cool things found at Greyhandgang.com

What do you think, an airport runway snow melter?

Buckminster Fuller and a Dymaxion

Cuban taxi's.... aren't they awesome! Looks like a 55 Ford and a 53 Chev. I'd take a ride in these over a modern taxi, damn right I would

I'm not sure, but it looks like the trans-arctic vehicle

A street car used to build artificial reefs

The Vereycken Diwheel 1947 and you can read more about it http://douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/TRANSPORT/diwheel/diwheel.htm

The Munsters coach it looks like, it is on Santa Monica Blvd, and it's 1964

An Autogyro over New York

a photo of the Blitzen Benz I haven't seen before

looks like El Mirage

What an Americana moment, the purple car is a Studebaker Commander I think

via: http://www.greyhandgang.com/

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Comedic use of automobiles in silent movies

Above Buster Keaton enacts a common concept that a Model T had to be put down like a horse when it's useful life was over, because like a horse, it was all give and no take, all heart.

1929 and 1924

the wheel chair has an attached power wheel, looks like something I just watched on the History channel show "American Pickers" an interesting show I like to try to catch. Also similar to the Briggs and Stratton motor wheel

For a timeline of power wheels and powered bicycles: http://www.mopedarmy.com/wiki/Motorized_Bicycle

Photos via: http://fantomatik75.blogspot.com/

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"My Mother the Car" the car was made by Norm Grabowski or Barris?

Premiering in 1965, what may be the strangest sitcom of all time is a reminder that borderline brain-dead TV executives have been with us for decades — and deserve no say in the big-budget boardroom. Jerry Van Dyke played a man who discovers that his mother's soul has been reincarnated in his automobile, enabling him to hear her voice through the radio http://www.esquire.com/the-side/feature/worst-tv-shows-100109

Hot Rod Deluxe, May 2010 issue page 69 says Norm made it, and it was owned by Kaye Trapp, Hollywood studio photographer who used it as a push car for the Zueschel, Fuller, and Moody dragster

But according to http://local.aaca.org/junior/starcars/mother.htm Barris built the car; The car's body (finished in Metalflake carnation red with a white top) was made up from various vehicles including a Model T Ford, a Maxwell (precursor to the Chrysler), a Hudson, and pieces of a Chevrolet, including drive train. The car had a custom-made hood and radiator shell.
2 were made, one is at http://starcarstn.com/index.html in Tennessee along with a lot of other cool cars like the Munsters Dragula, and a collection of Barris customs




The video is badly editted news shorts from a local tv station perhaps... it seems like it once had commercials, only the first half is really worth watching

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