The garage of earthly delights

[hirez]

(Via bOing^2 and Coop)

Some tractor-puller with more Sherman engines than he knows what to do with builds one into a Mustang. An all-ally 1100 cubic inch plant that's coming out not much heavier than a blown Hemi...

Especially choice is the Youtube link to someone else's Sherman motor. Now that's Industrial music.

[ http://www.amazon.com/Death-Traps-Survival-American-Division/dp/0891418148 ]

Comments

Re: The Garage of Earthly Delights

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I must admit that I would have expected someone else to come up with such a phrase.

I could also continue the car-spodding and say 'I'm quite fond of their fuel-injection systems myself'

Instead, though: Yes. I have to say I'm not surprised. How are you on Robert Williams?

Robert Williams

[noondaydemon.livejournal.com]

Love hotrod art. I used to work at a truck spraypainting place back in Oz where the idea was that I'd take over from the chief airbrush artist when she left (bulldogs, leopards, nekkid women etc). Alas, I ripped a shoulder muscle and found it difficult to carry out my tasks:-( I have since painted on musical instruments - guitar bodies mainly - but have yet to bung some flames up the sides of a ve-hickle.

Re: Robert Williams

[hirez.livejournal.com]

At one point, I was going to dazzle-paint the old 9000 because it's battleship grey and, well, just because. Now it's shagged beyond repair and the replacement's vaguely maroon. I don't know what you'd do to a Saab that wouldn't have the owner's club round your house with pitchforks and burning torches.

Saab and What to Do with IT

[noondaydemon.livejournal.com]

God bless Great Britain, but it don't seem to be the haven of hoon cars:-( I feel that a Saab would benefit from soggy-chip-skyscrapers and natty little design-bureau doodles neatly bisecting go-faster '70's yellow, white and orange narrow stripes? Sometimes my fondness for kitsch runs waaaaay away with me....

Re: Saab and What to Do with IT

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Quite. There's yer traditional old Fords that end up looking like seventies US kit that's shrunk, purple-metalflake shopping trolleys and, um, that's it.