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Recently I got an email from a Polish car fan called Mers who sent me over his collection of photos from a big car show that happened in Radom, Poland. The show is called VI Zlot Samochodów Amerykańskich, which translates to VI American Car Meeting and from the look of the pictures taken by Mers, Poland know how to do lowriders, trucks and Yank tanks!
Because we read “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost, and were taught that art is a path chosen by those who will themselves into the unknown. Because we watched ‘Easy Rider’ and want to find that for ourselves rather than from a television.
Today we face a world that is unkind to change, filled with the reluctance of apathy. Pioneers are just faceless figurines in museums, rather than part of tomorrow’s manifesto.
There is something to be cherished in our wide open spaces, if only the chance to breathe an unknown air, in search of a new way forward.
Setting out across the West. On vehicles without windows to restrict the scenery. With sincerity on the mind, we will be alone to reflect on past and future paths, only to find that the solidarity of the group will take us another day forward.
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Scott Toepfer
The ’55 Chevy is, in a lot of peoples opinion, the definitive car to use as the basis for a gasser. This ’55 gives you a little clue of why this is the case, it just looks so perfect.
I have seen a few panels from Hot Rod comic strips recently and found a couple more on Auto-Otaku today, apparently they are from the HAMB forums but there’s no link and trying to find things on the HAMB is pretty hard work!
Some fantastic hot rod and kustom car drawings from Brian Stupski at Problem Child Kustoms. Check out more of his stuff here.
A 1967 Camaro is probably not most peoples first choice of car when it comes to building a autocross racer, normally autocross is more of a smaller sized cars game. However some people just don’t like to be told what they can and cannot use so instead they build themselves something absolutely ludicrous just to prove that any car can be made to do almost anything, if you really want it to.
“I do know that every time I get out of the Escort, I’ve got a big grin and I think that sums it all up doesn’t it”
Gwyndaf Evans – 1996 British Rally Champion
What better way to advertise Eastpak than by getting uber cool photographer Dimitri Coste to ride around with his mates on a 1937 Velocette Mack and a 1964 Triumph Tiger Cub in Paris abusing sets of steps and bike surfing on the pavements?
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Greenwood Corvette at Sebring 1980 by Nigel Smuckatelli on Flickr.
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