Above once had a 2 story glass windowed showroom. It was designed in 1920, but was past its glory days in 1929 when the stockmarket imploded and they started selling used cars here. Now it's a low rent apartment building. http://www.brownstoner.com/brownstoner/archives/2009/04/walkabout_with_1.php?gallery1416Pic=2#gallery-1416 for an interesting historical perspective of it and the "Automobile Row" of New York
Photo via:http://www.scoutingny.com/?p=802

The above was an automobile finishing building for Studebaker during the 1920's. The same stock market crash killed it too. http://www.cuf.columbia.edu/workinginstudebaker/docs/Studebaker/history.html

Beautiful advertising from 1924, found in Sevilla Spain also via: http://www.scoutingny.com/?p=802

If you are interested in the Blade Runner vehicles also look at the Gene Winfield built Spinner: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2007/07/designer-and-builder-of-blade-runner.html
Via: http://megamoto.tumblr.com/






a better gallery of it can be seen here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/21109658@N00/106322715




The inspiration for the design came from Marijke Koger, one of the design collective ‘The Fool’ who were responsible for numerous seminal pieces of the period and were very influential in the psychedelic art movement. Marjke states in an email to me “I was staying at John’s house in 68 [she miss-states the date!] to paint his piano and he had a painted gypsy wagon in is garden. I suggested to him that he paint the Rolls like the gypsy wagon, which he thought was a great idea...”

It sold for a record sum of $3,006,385 at a Sotheby's auction in New York in 1985 to Jim Pattison, a Canadian. Later, as an act of kindness, Pattison offered the car to the queen of England. Today, it can be found on display at the Royal British Columbia Museum in Victoria. http://obviousmag.org/en/archives/2008/07/john_lennons_psychedelic_rolls_royce.html#ixzz0fNz8kmVa






1932 Ford Phaeton by Paul Gommi, believed to be one of about 50 still existing, but even more unique because it's believed to be the only SCOT supercharged 21 stud flathead ever built. All the work was done recently, but only parts and techniques that were available pre-1950















Below: Tom Leib's 1923 Wills Saint Clair, a Best in Class winner at Pebble Beach, one of 10 known to exist


Above by Brad Leisure


American Bantam roadster, ain't that cool?!


















Above 1950 Chevy Tin woody, found on EBay as a 4 dr before a lot of custom work was done






Michael Moal's 1929 Roadster, Moal bomber gauges




Boyd Coddington's French Connection 1939 Lincoln coach built