1954 La Carrera Panamerica

found on http://lacarrera2007.blogspot.com/2009/09/rare-la-carrera-panamericana-photos.html via
http://www.thegentlemanracer.com/2013/07/1954-la-carrera-panamericana.html

for  program from the 1953 Panamericana, see Portago's site: http://deadlycurves.blogspot.com/2013/01/1953-carerra-panamericana-program.html 

Disney, Hewlitt Packard, the Wright Brothers, Harley Davidson, Mattel, and Amazon all started in garages.. ain't garages great?! The new Cadillac commercial nails the sentiment

from Ray Bradbury. Back in the 90s he was quoted in American Way magazine (American Airlines) saying: When the Smithsonian asked me to conjure up a technological history of America, I simply replied “Garage.”

“Come again?” they said.

"Build me garages in a vast, scientific vaudeville hall. Then invite your museum visitors to open the garage doors one by one. Open the first and find two bicycles repairmen putting wings on a super-bike and flying it down the Kitty Hawk sand dunes. Fling wide the second and see Henry Ford climbing out from under his pet road-mobile. Third garage door? We’re in California, and we find a pale young man with a mustache drawing a cartoon mouse. Fourth “garage”: a gaggle of Caltech students in Pasadena horsing around with rockets to start the Jet Propulsion Lab. And fifth: Steve Wozniah in a Silicon Valley back-yard garage seeding Apples and harvesting communications. So many garages, so many toys, so many earthshaking devices."
thanks Steve!

some interesting and unusual stuff I found on Progress-is-fine.Blogspot.com

the unusual rims? called "high flotation wheels"

home made cannon... I think it's likely the larger diam breech area is made from a natural gas / acetylene tank

this is one exaggeratedly opulent advertisement!

the Chicago license plate... I've posted one before, it was a way to extort more money from the population so the local city government would get rich. It's unheard of now, but it wasn't always just state plates that were required to use roads

all from http://progress-is-fine.blogspot.com

Barn/garage find 1959 Cadillac series 62 found in really great condition!

Found on http://outsidethecubicle.tumblr.com via http://jeremylawsonblog.com/

good airbrushing on this Cadillac

the Rita Hayworth 1953 Ghia Cadillac was at the Art Center College of Design Pasadena annual car show

for more about this one of a kind, http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/03/1953-cadillac-series-62-rebodied-by.html

Indiana Jones - Raiders of the Lost Ark has some great planes and cars

from the escape from the south american natives to the clipper ship sea plane

for a gallery of the Honolulu Clipper: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2012/04/hawaii-clipper-1930s-photos-from-wj-he.html

to the stylish cars, and then there are all the military trucks, planes, and cars... it's a WW2 vintage car bonanza to watch this movie... especially for the flying wing that was destroyed after the boxing scene http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/07/i-just-watched-raiders-of-lost-ark-and.html

cool 1941 Cadillac

Biggest Cadilllac (20 passenger bus) you'll probably ever see, an early "bus" to replace stage coach lines in the rural California small town of Julian

 

Another gallery of this when it was still getting restored at the Campo museum: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2013/02/1924-cadillac-20-passenger-bus-from.html

best looking Cadillac I've seen since Cadzilla

found on http://outsidethecubicle.tumblr.com

the Cadillac of tow trucks, 1915 Caddy type 51 (5 passenger car) made into a tow truck

Found on http://theoldmotor.com/?p=85493

John D'Agostino makes beautiful cars, two were at the Rodeo Dr Concours

the glamour of advertising from the late 50's Cadillac ad campaign

found on http://carrosantigos.wordpress.com

a gullwing Mercedes found in Cuba, severely rusted and basically junk. Once a wonderful car... until a part broke and it was scavenged to keep others on the road I suppose

Also in Cuba are other very rare and incredible cars like a 1926 Rolls Royce Phantom I. Its coachwork has been recognized as the handiwork of Letourneur and Marchand of Paris. http://caristas.blogspot.com/2012/11/rich-relics.html

farther into the archives of Caristas.blogspot I found 

and among other Vettes, this 1954:

http://caristas.blogspot.com/2012/10/cuba-correct-corvette.html

and I just learned... there is a car museum in Havana.. the Depósito del Automóvil http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dep%C3%B3sito_del_Autom%C3%B3vil
and inside it are :

1905 Cadillac
 1926 Rolls-Royce Phantom I
1953 MG TD
 1920s Fiat Alfa Romeo roadster
1970s Daimler
1980s Chevy replica of a 1957 Maserati used by Juan Manuel Fangio
 Cadillac V16 1930
 1959 Oldsmobile, owned by Commander Camilo Cienfuegos
 1918 Ford T
1930 Baby Lincoln
funeral carriage
1977 Ducati 900SS owned by Fidel Castro
1915 Mack AC. Chain drive

the personal cars of Fidel and Raul Castro, as well as the Chevrolet Impala of Che Guevara, Mr. Maestre said he would like to secure what is perhaps Cuba's most important car: Ernest Hemingway's Chrysler.

The best online photo gallery is http://www.flickr.com/photos/riveranotario/sets/72157633360600664/with/8683984605/

Eduardo Mesejo Maestre, curator of the Depósito del Automóvil, the country’s official antique car museum arranged Treasury Department permission for Tom Cotter to travel directly to Havana from Miami on cultural exchange visas. Call it spark plug diplomacy.

We were told of the country’s dire economy, where street sweepers and doctors make the same wages. So auto repair for the island’s vintage cars becomes a creative endeavor: shampoo is used for brake fluid; iron pipes are cut up for piston rings; Coca-Cola is used to loosen rusty bolts; and cars are painted with sponges, then buffed with toothpaste.

“We call it the Cuban way,” Abel Contreras de la Guardia, our translator and tour guide, said. “We do anything to keep our cars running.”

Depósito del Automóvil is at Oficios No. 13, Habana Vieja, C.P. 10100, La Habana, Cuba. Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/automobiles/03cuba.html?_r=0