Kustom Kar Kulture Klash!
Wow, yesterday was a great day to be a gearhead in the blogosphere. Lotsa excellent posts about kustom kars kept popping up. Here's a recap of the best of the best:
The Cartoonist wins the checkered flag by posting 3...count 'em...3 great automotive-themed sites:
Automotive Hollywood, a look at the work of visionary car designer, Harley J. Earl.
Tom Daniel, creator of over 85 model kits for Revell.
Keith Weesner, painter of hotrods and hot women.
Meanwhile, over at MetaFilter, this cool cover gallery of CARtoons magazine appeared in between the usual assortment of snarky posts about politics and gushing over Apple products. I read CARtoons so voraciously in the days before I got my driver's license, that the pages were stuck together like the Playboys hidden between my mattress and box springs (but from drool, doncha know).
As for my own contribution to this meme, I'll point you to the site of John Detrich, an artist who's clearly an acolyte of Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, as well as a couple of other posts I've made on the topic of show rods.
Vrooom! Vrooom!
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And check out the gas powered mini hot rods
via Mookie
http://www.wonderfullywacky.com/motorsports-willys.htm
Posted by: Fritz | December 15, 2004 1:28 PM
Haha! They look like gearhead Shriners!
Posted by: MrBaliHai | December 15, 2004 1:53 PM
There's so much I could say about those magazines (not forgetting Hot Rod Cartoons and Cycletoons), I wouldn't know when to quit. I managed to snag a few 60s/early 70s issues several years ago. Crazy stuff. Do you remember a story called "Planet Of The A.P.E.S. (Angry Purple Edsel Sedan)"? It was a POTA takeoff set on a planet ruled by a giant, angry Edsel. The art was pretty wild, by an artist who had recently started showing up in their pages (can't remember his name, either). I'd love to see that story again, but good luck guessing which issue of which magazine. I think that story prepared me for underground comics. Of course those 'zines were a bridge to the undergrounds anyway, with the lack of comic code approval and all...
And then there was Pete Millar's Drag Cartoons -- original home of Shelton's Wonder Warthog. I found a couple of them also.
Posted by: M.Ace | December 15, 2004 4:20 PM
Well, hang on. Here's a couple of covers that I've had posted for ages:
http://ookworld.com/newsstand/dragcartoons_oct64.html
http://ookworld.com/newsstand/cartoons_jun65.html
Posted by: M.Ace | December 15, 2004 4:23 PM
Ha! No, I don't recall that story, but I do remember spotting Wonder Warthog for the first time in a hot rod magazine. I couldn't remember the name until you mentioned it just now.
Actually, I'd say that hot rod magazines prepared me for drugs, and drugs prepared me for underground comics...
Nice cover scans! With as many times as I've visited your site, I'm surprised that I haven't seen them before.
Posted by: MrBaliHai | December 15, 2004 8:23 PM
Thanks. Yeah, ookworld has its share of dusty old corners.
Posted by: M.Ace | December 16, 2004 4:09 PM