Before we get to our post today, I'd like to apologize (again), for not being around much.
After I recovered from that brutal surgery (which now seems like a bad dream so far away), I started getting into some new projects so that ya'll wouldn't visit this page & be subjected to seeing my weird, freaky shit, but still haven't been feeling so up to par recovering psychologically. Obviously, posting to this blog requires me to keep up with my regular pizazz, which is something I've been drained of as of lately and it's been a slow road but things are getting back to normal, as will my posting here once more, so don't lose hope in me.
I also tend to a ridiculously large vegetable garden and it's the time of year to spend a lot of time with that as well. Nevertheless, I am making blogging more frequently and keeping up with all of you my first priority from here on out.
I also tend to a ridiculously large vegetable garden and it's the time of year to spend a lot of time with that as well. Nevertheless, I am making blogging more frequently and keeping up with all of you my first priority from here on out.
As for the post here today, I'm not sure it falls so much under the "humorous" category, but it is something I would like to bring to attention.
You notice more & more that you're seeing classic cars all over the place & many of them are extremely souped up?
The inspiration for this post hit me after one drove by me last week, gorgeous classic car, new shiny red paint job, complete with the Porky's logo n' all. It was so cool yet so amusing at the same time.
Well, after a trip at the end of last summer up to Essex County to visit The Clambox (yes, that's a seafood restaurant), I noticed something very interesting: Older men too afraid to get on motorcycles are now forming classic car gangs. I realized this at the moment about 15-20 of them pulled into the parking lot circling around & kicking up dust all over the place.
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| Never mind the lack of actual dust here. It was the best I could do. |
And being a car enthusiast, I found this to be a pretty intriguing topic to bring to people's attention.
I've also learned something in all this, and it's that I'm way more into these older customized American cars from the 30's, 40's & 50's rather than ones from the 60's & 70's.
I've also learned something in all this, and it's that I'm way more into these older customized American cars from the 30's, 40's & 50's rather than ones from the 60's & 70's.
So, today we're going to take a look at some bad ass lil beauties.
Take note that I refuse to even take a second glance at what American cars are today, but what they were decades ago is a whole different story! Better than anything made & existing today.
Let's start with what may be my personal favorite.
The Mercury Lead Sled 1940's-1950's
Take note that I refuse to even take a second glance at what American cars are today, but what they were decades ago is a whole different story! Better than anything made & existing today.
Let's start with what may be my personal favorite.
The Mercury Lead Sled 1940's-1950's
Now I'm not sure about 1951 standards, but having a car like this today is bound to get you laid.
If you think that's a beauty, let's take a look at some more Mercury Lead Sleds
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| Excuse me, I have to go to the bathroom. I'll be right back. And I'm taking this with me. |
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| By the light of the silvery.....Holy crap, I may have just shit my pants. |
The 1939 Ford Coupe
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| It's way cool, but I don't find it so hot in that it screams "Pass the Grey Poupon through the window" in a way. |
The 1937 Ford 2-Dr Sedan
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| Gangsta muthafucka! |
The 1934 Ford Coupe
The 1948 Chevy Aerosedan
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| That's balls! |
The 1948 Chevy Aerosedan
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| The paint job is a lil "Rainbow Randolph" but the car is awesome! It's got that body & shape I love. Perhaps if it had some chasing lights, it would be more of a clown car. |
The 1940 Ford Panel Truck
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| Clearly, besides being a milk man classic, it's a surf classic & how can I not love that?! |
I am literally in my GLORY right now as I write this post.
The 1952 Chevy Convertible
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| Take that, grease lightning! You just couldn't be that f-ing cool. |
The 1942 Ford F1
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| Not much words here. Just form & classic beauty. |
1934 Buick Sedan
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| I'll be damned. They once actually made an awesome fn car. |
I'm getting really scared I'll never stop here.
How about The 1941 Cadillac 62
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| Clean up aisle 62! |
I'm such a dude sometimes.
I bet it ROARS. I bet they all roar. "We all float down here!"
Seriously, I hope you've all enjoyed this post as much as my pants have.
Pardon my lewd conduct. I freaking LOVE these things!
I will now be doing some blog rounds & I promise you'll be seeing more of me this week.
Let me know if I forgot any seriously bad ass cars from this era that I can update the post with.
Let me know if I forgot any seriously bad ass cars from this era that I can update the post with.
Ok, seriously, that 34 buick... I came. Pardon me while I clean up my mess.
ReplyDeleteBaahahaha. I was royally surprised that Buick made such an amazing car for that time!
ReplyDeleteI love the vintage cars!! :D
ReplyDeleteI like shiny things!
ReplyDelete"clamboxing", that's my new urban dictionary word i'll use on all the dignitaries at tonight's dinner
ReplyDeletewhen you mentioned a vegetable garden, i welled up: haven't tasted a vegetable in years. carrots are still orange, right?
Zombie & The Minute Man's Wife - I do too!! I do too.
