Tom Mix, famous Hollywood cowboy actor and car collector, personalized his cars with a Western USA theme, here is his '38 Cord 812 SC Phaeton

Of the 196 cars made similar to it, only 3 were built with the rare options like the external spare tire. The other 2 were also owned by celebs, Al Jolson who went through a lot of impressive cars, and Barbara Stanwick owned the other

What are the IMIXIH in the center of the steering wheel representing I wonder. Of course, it's more likely that the straight lines are just decorating between the letters MXH

That pistol handle, might be a parking brake handle, a prop gun, or anything you might imagine

I think this might be the first time I've seen a leather decoration on the outside of a car 

Tom was driving this car at age 60, across Arizona, and missed reading the sign about Bridge Under Construction and swerved to avoid the barriers and construction, and flipped the car, and died.  http://fan.tcm.com/_Tom-Mix-and-His-1937-Cord-812-Phaeton-/photo/16303893/66470.html

Tom did his own stunts, and made 348 movies between 1915 and 1935

Ivan's bike, coolest story I've read in weeks

 Click on the above image for the full size so it's easier to read

the 5 million dollar, 5,000 square feet garage, 121 foot wide clear floor with no ceiling to floor columns (underground) with an RV elevator... and a collection of Harleys that have never been ridden or turned on

Thanks Randy!

Only once on the video does it mention the tv show that filmed it, Million Dollar Rooms http://www.hgtv.com/million-dollar-rooms/show/index.html

I think we can say the economic crisis is officially over

This unusual cool guitar could only be made by one company, Fender

Found on Facebook

Cool unusual flatbed truck ramp lowering innovations

 for a full gallery of this Unimog: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2012/05/1966-unimog-flatbed-tow-truck-with.html

this is a first, I've never found a hidden radio and gauge pod by accident before

I was trying to get a good shot of the cool levers, and didn't see the stuff above them until I looked at the image on my computer. 

an astonishing source of info about cars you've never heard of, The Petrol Stop.com

I browsed through for info about the next post, a VW SP2, and while I was looking around I found numerous cool and unusual cars I've never heard of, like the Monica 560 (Which was built with mopar 340's) , gold plated Deloreans (American Express specials) , the Monteverdi Hai, the Ford GT 90 and lots more

http://www.thepetrolstop.com

most unusual rim

Thanks to Case who took this photo at the annual Throttlers car club event in Burbank this past weekend

A odd motorbike that Von Dutch built on a BMW frame, with a VW engine

Thanks Frank! I've never heard or seen this one before

Norm Grabowski had a custom motorcycle made, and the shop put his photo on the back of their sales brochure

 a 41 Indian frame and Boyd DeFrance made the adapter to link the Indian shaft drive to the engine and cast the valve covers

Later, Tony Nancy added the upholstery to the cut down T-bucket sidecar rig and Dean Jeffries did the pinstriping

Wheelchair with lawn cutting blades... ummmm, what? What is the idea? To push yourself around the front yard and cut the grass?

Ford Maverick Stallion, in 1976, was the pace car at a local San Diego race track

Hagerty ins co celebrates the Tour of LeMons 2012 at Monterey

All aluminum '40 Willys that's been circling around the internet all year finally found my email inbox

I looked around the internet to see where these originally came from, and the earliest post of them seems to be mid February 2012 on http://wizardofbaum.blogspot.com/2012/02/walt-austins-aluminum-willys-coupe.html where there are more images. However, http://saltflatsspeedshop.com/40willys.html has a bigger gallery and a couple of the car at a car show and where the Salt Flats Speed Shop says they sold it to a guy in New York

Speedfest 2012 is here! In San Diego at the Naval Air Station on Coronado Island in the bay, both Saturday and Sunday... here's a quick look at what I saw today

fuel cooler canister in the back seat

 Jeff bought this 1969 Kenworth at age 19, and worked with it for the next 20 years, getting 3 million miles under and behind him... he then converted it with the only stipulations from his wife that it have a toilet and a shower. They're both happy!

This is the only time I've seen scales in the pits... huh!

 Using the El Camino's truck ability to pull their race car!

Looks like the Von Dutch Flying eyeball... Just saying

 Using whatever was available to get some race gas... which costs 10.00 dollars a gallon.

 Buick Centurion?

Above, a Lister, below, a Falcon Sprint

 Lola

A Bluebird. You may have heard of them

Red white and blue racing tape... clever!

 Centurion Fiberfab  http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/10/beautiful-stingray-corvette-racecar.html

Fisker Karma... hybrid 4 door sports car

1959 factory twin cam

There seems to be twice as many drifters as last year