car auto show: humor

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Friday, September 23, 2011

Could only afford to look half stupid, and only replaced one brake light lens

So try to figure out if they bought the drivers side (normal) or the passenger side (stupid)

Doc and Marty went back in time, way way back... The DeLorean has been found

Found on http://holodrome.tumblr.com/

Monday, September 19, 2011

Graham Hill wants the damn race started already!

found on http://hellformotors.tumblr.com/

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Vanity plates are narcissistic

is it ironic that a Corvette has this license plate?

Hello Kitty and I Got Hoes... try and make sense of those bumper stickers on the same car

Somewdays you see the strangest stuff on the drive home... always carry a camera

The first time I've seen yellow brake lights... stupid people are out there sharing the road with us... look out!

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Our Gang / Little Rascals made this terrific taxi... donkey powered, a pusher really, with innovation in everything it does

the license plate is a 1917 New York

the below plate is a 1927 California plate

The driver heard a yell for a taxi, and he reaches up to activate the brake to slow down

below are the many different controls the driver has, you can see he pulls the choke (this was a real thing before advanced carbuerators, it allowed the carb to run better by adjusting the amount of air running through it "Choking" the air supply, creating a vacuum that made the fuel metereing circuit run richer )

and here you can see how the mule power is stopped... they close off the food that mule eats. No food, and the mule stops walking toward it. When the lid is lifted, the food is available, and the mule walks toward it, moving the taxi

the fuel level indicator was a float on the water supply of the mule.

Meanwhile in the engine bay, Farina (the black kid before Buckwheat) is making engine noise by rolling a cam against the "ingine" stick

Here you can see Farina in the engine bay... with a pump, starter, that ingine, and the radio

When they pulled the radio string, Farina started singing, saying he was Tony Wons... I happen to have a donzen books by Tony Wons... and was surprised to hear this. It places the movie from 1929 to 1943 I think, as that is the last year of Tony Wons' scrapbook I have. They are very good

After singing he played the kazoo

You can almost make out the paddle that smacked the mules butt, and made him walk faster. It's hinged at the top of the spare tire pile on his back, at the upper left corner of this photo