Disney California Adventure park expands with a Cars Land (Radiator Springs from the Pixar/Disney Cars movies)

videos found on http://nerdreactor.com/2012/03/08/cars-land-is-coming-june-15-at-disney-california-adventure/

above is a photo from http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/ below are from the Disney website 

 Disney California Adventure park guests will be racing through Ornament Valley and cruising down Route 66 when Cars Land opens. 

 Cars Land at the north end of Route 66 will feature Mater’s Junkyard Jamboree, Luigi’s Flying Tires, Flo’s V8 Cafe, Radiator Springs Racers and so much more!

the Disney Parks Blog will have a live webcast of the Grand Opening of Cars Land, and during the webcast, they’ll be answering your questions about Cars Land. So comment at their blog post    http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2012/06/ten-days-to-cars-land-at-disney-california-adventure-park-submit-your-cars-land-questions-now/  – what do you want to know about Cars Land?

Dennis O’Brien from O’Brien Truckers created the Low n Slow car plaque 

 “The plaque is made of pure aluminum ingot material from a chemically engraved pattern. Each plaque is made using the time-honored sand-casting process, just like plaques made back in the 1950s,” said Dennis. “First we start by pressing sand against the pattern. Next, we pour molten aluminum into the sand model. Once it solidifies, the mold is broken apart, the casting is cut off and the piece is finished off in ‘Ramone’ purple.”

Max Grundy artwork... far out cool, and he's going to be featured at Disneyland to sign his t-shirts and artwork!

http://fearisthenewbeauty.com/

Fire up the... new Suzuki Swift Sport

AT THE bottom of my garden lives a particularly persistent spider.

Each and every morning, without fail, it spins a web right above my back gate, and every other morning I'll forget it's there and get a faceful of silk and flies.

It's annoying, but I wouldn't exactly move house out of arachnid-induced frustration. It was much the same story with the outgoing version of Suzuki's Swift Sport, which had a couple of annoying niggles. In particular, the boot lip's always been a bit too high, which meant lifting bags or suitcases into the back was harder than it should've been. Yet I could forgive it that - and just about everything else - because of the way it went.

The old Swift Sport is still one of the best handling hatchbacks I've ever got my hands on. All of which makes this new version the difficult second album from Suzuki Swift - given how brilliant the original was, surely the larger, lardier replacement can only be a bit worse?

The Swift Sport's not a numbers sort of car but given that's where most of the improvements have been made I'll hit you with some anyway; the 1.6 engine now knocks out 136bhp, making it punchier than its predecessor's, but with carbon emissions now at 147g/km it's cleaner too, and you'll get 44mpg on a good run, 10% more than before. It's also a little larger inside and out, a little quicker and - naturally - a fraction pricer than the old one. It's also something you can't stack up with statistics - to my mind, it's better looking too.

So has it strayed from the winning formula? It's not the reassuring story the minor irritations tell you; that rev-happy engine's still a tiny bit thrashy around town, the interior's still a bit gloomy on longer trips and yes, the boot lip's still too high. It's probably not the best supermini if you're 117 years old, but if you're 17 and value thrills over frills here's the good news.

The new Swift Sport is brilliant.

Because it's a smoother drive the steering doesn't talk to quite as animatedly any more but in every other respect the new one's a belter - if you value handling over grip and power which is better being used on the road than bragged about at the bar, then you'll love the Sport.

It isn't perfect and it's a car of few superlatives, but only because there's no accurate way to measure how much fun it is.

Nimbus, not just a Harry Potter broomstick, it's a Danish motorcycle company from 1919 to 1959

 biggest prop/kick stand I've ever seen.

1942 Harley Davidson XA military grade hog... not a v twin.

one of 304, 1958 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham

what they left off this call out card is extensive, but in a nutshell it was the most expensive car made that year:  $13,074... for the 1958 Cadillac Brougham. $2000 more than the Rolls Royce that year (Hot Rod Deluxe May 2008, Page 42)
From a feature on this car http://www.johndagostinokustomkars.com/images/58%20Cadillac%20Eldorado%20Brougham%20Kustom%206.jpg

I posted a good gallery of a 1957 Eldorado Brougham a couple years ago http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/05/most-expensive-car-made-in-1957.html 

International Harvester SUV

Thanks to the detective work of Steve (servicide blogspot) !


1957 1/2 - 1958 International Travelall.

The 1957 1/2 "A-Line" (A-100s) was totally redesigned for International's Golden Anniversary, and replaced the S-series nomenclature (the 'A' stood for Anniversary).  Although the styling held over for the 1958 model year, I believe that only the '57 1/2s were considered Golden Anniversary models.  Travelalls and panels had one door on the driver side, and two on the passenger side.

The basic body style held over for 1959-60 also, but with grill, trim, and headlight changes.