Wow, lowering a train body down onto the chassis. Amazing, just one of those things I've never given a moments thought to how it was made

Does that just blow your mind and make you wish you could hang around and watch while that happens?

GM Aerotrain

above ad found on http://goawaygarage.blogspot.com/


one has been preserved and is at the at the Museum of Transportation in St. Louis, Missouri, and Car Nut commented to say that one is rusting away at the National Railway Museum in Greenbay Wisconsin
These photos are from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=477

The Phil Remington dry lakes roadster replica, 29 Ford frame, 36 flathead

SEMA had hot rod builders Pinewood Derby cars built for racing bragging rights, and then auctioned for Childhelp & Victory Junction Camp charities

1913 Alfa Aerodinamica, body by Carrozzeria Castagna, might have influenced the designs to follow, like the Dymaxion

Above image via MegaMoto http://megamoto.tumblr.com/
Do you also see the similarities to the below 1921 Rumpler, in the fenders especially Do you also see the similarities to the Dymaxion http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2007/07/funky-car-that-is-from-one-of-earliest.html

Cool streamlined fuel tankers from the Ken Goudy truck photo collection

See many galleries of cool old trucks and semis at http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/kg_tankers.htm

the odd design style of Paul Jaray, applied to a 1935 Maybach Streamliner coupe at the Paris Autoshow contrasted with the 1938 GAZ gl1

Above image from http://dieselpunks.blogspot.com/2010/06/perfect-streamline.html via: http://megamoto.tumblr.com/

Bottom photo was from Le Container I think.. not sure

Anyway, what a contrast of designs.. the Jaray at top was streamlined body, big cabin... opposite the GAZ below. Odd to have found these photos at about the same time.

beer trucks, cool from the design, form, and function aspects. Cool rolling advertisements too, because at the time, alcoholic ads were illegal

James stumbled across these, a streamlined Benz racecar

Thanks James! the source of the photos is http://www.flickr.com/photos/22154824@N05/3334256189/in/photostream/

New photos of Burt Munro and his first time at Bonneville have been found

above and below are the images that show Burt having just been given the sack of money that everybody donated to (love the comraderie of racers) that was a scene in World's Fastest Indian and the above moment was captured by another camera http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/01/they-passed-hat-for-burt-just-like.html

From http://www.jockeyjournal.com/?p=710 . The photos were taken by Jack Brady, and are in the Kellogg collection, and I came across them at http://chromjuwelen.tumblr.com/post/789278888/the-jockey-journal-blog-archive-the-passion-of

For all the other information and photos of Burt I've come across: