Thursday, May 21, 2015

cars with names that I actually give a damn about. I don't know why every car Chip Foose (and every other customizer) makes has to be named, but it's ridiculous

Tweedy Pie (Ed Roth)
Kookie Kar (Norm Grabowski)
Deora (Alexander Brothers)
Christine (Stephen King)
Snake and Mongoose (Don Prudhomme and Tom McEwen)
Mefistofele
Beast of Turin
Herbie
Geneviere
Mystery machine
Marmon Wasp
Thomas Flyer
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Challenger (Mickey Thompson)
Batmobile
Dragula
Tameless Tiger (Arnie Beswick)
Pete's Patriot
Blue Max
Chezoom
Scarab (Lance Reventlow)
Le Bestione (Gary Wales)
Golden Submarine
Green Dragon
Bluebird
the Beast (Eric Bana)
California Kid
Furthur (Grateful Dead)
Blitzen Benz
Ol Yeller (Max Balchowski)
Capt America (Peter Fonda)
Wagonmaster and Show Boat (Tommy Ivo)
Baja Buggy (George Hurst)
Gurney Eagle
Floor Shift Special ( Smokey Yunick)
Fang, Orbitron, Mysterion, Outlaw (Ed Roth)
Hirahota Merc
Mach 5 (Speed Racer)
Jade Idol (Gene Winfield)
Mormon Meteor (Ab Jenkins)
Battleship and Nancy Hank (Four Wheel Drive company seminal 4x4s)
Eden Rock (Fiat/Cord/Doheny families)
Kopper Kart
Ala Kart
El Cid (Dragonsnake)
Manta Ray (Dean Jeffries)
Big Oly (Parnelli Jones)
Dolores (Almost Famous tour bus)
Jumbo (1889 fire pumper)
Gray Wolf (1903 Packard works racer)
Old 16 (Locomobile won the Vanderbilt Cup in 1908)
999 (Ford race car that got Henry his start, raced by Barney Oldfield)
Kenford (Von Dutch)
Leslie Special (movie the Great Race)
Silver Bullet (67 GTX test mule of Mopar engineers/Woodward ave dragracers)
Renntransporter (Mercedes hauler)
Black Beauty (imperial driven by Kato in the Green Hornet / Bruce Lee )


I don't see anything on my list that didn't accomplish something, in order for it's name to be recognized and probably respected

(more to be added when I have more time to rattle my memory banks)

6 comments:

  1. Agreed Chip Foose = overrated

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    1. Well, I don't know what you are agreeing with.... I didn't say Chip is overrated... I rate him very highly. I've admired his career, from Art Center College of Design, to working for Boyd, to going solo, to making his own tv shows, and on top of all that, still doing a hell of a lot of great cars. I said his naming every damn car was ridiculous.

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  2. Jesse, would "The Last V8" from Mad Max and Mad Max Road Warrior" be one? Maybe? No? (Australian Ford Falcon.)

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    1. never heard of, or can't even remember that... so, nope.

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  3. How about Mad Dog IV? From the web...Bill France posted an award of $10,000 to anyone who could post a speed in excess of 180 mph on a closed course speedway. Bob Osiecki of Charlotte, NC took up the challenge. Osiecki installed a super charger Dodge 413 cubic-inch engine in an Indy roadster. Then he designed and installed a vertical stabilizer and a pair of inverted air foils, or upside down wings, to the chassis to aerodynamically stabilize the vehicle at speed.
    On August 28, 1961 Art Malone drove the 'Mad Dog IV' to a world record speed of 181.561 mph at Daytona International Speedway. The car is owned by Mary Ann Osiecki and is on loan to the North Carolina Auto Racing Hall of Fame.

    https://www.hemmings.com/stories/article/2-5-miles-flat-out

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    1. I know of it, but seem to have only posted about it obliquely, in https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2017/08/with-backing-from-dodge-and-hurst-fox.html and in my obit for Malone https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2013/12/reposted-in-full-in-respect-to-spread.html

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