Saturday, January 30, 2010

Only finishing second, in my opinion, behind bicycles comes lightweight Italian motorcycles in the competition for minimal transportation design.






A nice day in the 1950s with beautiful cars and no one wearing baseball caps

Wonderful tools gotten at "Charlie's discount tools" in Denver. I will restore the file (It is a Plomb) and will put a new pivot bolt in the Pexto seamers. Both tools gotten for $30. the people who run this store could not possibly be nicer.




Toy Bugatti




This is a toy replica of a Bugatti race car from the 1920s that I made for my son.


Wednesday, January 27, 2010




These are two Anvil companies still making good anvils. The black anvil is made in Germany and the others are made in the US from Italian designs. To give an idea of the price of a good anvil, the smallest one pictured (120 lbs and 24 inches long) costs $900.

Monday, January 18, 2010

Rip off artist


Here is Love playing our guitar before she lied that she co designed it with Fender. Our's was called the "Mercury" and they called the rip off the "Venus". The other image is of the Fender copy. My first real design gets copied and mass produced by the largest guitar company in the world.

When art was based on beauty and not ugly

Check out myoldbicycle.com for more of this.









Saturday, January 16, 2010

Blue retractable Sharpie

Anyone who fabricates should be informed that blue sharpies mark much better and last longer when used on metal than black ones. I don't care why, they just do. There are blue retractable ones now and that means heaven for me.

Thursday, January 7, 2010

The fast and the Beautiful











Gilberte Thirione was the cutest woman racer in my opinion.
Finally bought this poster that I have wanted for years. $20 on sale...saved $5 for waiting a few years. How pathetic!

Some gas stations to remind us of a simpler time. The one with the green trim is a sinclair station designed by the great Jean Prouve'.

This car speaks to my soul. The minimalism of purpose with a touch of art deco is pure modernism. The Mercedes "Blitzen Benz".



More images of that awesome Rolls Royce from a previous post. Notice the dual sunroofs! This has to be the most amazing car ever built.


Here is a deck lid that I designed and fabricated for a Porsche 356 at work. I also built the tail section as well.











This is rendering of a utility truck bed that
I designed