Rolls Royce bar... well, sometimes you can only save parts of a nice car

found on http://www.bentleyspotting.com/2011/05/rolls-royce-bar.html via http://stipistop.com/

Morris Minor hubcap guitar and Seasick Steve on Top Gear, cut to minute 5:50

And if you are impressed with his bit of music, you'll be blown away with waht he can do with a one string diddley-bow. A 2x4 and and amp, that's about it. He's got the music in him, and that is all he needs.

miniature model diorama from May, in Madrid... incredible detail

to see the ingenuity step by step of assembling this: http://mayenelpaisdenuncajamas.blogspot.com/

Amazing... a visual effect of animation by matching the speed of an object to the speed a camera records, to simulate animation

The Cyclotrope Created and animated by Tim Wheatley

Found on http://goawaygarage.blogspot.com

Earl's BMW Z4 artwork. Spectacular piece of rolling artwork

This side shows Santa Barbara, and the other side shows Willow Springs. In the above, I just dig how the sun is represented by the BMW badge surrounded by orange, yellow and red. Beautiful




Can you make out the oil cap? Its next to the red stripes. Very cool that certain underhood parts are painted into the painting on the hood, like the throttle bodies and vortec supercharger

Ain't that awesome? The grey ribbon represents the racetrack at Willow Springs



you can start learning about the art on the car at http://www.myartcar.com/theconcept.html and for more, read http://www.myartcar.com/indetail.html because to learn what the details are, and where and why, is truly amazing.

The most interesting signs, awards, and petroliana I found at the Mendenhall Museum in Buellton

The above is the art work of Pete Millar, and is actually an ad for Isky Cams























I've never heard of the Pontiac Trail




I wish I knew the story of how this cop car door left the cop car, and became a wall ornament for it's life after law enforcement

Cool mileage map








Biggest Sun test bench I've seen













a Mickey Thompson timing tag, wow
Amazing, how did any paper souvenirs last?
Awesome that Vice Grip was giving out trophys, and this is the first I've seen
The above roadster was hand carved



all of these are only a small fraction of the cool stuff at the Mendenhall Museum of Petroliana in Buellton Ca, just about 30 minutes North of Santa Barbara http://www.mendenhallmuseum.com