Reason has ceased to be a part of my conscious being. Clearly, since I’d rather be seen in this than a new Ferrari. Enzo Ferrari famously said “there are Ferrari owners, and there are Ferrari drivers” and nothing rings more true today as I can’t remember the last time I didn’t see a complete dolt behind the wheel of one. Instead plastic made to look like wood is quite appealing in my eyes.
Stop at Athens Coney Island for a Coney dog the weekend before the Woodward Dream Cruise and you’ll see plenty of nice classics. Starting out as a fundraiser for a local football field, the dream cruise has grown into the largest automotive event in the world and one of the most important exhibits of classic Americana.
Unfortunately, I missed it by a week, but next time I come for the Carfax race weekend, I’ll be sure to stay on for another week!
The guys at Axis of Oversteer write one of my favourite blogs. I just ripped this one off of them!
This is so good I am ripping it straight from Visual Gratification:
“I received a mail in response to an earlier post on the Lucifer’s Hammer. The mail was from Mr. Scott Turner a.k.a Kenny Roberts 
and the gentleman had send a link of a YouTube video featuring the Lucifer’s Hammer. now that’s even rarer.
He also mentioned ‘If you click on my YouTube channel, you can see other rare videos. I’ll be adding more in the future.’”
“The video shows a great ‘Battle Of The Twins’ race between Gene Church and Marco Lucchinelli at Daytona in 1985 with Gene Church riding the Lucifer’s Hammer. Its a 9 minute video with the last minute having a short interview with the winner, Mr. Gene Church. Enjoy the video and many many thanks to Scott Turner for sending the link.”
What a fantastic little car. My friend Lina fell in love with a picture that turned out to be the real thing. She drove 1500 kms to get it back home and then she takes me for a ride. Now I’m in love too!
It’s done! Ready, driveable and beautiful. I am so happy. Sure, there are things left to do but they can wait until the winter. Now it’s ridin’ time!
Are you like me and prefer classics over that, mostly revolting, stuff they call cars nowadays? Then GT Racer is something for you. A two season documentary series covering such classics as the Six Hours of Spa, Le Mans Classic, La Carrera Panamericana and many more.
Here’s the trailer for La Carrera Panamericana:
Overcoming an obstacle is so much easier when equipped with the proper tools. Katarzyna shines on a daily basis and keeps bringing us those surprises. On Saturday, she charmed the set of a fashion shoot with her antics of bravery and tomfoolery. Naturally we stuffed the model, stylist and makeup artist in there clutching their bags and hauled ass down the mountain.
For good measure, I’ve included a clip of what happened at the road block!
Can you tell I like Aston Martin? Can you tell I’m an idiot for trusting the Web with only a pixelised layer on top of my numbers?
That’s one of the most fantastic looking cars in the history of motoring: the DB4 GT lightweight. Modified for classic racing but still road legal, I found this in London’s Knightsbridge. You can find the original post here.
Do you live in Stockholm? Do you have a kick-ass bike you want to have featured in a fashion story? Is your bike a chopper/bobber? Does it resemble any of the following bikes whose pictures I have stolen around the Interwebs?
Then please contact me. jens @ thecartorialist . com (remove the spaces)
The shoot is Saturday June 5.
The pictures are “borrowed” from SouthSiders Motorcycle Culture and Wrenchmonkees.
Far too few cars nowadays are built with the classic bonnet bulge. BMW did the right thing following tradition with the new M3, Dodge likewise with the new Challenger.
However, Aston Martin is the king of the bulge when it comes to the classic V8 Vantage.
Wanna learn how to handle a car properly? Get one without any electronic or aerodynamic aids and drive it really fast. Hopefully, you’ll end up as talanted as this fellow after som proper practise:
There’s something about slow motion that makes everything look cool.
At the end of the eighties and early nineties, German DTM (Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft) featured some iconic racing cars, like the BMW E30 M3, the Mercedes 190E Evo and Ford Sierra Cosworth. Even a Volvo 240 Turbo managed to snag the title once in 1985.
I keep wanting more but I have no room. That’s the drawback of not being a millionaire and living in the city. There are plenty of bars and women to go around, but storing all the stuff you buy gets impossibly expensive. Although, it’s good that something is holding me back from buying everything.
It’s just fantastic looking! It’s just what I need to complement my German street tracker and ancient Japanese scrambler. I’d ride it as is, but I would perhaps get another set of handlebars. Perhaps a good thing that it’s a 4 hour drive just to take a look at it…
The ad for this Harley can be viewed here and that’s where I got the pic from.
With an amazing amount of luck, I came across this old, fully original, Suzuki TC 120 from 1970. No rust anywhere and glistening chrome even on the wheels! Everything’s intact, even the original owner’s manual with all the receipts from every single service in its 40 year old history, this is going to be a perfect city runabout. I get an extra cylinder with piston, almost unused. It’s also got the original parts manual with all the codes and exploded views on every single item on the bike. I just struck gold and I am in love. I have been looking for something like this for quite a while, so I am a very happy man.
The effin’ seatpan has been bugging me for weeks but I am finally done. Good thing I am learning. Now I know exactly what not to do next time. You’re up SR400!
It’s off to the seat-maker to get that beautiful custom Bratstyle look. Contrasting piping? I think so.
Too much?
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Stumled upon this when I was out looking for a torque wrench. Completely refurbished and very nicely so. I’d love to start racing classic cars. I just have to stop spending money on motorbikes first. There’s a class in Sweden called group E (for economy), usually consisting of old Volvo 240’s and 142’s, VW Golf’s and the occasional BMW E21 or E30, that I should enter. The biggest problem will be fighting it out with my brother on who’s going to be the navigator. We’ll have to take turns.
So, I finally got that elusive piece of aluminium that I needed for the seat pan.
After some shaping, I realised that it wouldn’t be enough with just having it looking nice from on top, but that I actually would have to bend it to fit the frame. This is where the problems began.
Also, the wiring is bugging the hell out of me. How am I going to be able to sort that mess out and get the bike working properly again? It’s a nightmare.
Seat pan nice and done. It took an immense amount of time compared to what I thought it was going to take. I think that if I had known the amount of time and effort such a build takes, then I would never have started.
Turns out that I am not completely hopeless. Now I am just going to come up with a nifty way of attaching it. I’ve got an idea…
See the bike in the background in the second picture? I just bought it and am planning to turn it into this:
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