Unidentified, 1950′s, dry lakes. ’29 roadster. Looks like a movie still, doesn’t it?

And here is a lady that is less interested in chatting and more in driving… it looks like she is just starting her project. via The H.A.M.B.

Now that Hurricane Earl it officially cruising up the east coast, we thought it might be the perfect time to share this series of hurricane drawings created by our very talented friend, Stephen Floyd.  You need to click to enlarge, because each of the 30 hurricanes comes complete with a short and often hilarious bio.  I’m not sure if any of these are still available, but I’ll fight whoever gets in my way of owning one.

See the rest of the series HERE.

images via stephenfloyd.com

Interesting British bicycles, use of space frame is unusual.  Apparently Moulton Bicycle Company pioneered the whole small-tires-bicycle thing back in the ’60′s. More of these on Moulton’s site here.

I spent almost 8 hours at LGA airport yesterday waiting to leave on a flight to Chicago..  I am now convinced that a portal to Hell opens up there after 9pm.

These are incredible!  Located in Harads, Sweden the ‘tree hotel‘ currently consisting of four rooms: The Cabin, The Blue Cone, The Nest and The Mirrorcube (my favorite!), and is set to open this weekend.

Mirrorcube

The Blue Cone

The Cabin

The Nest

via designboom

Does this mean that Chicago has a better chance of winning the lottery now?

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This BMW racer from 1937 is stunning.  The windshield is great, and the instrumentation beautiful- somehow I think that dash looks better now than it did new.  Notice the white gear shift knob, interesting, and the tool kit is elegant.  An interesting thing about this car was that it used magnesium aluminum alloy extensively, which in 1937 was pretty extreme.  Oh, and speaking of extreme, it sold for 4.5  million euros this past march.

There is a great article on this car here.

The Jalopy Journal has a great article here on Stuart Hilborn (above) , the godfather of fuel injection. Worth a read.

I have wanted a pair of motorcycle boots for a while and have not been able to settle on anything.  There are a lot of Frye boots that look really good, but there are a couple of things that have prevented me from getting a pair.  For one thing, even though they have a great history as an American boot company, some of their boots are made in China now and some are still made in the USA, so you have to look on the inside of the boot to know what you are getting.

What really stopped me from buying Frye boots, though, was the fact that there is nowhere to try them on. I contacted their corporate office last fall and they suggested that I order pairs and return them until I found the right size. No thanks, I don’t have the time- that will work as well as for me as the BMG Music Club.  I ended up buying a pair of vintage Frye boots off of ebay that were made in the USA and are really sweet.  To bad they don’t fit- looks like I would have been better buying from Frye after all.  If anyone wants to buy them, they are size 12 D.

So my search for a boot continues, and I have found a candidate: Corcoran 1500′s.

I first noticed these jump boots in Band of Brothers.  Corcoran supplied jump boots to the Army Airborne troops during WWII, though they were brown, not black.  They are still made in the USA, and are quite a bit less expensive than Fryes.  How can this be?  It may be because Corcoran is a subsidiary of  Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, and they can make do with a modest, steady profit.  Buy a pair here for under $160.

In one hundred years we have learned how to squeeze more power out of a cubic centimeter of cylinder volume than many in 1910 would have thought would ever be possible, but we have not become much better at making engines pretty. Via yesterdays.

We thought we’d start the celebration a little early with a little WWII and Korean War nose art. Nose art is an old tradition of artwork placed on the nose of military planes, most especially the bomber planes of WWII.   Most of the images were pinups, ranging from really well done Vargas-girl copies to cheesy Betty Boop types.

via quarterliving.com

Nixie tubes are the the coolest way to display a character electronically. Ipad, pod, neon, CRT tube, LCD display, plasma, none of it comes close to the Nixie tube.  I can’t really tell you why they are so cool, but I can show you.  Buy one here and here, or a kit here. Here is the wiki article.

This is a pretty cool photo, showing how they actually filmed the opening credits in the good Star Wars films.

via SlashFilm

Read more here. This is a feat of metal spinning.

“I’m fixin’ to go to the store, does anybody need anything?”  Read about this stunning V16 powered machine here.

Found this gorgeous machine via the great geared blog So-So’s, they found it here.