LITTLE CARS

" LITTLE CARS "

by Lilian Hardouineau

"American Gigolo" + MERCEDES 450 SL Roadster

"American Gigolo"

Paul Schrader

1980

Richard Gere drives a Mercedes Benz 450 SL Roadster in the opening squence of the movie with the song "Call me" plsyed by Blondie.

"American Gigolo" Trailer 1980:

 MERCEDES 450 SL Roadster, an icon:

CLASSIC WRECKS

Text from Etsy by Alex Rappoport:

"John Findra took the top down on his 2007 black Corvette at my request. We were starting our day with a trip across Hardeeville, South Carolina, to visit an auto body shop that inspires his artwork, 1:24 models of abandoned junker cars. On the drive, John told me that his love affair with automobiles goes back to childhood memories of the 1950s. It was the era of tailfins, chrome and custom color combinations, marketed in print and TV to the first car culture generation. John recalls cutting pictures of cars out of magazines and playing with them on the floor of his family’s New Jersey home. He keeps his love of the machines from those days alive by building them in replica. By his account, he has assembled thousands of models in his lifetime since completing his first at age seven. These days, much of his business comes from customers seeking replicas of their favorite old cars."

via: http://www.etsy.com/blog/en/2012/classic-wrecks-the-rusted-car-as-art/

John Findra es un tipo que siente una gran pasion por los automobiles desde su infancia, sus recuerdos de los años 50 son de la epoca donde los coches tenian esas "colas" en su zaga, lucian cromados y combinaciones de colores personalizados, la epoca donde vivio y crecio la primera generacion marcada por la cultura del coche.
John recuerda recortar  las fotos de coches de revistas y jugar con ellos en el suelo de la casa familiar en New Jersey. Él mantiene vivo su amor por las máquinas de aquella epoca mediante la construccion de replicas a escala. Ha montado miles de modelos en su vida desde que empezo a los siete años.
Hoy en día, gran parte de su negocio proviene de clientes que buscan réplicas de su coche clasico favorito.

CAFE RACER

Do you want a Cafe Racer cup?
te apetece una taza de Cafe Racer?

via: http://www.flickr.com/photos/44948571@N03/

LAND ROVER Defender Tdi 90

LAND ROVER Defender Tdi 90
Photo by Goico

MOTO puzzle

MOTO puzzle

via: http://thingsorganizedneatly.tumblr.com/

VOLVO 740 Turbo Wagon

The basic idea behind the Volvo Wagon
El concepto que hay detras de un Volvo Wagon

BURNING RUBBER by Simon Davidson's

A Holden VB Commodore muscle car appears suspended above the clouds in New Zealand-born photographer Simon Davidson’s latest “burnout” series. The cult gear-head activity involves spinning the rear wheels of a stationary car, by simultaneously hitting the breaks and gas, until the extreme heat from the resulting friction burns the rubber tires, literally shredding them down to their rims, releasing bilious clouds of intense smoke. The Sydney-based Davidson stumbled on a streetcar race a decade ago and was gripped by the beautifully prepared cars, intoxicating noise of the V8 engines, and enthusiastic crowds. Switching from fashion to document the culture surrounding V8 Supercar, drag racing and burnouts, Davidson began shooting all over Australia during sanctioned competitions featuring the self-built, heavily customized vehicles. “With any extreme sport there is a moment of visual harmony when all the ingredients align in equilibrium,” he explains. “Photography has the power to reveal the beautiful frozen in fractions of a second.” Davidson’s peaceful shots feature in the second issue of Paris-based biennial Garagisme, launched last year to celebrate the aesthetic power of car culture. “Davidson’s work bears no irony, no social statement,” offers Garagisme’s Creative Director Gilles Uzan. “His photos celebrate the sheer beauty and poetry of burnouts, and this is precisely what I hope to express in the magazine.”

http://www.nowness.com/day/2012/7/14/2292/burning-rubber