Those mad Englishmen, wondered what if Picasso had customized a Citreon 2cv

Via http://news.caradisiac.com/Citroen-Picasso-la-veritable-777 and http://www.autoblog.com/page/2/ and http://www.super2cv.com/

Posies is trying something way different

http://www.posiesrodsandcustoms.com/category/posies-fleetliner/

A chopped ‘47 Chevy Fleetline Aerosedan with a Roush-built, supercharged 300-cube Ford inline-6 sporting three sets of exhaust headers and triple tailpipes. No fenders. Finished in flatblue paint, with rivets and reveals for looks, the“Fleetliner” fastback looks like a Bugatti Atlantic that had spent a bit too much time with Darth Vader.

Perfect snow machine, I want one.

http://thrillingwonder.blogspot.com/2007/04/worlds-strangest-vehicles.html

Metallica musicians are hot rodders.

Above images from http://overkill.pl/news/goto.php?id=2249

For the full gallery: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/01/metallicas-lead-singer-james-hetfields.html for the Grand National Roadster Show gallery, and for the SEMA gallery of the same Auburn: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/11/james-hetfields-boat-tail-speedster.html

James Hetfield (also a member of the Beatniks car club) had a cool customized 53 Buick Skylark (named Skyscraper) at the Grand National Roadster Show (formerly the Oakland Roadster show), and won the Most Elegant Custom at the San Fran Custom Show http://www.sfcustomshow.com/navigation/showresults.html#Anchor-35326 and Kirk Hammet had his 36 Ford GNRS too, and they were both pictured in Street Rodder magazine.

James Hetfield's Buick showed up in Street Rod Builder magazine, April 2007, page 67 http://streetrodbuilder.com/ME2/Audiences/Default.asp?AudID=CAABC04124864AFC82D9CEC69C0E29ED for the overall magazine


Kirk's 36 here http://www.salinasboys.com/pk_metallica_36ford.html

James also has a few that show up on http://www.beatniksofkoolsville.com/Members%20Cars.htm a 36 black Ford

http://www.mgexperience.net/phorum/read.php?47,507108

The Rodders Journal had an article too, if I come up with a link or pic I'll put it here http://www.thehotrodcompany.com/shopnow/show_item.asp?product_id=trj029

http://rockindownthehighway.blogspot.com/2007/02/rockin-team-metallicas-james-hetfield.html for several pics of JH's '36, his under-construction truck a '56 F100 custom by Blue Collar Customs of Sacramento

You might also like the racing in their video "Fuel"

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/11/adjust-volume-depending-on-your.html

As long as this doesn't have a blower explosion....

This motorbike known as the Rapom is built by Nick Argyle.

The builder said that the bike was spawned “from the unusual marriage of convenience and naivety”. After the chassis of his monster truck was sold, he actually used the left over engine to build this motorcycle.
Tipping the scale at 454 kg or 1,000 lb, the Rapom is equipped with a 8,2-litre supercharged Mopar V8 engine (tuned by ICE Racing) that runs on alcohol producing 1000 - 1200hp (depending on blower speed and fuel used).

I'm positive no one's done it before, this is definitely a first

http://kolyan.net/2007/04/05/super_motocikl.html and 2 more big wallpaper sized pics at http://img23.imagevenue.com/view.php?image=43765_1_bulletinboardforum_com_123_269lo.jpg

VW Bus Ball, Lars-Erik Fisk sculptor

These are the coolest car art sculptures / mods I've ever seen. Made by a young Vermont artist (who has the unfortunate luck to live in Burlington Vermont) this was made a couple of years ago, and earned the artist a $20,000 prize from a local art museum.

Update : http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/03/lars-erik-fisk-artist-with-vision-of.html

I just learned of this artist today, and after an hour on the internet could only get the basic idea that no one has the guts to show the great stuff this guy has done.

Some websites did mention the UPS truck ball, and the John Deere Tractor ball the Lars-Erik has made, but so far all mentions of this VW Bus Ball are just copying the photos from http://oblique.csail.mit.edu/Album/Shellenbarger/Shellenbarger_Summer_2001/Volkswagen2.jpg.html but without giving credit to the photographer, nice guy named Thouis, who told me I can use his photos, and only requested that I "Mark them as creative commons licensed, and please attribute Lars-Erik Fisk as the sculptor"

How cool is that?!

I first found this ball at a cool website I look at almost daily 'cause they find neat stuff like this all the time! They linked to http://blog.coker.com/index.php/2007/01/30/ which is also a cool website if you love cars and car rally's (nice wall paper and story about the '58 Austin that the High School girls restored Corky! )

His facts were a bit off, but well intentioned I've no doubt. As long as someone gets the word and the pics out I thank them all the same. Terriffic blogs, car guys, rockers, websites, and photographers, all made it possible for this cool artist's sculpture / mod to get some well deserved acclaim and attention.

Read the link at Corky's blog, it links to several other pages that highlight the fantastic rodding life of Billy Gibbons, one of the guitarists of ZZ Top, a favorite band of mine since the "Eliminator" album got my attention in the early 80's. Billy has a big hardcover book that you can buy at Walden Books, that really diplays the hot rods and cars Billy has had made. I'm just sad that the awesome pair of motorbikes don't seem to be in any of the links. Damn, they were part of a Hot Rod, or Car Craft, maybe even Popular Hot Rodding article that I clipped for the Cadzilla, Eliminator, and Kopperhead picturs. Loved every album since, and saw them in concert in San Diego on the XXX tour around 2001.

Kopperhead was made at the So-Cal Speed shop it seems, that's where the photos link to, the Cadzilla pic is linked to the Petersen Automotive Museum online slideshow of a great exhibition they had of guitars and hot rods. But, by far the best gallery of the cool rods that Billy has is at http://www.channel4.com/4car/gl/gallery/gallery/802/11 . Just go right there and get your fill of no expense spared, built by the best, hand crafted american iron.

If anyone knows where we can see anyother of Lars-Erik's sculptures, email me please so I can link others to them right here. The John Deere ball is reported to unfold and show working gears and stuff! So cool, and I love the dichotomy of the UPS ball being such a contrast to the boxy UPS trucks and boxes.

jbohjkl@yahoo.com

And thanks to cool websites like http://www.iwantavolkswagenbus.com/blog/2008/07/the-amazing-volkswagen-bus-ball-by-lars-erik-fisk/ for the compliments and for sending readers my way