 2012

"The New Soft Touch Airbag" dragster from the Mopars at the Strip LVMS pits area

Seriously grabbed my atttention as I walked by. I wasn't even looking at this racecar until I spotted this airbrushing. That is a damn cool way to get attention!

look at the side and front profile on this car... one slick aerodynamic design.

a small mailbox indicator to let the driver know the scoop is plugged

real headlights, not airbrushed onto the hood!

The driver, nice guy on the left, let me pop my head into the car while he warmed it up and take photos.

In the staging lanes at the LVMS, during Mopars at the Strip

Awesome headlights

Plexiglass over the grill to get rid of the parachute effect, cowl induction to make use of the high pressure area in front of the windshield. Doing what works best, not what Chrysler engineers and designers had to do to get cars made

This is a Charger. Not the Dukes of Hazzard one we all are too aware of, this is the Shelby variety. Shelby never worked with Mopar in the musclecar era, he waited til the late 80's and the Turbo era

The above is the inspiration for so many people to airbrush rivets and aluminum panels onto their cars, but the above... it's the real deal fuel door and super big wing. Park bench size for Pete's sake. You could use it for having lunch on between rounds down the dragstrip. I love this hobby, Mopars, and drag racing. This car really puts it all in one. You could find nirvana on the exhaust fumes from the Sunoco 110 alone.