ReplyDeletePhoenix - I shall make it a point to use "clamboxing" more myself. I had carrots & spinach for breakfast, along with some V8 type shit. Sounds good, doesn't it?
You said Porky's logo? You should have linked that part of your post over to my blog and the kiss ass logo, if that's what you mean, haha.
ReplyDeleteOh dude, I love classic cars. I have no idea about their names and shit but i seriously love them.
Why do you even apologize for lewd conduct when we all know you're just as filthy as the best of us?
Nice to finally hear from your scarred ass. :P
I had no idea about their names till now either. Now it's like I GOTTA learn ALL about them all!
ReplyDeleteNot everyone who reads me is filthy. =P
You already almost can't see the scars at all anymore either! =D They're gonna be fine. =)
As I said in your chatbox, I'm damn happy to see you're back blogging. Hopefully, you'll just keep getting better and better PSYCHOLOGICALLY and physically. Got nothing but admiration and <3 for ya, LilPixi. You've been busy with a lot of stuff.
ReplyDeleteAnd now... on to your post. I had no idea old guys were forming gangs in older, cooler cars but it makes sense. Motorcycles would probably prove to be more than they could handle. Besides, it's great that they got a hobby like this and show the beauty and coolness of these older cars. Let's face it- Most cars today all look the same. Most of them are boxy and/or complete clones of one another. And long before you implied it in this post, I would tell my friends that cars today severely lack in the style department. Cars of the past didn't have the better miles per gallon ration that cars today do but they sure as hell didn't look like and aren't freakin' powerless boxes on wheels, either. My faves of the bunch you've shown: The black Mercury Lead Sled and the '52 Chevy Convertible. Take Care, Peace Out and See Ya in the blogosphere.
Of course those are your favorites. They're mine too, Kelly! ;~}
ReplyDeleteYep psychologically is the key word. I was doing extremely well before the fear from the whole medical ordeal knocked me off kilter. Been tough getting back up. Like "WTF just happened back there that was so serious for me?.....Really?" Hey, it got me to kick smoking!
So true about the cars. They were so damn cool!
It is good to be able to be in a mind frame to post again, but it's never good without you actively blogging. 2010 is always gonna stick out as the year I met some of the best people I'll ever have the pleasure of knowing in my life, and you're right at the top of that list, my friend.
Older men too afraid to get on motorcycles are now forming classic car gangs
ReplyDeleteI guess it is better than having grown men put stabilisers onto a Harley Davison, although that would be funny, watching a gang of them wobbling down the high street…
Don’t shoot the messenger but all the cars look like they have pumped up on steroids, sprayed oil over their bodies and are about to enter a Mr Universe competition….only they have gone a bit to seed and the flab is starting to show though… just saying, I say it as a I see it….
Not being a fan of Motorbikes either I guess I might have to start my own gang of middle aged gadget freaks roaming the shopping centres (malls to you) clutching the latest useless, over priced device, with far too many flashing lights to be healthy and making sad blipping noises, the devices not me, I tend to whimper rather than blip…
You say you don’t like the cars from the 60’s, have you not seen Don (Madmen) Draper’s Cadillac, with fins so pointed it looks like you could cut your way through the traffic (like a knife through a pool of microwaved butter….. but only if you were driving in reverse) . I half expect to see impaled pedestrians attached to them….now that’s a sharp car ….for the record I’ll stick to my overpriced BMW convertible, it might not have the romance of your Arnie cars but at least it can get me to the end of the road without having to attach an oil drilling rig and refinery plant….
P.S. Tell Porster I have a shower every morning and so like to think that my body is at least clean.... as for the rest of me....lets say I was never a fan of eating soap....although some of the fruit ones seem to take care of the worst of my verbal indiscressions
Niel, I like the muscle car reference. LOL.
ReplyDeleteI'd also like to see such a gang wobbling down the street!
You also just prompted me to Google image search Don Draper's Cadillac, so now I have seen it and I almost became incontinent just looking at it, or reading your whole comment, or both. Let's see that try to turn down a narrow alley way.
I like my overpriced luxury car as well. ;~}
Maybe today is the day I shall manually turn it into a convertible of my own. I would like to learn to to handle the chainsaw. Hope it's not going to rain.
And you hear that anyone else reading this? I guess this week we'll be giving away shower caps & homemade soaps on A Lollipop World. Appears we have an epidemic to clean up.
You also just prompted me to Google image search Don Draper's Cadillac, so now I have seen it and I almost became incontinent just looking at it, or reading your whole comment, or both. Let's see that try to turn down a narrow alley way.
ReplyDeleteNo worries, those wings would slice open that ally way like Elvis tucking into a - Deep fried cheese, peanut butter, triple beef burger, dipped in milk chocolate and served with extra thick heart attack inducing cream - hold the salad including the Gherkin…….
I like my overpriced luxury car as well. ;~}
Maybe today is the day I shall manually turn it into a convertible of my own. I would like to learn to to handle the chainsaw. Hope it's not going to rain.
