Have you looked at Jim And Chester's Garage Tumblr lately? Wow, it's a lot better! I haven't looked in over a year (been kinda busy you'll probably agree)

 What a photo, Motion perfrmance, Shelby Dragonsnake, and Sun tuneup

 I don't think I ever posted about the Police edition of the Javelin 401 that Alabama put to use for a while.

 Walt and Art Arfons, land speed icons

 Randy Walls, San Diego local who brings his Nova Flopper to the local cruises

 Amazing dealership photo... Boss 429, Cobra Torino, Boss 302

 field find 61

 1964 Worlds Fair Ford display of the Comet

 James Garner racing team Lola's

 Dick Smothers and Linda Vaughn

 '64 Competition Vette

 Astra bodied blown modified

 Dan Blocker's Vinegaroon special

 Motorama specials getting offloaded

 1955 photo of a Packard and it's loaded trailer of hydroplanes.. that is a rare sight

 Pinin Farina bodied Nash Palm Beach

 Above is a rare car, the Scaglietti Corvette... Italian design beauty, cheap and easy to find Chevy parts

these are just a sample of the cool images at http://prova275.tumblr.com/

the 1903 Packard Gray Wolf, because extraordinary race cars that achieve land speed records were named and famous, once upon a time

photos from http://theoldmotor.com/

read about (and see a gallery of the modern recreation of the race car that broke Wintons land speed record for the 5 mile course at Daytona Beach at http://www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/z15142/Packard-Model-K-S-Gray-Wolf.aspx

a glimpse of Gordon Bennett trophy racing in 1904

Coincidentally http://theoldmotor.com/ just posted about the 1904 Gordon Bennett Napier racecar at http://theoldmotor.com/?p=26434

and also filled us in on the background of the GB Cup Race: James Gordon Bennett, the wealthy owner of the New York Herald newspaper in 1900 organized a race between teams, each representing their national automobile club. This for several years was the most important race of the year. The race was driven on public roads in the country of the previous winner. In 1902 the Gordon Bennett Trophy won by a British Napier. Auto Racing was not allowed on public roads in Great Britain, and the 1903 race was held in Ireland. Napier’s cars were painted green for this race, the national color of Ireland, in honor of the host country. Napier was as a result the first car that was painted in what we now refer to as “British Racing Green”.


found on http://books.google.com/books?id=zHnVAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA544&dq=belgian++pipe&hl=en&ei=PchGTpqyGMapsAKPnrSSCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=book-thumbnail&resnum=1&ved=0CCsQ6wEwAA#v=onepage&q=belgian%20%20pipe&f=false

hodge podge of autos that caught my attention

 I missed noting on this photo what this car is. But Greg identified it as a 'Duesenberg Model J'

 Billie Burke in San Francisco's Presidio Park drving her Studebaker

 Century

 Dodge... with a chauffer? In a Dodge? Really?

 Henry Ford in his first automobile

 Franklin

 1927 Holland Tunnel in New York

 New York hot dog stand 1935 in Manhattan

 a safety idea that didn't stick

 1909 flight of the Wright brothers... but look at the elegant horse carriage

 Lady Astor, a parliament member in  England and her Terraplane

 a Packard 12, 7 passenger limo

 Panhard and Levassor

 Regal

 This Supercharged Graham 120 won over 4 other v8 autos in a contest to win the favor of this fire dept chief

 REO Flying Cloud

 The first Oldsmobile, 1896

A Winton stripped down for racing

all found while browsing through http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/