Showing posts with label Steve McQueen Car Show. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Steve McQueen Car Show. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

the 1964 Triumph ridden by Bud Ekins





Bikes aren't highly interesting to me, but seeing the innovative things people have done to them for racing makes me very excited

Monday, June 9, 2014

the 1st car in Nascar over 200mph, Buddy Baker's Daytona, still very original, even has the original slicks























not a vinyl top, a spackle spray. You know that the dimples on a golf ball make it more aerodynamic, right? So does the texture of the vinyl top and this spackle spray. Some racer (probably Smokey Yunick or other risky Nascar car owner) tried the dimple treatment to their car once... just once. Nascar immediately outlawed the dimple treatment





the tires are coated with silicone on the inside to allow them to hold air






Far out display to let people know the Boys Republic is having the annual car show, the Bugatti from the movie Elysium

Handmade trophys from Boys Republic for the annual friends of Steve McQueen car show

Motorcyke. Yes, I spelled it correctly, the same way Harley Davidson did on these roughly 100 year old bicycles













Notice how the seat stem is reverse-able? Perhaps these are different stems, etc, but the concept of a reversible stem for the change of leg length is pretty cool