Lee Hartung Museum Collection
Lee Hartung's estate will have an auction by Auctions America by RM on Nov. 3-5, 2011 in Glenview, IL. Lee was a legendary collector and the collection has rare automobiles, motorcycles, bicycles, police badges, toys, clocks...anything you can imagine to collect will be there! This video shows Joe Bortz talking with the various people who are working on the dismantling of the collection.
The KiNG
My Rat Rod.. (side note: The clicking is the string on the camera, not the motor)
Rum Runner Rat Rod 47 Chev
"The Rum Runner" 1947 Chev 1 ton I chopped the roof 6" and channelled the cab 4" and lowered the frame 10". It has a 350 stroker, Offenhauser high rise, twin 500-CFM Edlebrock carb's a Stage II 700-R4 Transmission with a Ford-9" rear differential. The truck hauled grain in Saskatchewan for 45 year's, it now haul's ass in Alberta!!!
Pismo Beach Cruise (2 OF 5) Classic Car Show - 21JUNE09
The Official Classic at Pismo Beach Cruise, the day before Father's Day 2009. (2 of 5) This video is for my dad, and all the dads who wanted to go to this show, but couldn't because they're unable to walk & stand like the old days. It's hell getting old and nothing lasts forever. Thank you GM & Chrysler for making some incredible machines, and works of art over an amazing time in history my dad lived through. And these cars! Just like my pops, theyll never be anything like em...
The Pismo Beach Classic is one of the largest classic car and street rod shows on the
West Coast and 'one of the finest.' Pismo Beach, California, is the host city for this classic
car show, now in its 24th year. This show, held annually on the 3rd full weekend of June,
pulls in 1000 classic cars and street rods and over 125,000 spectators over three days.
GENERAL MOTORS
General Motors (GM) was founded on September 27, 1908, in Flint, Michigan, as a holding company for Buick, then controlled by William C. Durant. It acquired Oldsmobile later that year. In 1909, Durant brought in Cadillac, Elmore, Oakland (later known as Pontiac) and several others. Also in 1909, General Motors acquired the Reliance Motor Truck Company of Owosso, Michigan, and the Rapid Motor Vehicle Company of Pontiac, Michigan, the predecessors of GMC Truck. Durant lost control of GM in 1910 to a bankers' trust, because of the large amount of debt taken on in its acquisitions coupled with a collapse in new vehicle sales. A few years later, Durant started the Chevrolet Motor car company and through this he secretly purchased a controlling interest in GM. Durant took back control of the company after one of the most dramatic proxy wars in American business history. Shortly after, he again lost control, this time for good, after the new vehicle market collapsed. Alfred Sloan was picked to take charge of the corporation and led it to its post war global dominance. This unprecedented growth of GM would last into the early 1980s when it employed 349,000 workers and 150 assembly plants.
CHRYSLER
Chrysler was founded by Walter P. Chrysler on June 6, 1925. The Chrysler was a 6-cylinder automobile, designed to provide customers with an advanced, well-engineered car, but at a more affordable price than they might expect. (Elements of this car are traceable back to a prototype which had been under development at Willys at the time that Walter Chrysler was there).[18] The original 1924 Chrysler included a carburetor air filter, high compression engine, full pressure lubrication, and an oil filter, at a time when most autos came without these features.[19] Among the innovations in its early years would be the first practical mass-produced four-wheel hydraulic brakes, a system nearly completely engineered by Chrysler with patents assigned to Lockheed, and rubber engine mounts to reduce vibration. The advanced engineering and testing that went into Chrysler Corporation cars helped to push the company to the second-place position in U.S. sales by 1936, a position it would last hold in 1949.
FORD
The Ford Motor Company was launched in a converted factory in 1903 with $28,000 in cash from twelve investors, most notably John and Horace Dodge (who would later found their own car company). Henry's first attempt under his name was the Henry Ford Company on November 3, 1901, which became the Cadillac Motor Company on August 22, 1902. During its early years, the company produced just a few cars a day at its factory on Mack Avenue in Detroit, Michigan. Groups of two or three men worked on each car from components made to order by other companies. Henry Ford was 40 years old when he founded the Ford Motor Company, which would go on to become one of the world's largest and most profitable companies, as well as being one to survive the Great Depression. As one of the largest family-controlled companies in the world, the Ford Motor Company has been in continuous family control for over 100 years.
SUPER RATZ
RAT RODS HOT RODS AUTO ART JUNK YARD RUST RATFINK ED ROTH GEORGE BARRIS 1950S DOOWOP
Greg Baum's 1919 Willy's T, Rat Rod
Greg has designed a setup to shoot flames from his zoomie pipes! Pretty Cool! Taken at the 2007 Kenny's Rod Shop Customer Appreciation Day; Boise ID.
Mitch Allread: Don't Call it a Rat Rod... - BIG MUSCLE
It packs a 400 hp diesel out of a Ford F-350, a Dana 80 rear-end, and a look and feel that would make Max Rockatansky feel right at home. This is Mitch Allread's custom fabricated creation and it is, without a doubt, one of the coolest things on the road today. This is a machine that transcends the traditional hot rod formula by breaking down borders and setting its own stage.
Whereas most hot-rods are built by custom shops utilizing parts from mail order catalogs, Mitch took a different approach and fabricated just about everything on his ride by hand. Calling this a rat-rod would be an insult - a work of art however... that'd be just fine.
"The Beast" Kenworth Rat Rod
The Beast is getting prepped for some runs down the strip at Toyota Speedway. 10-24-10
