Showing posts with label rare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rare. Show all posts

A Pontiac might be the rarest muscle car in existence

a one-of-one Canadian built Pontiac Parisienne Safari six-passenger station wagon powered by a 425-horsepower dual quad 409. I read about it in the Dec 2009 Musclecar Enthusiast magazine, but the same info from that author is here: http://www.automotivetraveler.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=821&Itemid=345

Woodys with stories

Surfer Girl, the only known Mercury Model 114 woody

Fun floor mat These hand painted accents are all fading differently

One of less than a dozen known Packard Station Wagons, the best of the known restored ones, a 1940 Packard 110

the only 1962 Pontiac Catalina Bubbletop made for Mickey Thompson, by Pontiac Developmental

Photographed at the Pontiac Oakland national convention (thanks Dave!) is the only bubble top 1962 Catalina. Its also seen here: http://chrysler300country.com/pontiac_389_super_duty_2.htm Just prior to the September 1961 NHRA Nationals at Indianapolis, Pontiac introduced a new 421 cubic inch engine rated at a ridiculously low 373 horsepower. The only people who could get them were the Mickey

Did you know Ed Roth made a record or two? Rods and Ratfinks was the album

The song Ed sang was "Rods and Ratfinks"- under the name Mr. Gasser and The Weirdos They weren't really Gary Usher projects, but he did sing background vocals and the music was by Hal Blaine, Jerry Cole & Peter and Bob Klimes, produced by Jim Economides. There is a double CD that came out in 1995 on One Way Records that collects them all. INFO via: http://bomplist.xnet2.com/0007/msg01499.

Something I bet the Shelby collectors have never heard of... the 33 1/3 rpm record of Carroll and a GT 500 racing around Riverside, in a model kit car

Bizarre stuff

1939 antarctic special cruiser Ron Elizada with a 1962 Willys zip van, after a tour as a mail delivery van in Anaheim in 1974. the 1956 Dodge La Femme the Futureliner exhibit and rolling display bus 1946 Detroit golden Jubilee Buick parade floatVia: http://svammelsurium.blogg.se/

A variety of cool vehicles and stuff I wanted to show you that I got from Svammelsurium.blogg.se

1939 Labourdette Rolls Royce Phantom 1969 Mercury Cyclone Gt 500 ( it's the first and only time I've ever heard of it) A Divco dairy truck from Garden Grove the ELC10 made by GM in Stockholm during WW2, electric powered Good looking to me, and one of the later Edsels. Already doomed by the first run, but they did get a couple good looking designs before they were killed off. Marten commented that

Once there was a guy who lost his mind and tried to make a car that was the safest thing on the road... and this is how ridiculous it ended up looking

1956-57 Cornell Aurora and Liberty safety cars Via: http://svammelsurium.blogg.se/

Rare and unusual cool vehicles

1899 Hautier 1908 Delaunay Belleville Tourer 1911 Aberdonia Park Royal Landau 1912 Opel Coupe Special "The Egg" 1913 Peugeot Type 150 labourdette1935 Auburn 851 Supercharged speedster 1937 Adler Autobahn 1939 Pontiac transparent exhibit for the marvels of the new invention "Acrylic" 1944 Minneapolis Moline Udxl prototype jeep for us military contract proposal 1948 Jp Wimille 1951 Ghia Exner

rare mustangs I've never heard of, and a couple that are really cool that I have

Cobra prototype Shelby Europa Limited Edition 600 (above Groovy Green) and below, Flower Power Red Eckstrand's exhibition for the USO tour Lawman 1972 Sprintvia: http://svammelsurium.blogg.se/

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