hot rods, muscle cars, customs...

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Damn. Baja trucks would be jealous of the amount of lights on that car.
 
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1949 Ford "Shampoo Truck" built by the great Joe Bailon in 1954. Bailon wasn't just a great customizer, but he also invented the color Candy Apple Red, and by extension all the bright candy colors that ended up dominating custom cars in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Always nice to see a jet stream blue C6 ZR1
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1960 Mercury Monterey custom
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Those are the cars of my childhood. They were my toy cars, my model kits, on the covers of all the magazines. The Red Baron Hot Wheel had the exhaust on the other side of the car because the modeler used a Mercedes aero engine for his design. When it came time to make a full-size 1:1 replica, a real WWI Mercedes airplane engine would be too large, so they opted for a Pontiac OHC inline-six instead. That meant the exhaust would be on the wrong side, but fans didn't care. It was a huge hit on the custom car circuit. It's currently at Bill Smith's Speedway Motors Museum of American Speed in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Hallmark Guitar's Bob Shade has made a lot of hot rod inspired guitars in collaboration with George Barris. The guitars are auctioned off for charity. The car owners, Bob Larivee and Chuck Miller, commissioned Shade to make a Red Baron guitar. They are building 50 of them. At $999, they're actually quite reasonable for fully custom built guitars.

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Those are the cars of my childhood. They were my toy cars, my model kits, on the covers of all the magazines. The Red Baron Hot Wheel had the exhaust on the other side of the car because the modeler used a Mercedes aero engine for his design. When it came time to make a full-size 1:1 replica, a real WWI Mercedes airplane engine would be too large, so they opted for a Pontiac OHC inline-six instead. That meant the exhaust would be on the wrong side, but fans didn't care. It was a huge hit on the custom car circuit. It's currently at Bill Smith's Speedway Motors Museum of American Speed in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Hallmark Guitar's Bob Shade has made a lot of hot rod inspired guitars in collaboration with George Barris. The guitars are auctioned off for charity. The car owners, Bob Larivee and Chuck Miller, commissioned Shade to make a Red Baron guitar. They are building 50 of them. At $999, they're actually quite reasonable for fully custom built guitars.

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Your childhood or our childhood? I'm almost 53. 😁
 
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