On the rain front, having accidently experimented on a motorway….. I can assure you that as long as you can stay at 70 mph or above and it is not absolute monsoon conditions, most of the rain fly’s harmlessly over the top…pass any huge lorries though and you start to get a side splash issue….Feel free to start that chainsaw and welcome to the world that is topless motoring
And you hear that anyone else reading this? I guess this week we'll be giving away shower caps & homemade soaps on A Lollipop World. Appears we have an epidemic to clean up. In the light of this last statement, I would like to change my last comment from “topless motoring” to “open top motoring”, in case it gives some of your more sensitive readers the wrong impression…however if you are passing out Lollipop World soap on a rope I might have to advocate for open top, naked motoring…. to make the most of those warm summer showers (just trying to do my bit for the environment) – that rear view sure looks like an excellent place to hang the soap….
I am so glad you are feeling better and hey, disappearing scars are cool! It's like "Hey, they cut me open - no they didn't!"...it's like being in a drunken haze and only thinking you went into surgery! Or is it? I don't make much sense...
ReplyDeletePants... my pants feel tight today, so I'm doing the tight pants dance, thrusting my crotchal area to and fro here at work... maybe I should just take them off??
Niel - So clever & witty, you truly crack me up! That was so damn funny. The salad & gherkin is the best part. I'll take it, and chomp those leafy greens as I watch the wings of destruction tear up the walls of every building in its path.
ReplyDeleteTopless motoring - Oh, why must I envision everything?! And I just like to mix it up a bit - Have a post here & there with a little less lewdness than the usual. Lol
I just died over the Lollipop World soap on a rope & the naked motoring in the rain. I'm seriously going to giggle all day thinking about that!
Billy- You have no idea how I've missed your comments. Ya'll are seriously one of a kind blogging friends, and I'm so glad I found you hilarious mofos. Also, it is getting way too hot for pants, my friend. Nothing says summertime & "friendly neighbor" like bouncing & thrusting in underoos out on the front lawn while watering the grass, or even just watering down the sidewalk, or a slip n' slide & waving to passing traffic. Take my advice.
My responses here are reminding me to go take my meds now. Or at least call the doctor to get on some stat.
What a delightful blog! Classic Car Gangs - priceless and true!! We have them here on the West Coast. I'm now following your blog - hope you follow me also.
ReplyDeleteRegards, Mari
http://www.mariscamera.blogspot.com/
Hi Mari!
ReplyDeleteGreat blog you have there & I'm following back! =)Thank you for the follow as well.
This was definitely a tame post for this blog. Lol. I'm usually pretty wacky.
The first car is super sweet! I never knew that a Mercury could look so freakin' good!
ReplyDeleteThe 1939 Ford Coupe is beautiful!
ReplyDeleteThey're all really beautiful. These pics almost bring a tear to my eye. =)
ReplyDeleteAwesome looking blog!
ReplyDeleteI think you are right. These same guys are forming classic car clubs and doing Viagra commercials afterwards.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Xay B! =)
ReplyDeleteIz - BEST. COMMENT. OF. ALL for this post!! Baahahaha
Last weekend I went to look at a 1940 Ford coupe that was for sale. It was complete, but in need of a total restoration. I took one day to sleep on it and in that amount of time it was gone already. Those cars are just so hard to find, and so much better than the plastic crap they make now.
ReplyDeleteOh, man that would have been cool, huh?
ReplyDeleteI have to have one someday!!
My father used to be a classic car enthusiast, I still have fond memories of the 1937 Chevy and the 1960 Buick Electra. As a child, I remember he had rented space in 5 different neighbor garages.
ReplyDeleteThat's just beyond awesome, Doc!! =)
ReplyDeleteI'll have one someday.
Hi LilPixi,
ReplyDeleteThis is my fourth attempt to leave you a comment, and I'm feeling hopeful. For some reason my iPad wouldn't let me leave a comment here while traveling across the country....so wierd!
Anyway, I loved this! I like the new motorcycle gang. They are my cup of tea. The Mercury Green Sled and the Fords.....I could drive them happily!
Glad to hear you are feeling a bit better. Recovery takes time(Longer than you think it should), so be gentle with yourself.
As for gardening......I'm so overwhelmed that I'm only growing pumpkins. I figure a pumpkin patch in September will make me smile.
The Snee - So delighted to see you here! I had no idea you were traveling across country. =) I hope you're having a good trip & that it is a positive one!
ReplyDeleteThe new motorcycle gangs are my cup of tea as well.
I have a box underneath my Rodedendron bush that is permanently infested with pumpkin seeds. I can't attempt to plant anything else in it because the pumpkins eventually sprout & just take everything over. Luckily, they wait until after my chives grow in abundance. =)
Safe travels & take care! Can't wait to see you actively around the blogosphere again, you lovely lady you! <3
I love the fact that they all look like the vibrators I keep hidden in my closet! I'm with Lost In Idaho...I'm cumming!
ReplyDeleteFalen? That name had me so damn confused! LOLOL
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