Proving that art, metalflake, cars, and roadside cuisine really do all work together are the Royal Jokers car club. While the club has been building and driving fine hot rods and customs for over twenty years, they just recently started rolling into the Oakland art scene at the Giant Burger for a monthly dinner. The first Friday of every month is when uptown Oakland has an Art … [Read more...]
Danger Mower
Extended staycations, spare engines, and crazy ideas can result in potentially dangerous engineering. The old lawnmower chassis under this Suzuki engine was serving as a cheap dolly to facilitate moving the aluminum and steel lump from garage to swap meet. Standing six to eight hours at a swap meet is a long time, so on went the spare kart seat. A few more parts later, and the … [Read more...]
Lakes Kadett
Some of the more interesting cars at any car show are often tucked away in the parking lot. This late sixties early seventies vintage Opel Kadett was spied by our man in the field Dave Wallace at the Kulture Shock car show in Lake County, California. The show was open only to traditional pre-64 hot rods and customs, which evidently relegated this Kadett to the spectator grass. … [Read more...]
1934 MG Jacobsen Special
From the bungee cord suspension modification division of the Morris Garages department comes this 1934 MG Magnette, owned and driven by Michael Jacobsen. The car originally came to American shores with a serviceman on his way back from World War II. The bungeee cord front suspension upgrade had already been completed. Michael's Dad Lars raced, wrecked, and rebuilt the car with … [Read more...]
Air Pollution Patrol
Dateline 1973. The Bay Area Air Pollution Control District announces the formation of their Vehicle Patrol section in San Francisco. Fourteen agents would patrol California roads, and issue citations to smoke-spewing scofflaws. The agents completed California Highway Patrol defensive driving courses and were trained in patrol driving techniques. Their fleet? Fourteen … [Read more...]