the unusual things that cought my attention at SEMA

Great idea for an instant pop up parking sign

Barstool racers

The above beautiful wood, is twisted olive. real stuff.

Tribute to Barney Oldfield's Golden Submarine http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/01/barney-oldfield-and-golden-submarine.html

Pinstriper Spiderman, he set up office temporarily at SEMA, and Tere just happened to get there first thing and he pinstriped her camera!

The work of an artist is pretty cool, and a lot of people stopped by to watch, to compliment, and to talk

Now that is a cool signature

Way cool pin

To link with Spider on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/spidermanpinstriping

Free PRoTO tool set by getting subscriptions to Hot Rod magazine, 1967

That tool box might look familiar, I just found one and posted a photo of it: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/11/professional-tools-which-were-plvmb.html

A bit of this and that from here and there, can't recall where I found all of them

Robert Williams (kulture artist) had one impressive collection of German WW1 helmets Via: MC Art

Lettered in the Von Dutch style of obvious humor... love it! From Mr Jalopy

1908 Indian Torpedo Tank Racer

This image was on Pixdaus, but i don't recognize the car maker. What struck me as worthy of posting was the winch, bolted on front bumper and rope... why?

I love this funky can and bottle opener

1947 Salibury from MC Art

1965 Austin Mini Wildgoose

Dear Santa, I know where you can find my xmas presents

Here are close ups, the full image is last, and even bigger after the link

Via http://www.shorpy.com/node/4068?size=_original

PROfessional quality TOols, which were PLVMB tools until about 1947

This great old tool box belongs to my girlfriends mom, who also believes that you should by the best you can afford so things will last the longest possible time.

For some history on Plumb/Plvmb/Plomb tools that is now owned by Stanley: http://www.stanleyproto.com/xhtml/interactive_100anniversary/index.html