Life magazine gallery of Norm Grabowski at the Bob's Big Boy in Burbank 1957

in the below photo just above Norm's left shoulder is Dean Jeffries Porsche points out Michael (http://magneticbrain.blogspot.com/)

Source LIFE magazine archives

Donald Duck was a hot rodder!

Borrowed entirely from http://lowtechblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/donald-was-hot-rodder.html and Lowtech is heavy with roadsters and pre-1960's oldschool hot rods

The sculptures of J Nesse... oh wow! Here are a couple, go to his website for lots more!

http://nessesculpture.com/ and then look over the hot rods... wow!

I just went through the Grand National Roadster Show, it's great! It's a lot like a Good Guys show crossed with SEMA

A few cars you don't want to miss;
the '36 Auburn of James Hetfield, the Moonliner and Mooneyes Dragster, the triple nickel 555, Boyd's French Connection, Mr Norm's Demon (old and new) plus the 3 other new Mr Norms retro vehicles, Poteets Miller hauler Special, Hollywood Hot Rods Platinum Bomb and I think 2 other HHR cars, the 1910 Selden ( winner of the 1998 Great American Race, the 1920 Packard Indy car (winner of the 1991 Great American Race) a Reventlow Scarab, the Bartoletti Grand Prix race car transporter, the Glass Slipper, 3 Bean Bandit race cars, El Cid.. the dragster AC Cobra, the Atomic Punk bubble top Roth tribute, and others that I can't recall right now.

Lots of pinstripers, about a dozen, lots of artists with paintings and sculptures to sell, about 3 dozen... so bring money. Prices on the vendor stuff like beer, popcorn and kettle corn, soft serve etc is overpriced like a county fair, like that's not unexpected at anything we go to anymore. I'll happily leave a venue instead of wasting money a minute away from real prices.

This is a shot fromt he Bldg 3 hall of magazine cover cars, in this collection are the Pete and Jake 4 roadsters, the Kookie T replica of Norm Grabowski 's, the Mullen Roadster, and about 2 dozen more
You will want to park in the Red (far right area) off McKinley Ave... it's cheaper than the $25 I paid for the Preferred Parking (I was fed up with trying to find the place and running late)

To get there from South of LA or East of Pomona, I used the 15 North to the 1o West, get off at the Fairplex exit, head north from the 10 for about a mile, it stops at a light on the intersection with McKinley, head East (right) for about 3 miles or so, past many numbered gates

Like photography of Bonneville racers? Here's something cool, helpful, and makes me feel better about car guys... Alex is helping a friend

Fellow blogger and photographer Alex Maldonaldo has started an initiative to help out his friend who was diagnosed Hodgin's disease, a type of lymphoma cancer. In order to raise the badly needed funds to cover the medical bills, Alex is selling some of his beautiful photos. Click here to find out more.
Via Marc at http://lowtechblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/more-than-great-photography.html

A photo with a story,

Go to http://lowtechblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/picture-with-story.html for the whole story, but in a nutshell, Marc found a post card years ago, then met the son of one of the guys in the photo... wow, and it's a great photo!

Well crafted beer can art

Thanks to Karen!