Neil Alden Armstrong 1930-2012

Too sad for words.

Bike envy continued:

Heart drag bars!

Putting the pinstripes back in.

Sorry I left them out!

A huge concern lately is losing touch with the pinstriped, primer-black, drag-racin', hot rod cruisin', rockabilly "flames 'n dames" sensiblities that I try to embroider into this blog. When that happens a visit to Skratch's garage will always set things straight.

How to make a regular Bell helmet (and a bomb for that matter) amazing:

Pinstripers have names much like DJ's. Meet Skratch, one of the best in the business:

And of course, he does surfboards:

My favs:

Motorsports Monday -Jo Siffert, 1969 German GP.

Tell me this isn't cooler than NASCAR.

Watts, LA, A foreclosure tour from the front seat of a patrol car | Marketplace.org

Friday rant

The fact that they can't get a buyer at $115,000 means the list price is too high! So was foreclosing on someone really the profitable way to go?  Screw the banks.

Good piece:

A foreclosure tour from the front seat of a patrol car | Marketplace.org

Summer Continues

Pretty fun for a day which was supposed to be flat.

The Pretty Things - LSD

Like garage? The Pretty Things - another amazing British invasion group that forgot to invade.