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Showing posts with label Mercedes Benz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mercedes Benz. Show all posts
Black and white and cool all over
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Labels:
bumper cars,
celebrity,
concept car,
crash,
Ford,
Gullwing,
Mercedes Benz,
Nascar,
Packard,
Porsche,
tires,
train,
train wreck,
wreck
Sophia Loren on the hood of a 300sl
Nixon in Paris 1957
Bumper cars at a British carnival
The concept car Ford Seattle
Dizzy Dean trying to start a 2nd career
Daytona Beach racing 1953
Train wreck Palatine Illinois 1950
Cincinatti 1950
Looks like James Dean's Porsche
Brooklyn 1955, maybe a Packard taxi
From "If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger,There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats" a blog about all pre-1970 American culture via photography http://tsutpen.blogspot.com/
Ever hear about how Von Dutch pissed off the Mercedes and sports car people? Did a flame job on a 300 SL gullwing Benz and put it in a car show?
Image via: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/?p=1836For incredible color video from a 1956 or 57 car show where this gullwing, Barris' Kopper Kart, Norm's Kookie T, and lots of other kustoms were filmed: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/?p=1836 this gullwing is at the one minute mark, and 3 minutes 30 seconds for both exterior and interior coverage.
For a write up about it: http://books.google.com/books?id=10di738DvjoC&pg=PA23&lpg=PA23&dq=gullwing+von+dutch&source=bl&ots=LkYIpr5Lye&sig=mNkL9bZeJo8hhkVsDdMVuJmkJWw&hl=en&ei=ENB6S73JJIq-sgOVuM2yCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CA4Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=&f=false
It was Earl Bruce's Gullwing, and according to a thread on the HAMB http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-243779.html it might have been the first flame job Von Dutch did
