Mustang, Super Bee, Ranchero

Pix of my '87 Firebird Formula convertible by ASC

Romeo, MI show at the former Packard Proving Grounds.

Some unique cars not usually seen at other shows

Scans and information on the 1963 Chevy II Nova for people building models, either AMT annuals or the new Trumpeter version

Great pics from HHMB member with great Pontiacs! The Chief will always rule...

Pix and neat stuff from Norwalk Ohio Summer 2004

What happens when neighbors get cheap and fail to do maintainence on a big tree... and we pay the price

Taken in and around the cruise, a teensy core sample of the cool rides! Detroit rules and rice is for dinner!!

This is a Concours correct "early model" 67 GT 350. By "early
model", SAAC means it was one of the first 200 built. (this one is number 0036)

The early model 67 Shelbys had a red light in the upper scoop. The first 100 cars had one piece grills, smooth seat upholstery (the comfort weave was not available until December) Flat gas cap emblems (up to car #86), the roll bar has braces under the fiberglass upholstery panels, the lower side scoops are ducted behind the rear wheels for some
real brake cooling, the grill has no "Shelby" emblem (the Jan.1967 Sports Car Graphic has one on the cover - no grill emblem) the tail pipes had chrome eyebrows over them as the GT rear valence was not built for the Shelby ones, yet, and, the chrome rings were not available so these are painted body color, and the inner ones are black like the grill.

Got to the show late, so some cats already took off. GTO is well represented here, if '64-7 is your thing, take a look.

A few pix from the show, forgive some of the obscure GM stuff, had to get some pix for business!

A few pix from the show, forgive some of the obscure GM stuff, had to get some pix for business!

Back in the day, this was one of the original Pure Stock Muscle Car events, organized by Car Craft Magazine. These were taken with a beat up Konica camera on Kodachrome, and recently transferred to high res from the original negatives.

Long ago when training was done on video tape (!) and people still got excited about new cars, Pontiac would do very well produced stories about these products. I got to write and shoot one of them about the new for '88 Bonneville SSE.

An up and coming young driver was chosen to star as our narrator, (primarily because he had a lot of open time in his personal appearance contract).

His name was Rusty Wallace, and you could tell just by talking with him that he was destined for more.

In the meantime, he had to pay his dues in Daytona, in July after the '87 Firecracker/Pepsi race, in 100+ degree heat and constant weather interruptions... but he stuck it out and we got the shots.

If memory serves, we won some minor awards, but the best result of all was a door-busting 1988 model year, which passed with virtually none of the fire sale incentives that later became so commonplace...

At least the ones I remembered to take pictures of. Tranferred color neg to hi res disk at the local photo store, and glad I did, they bring back memories.

The '63 Merc was mine for six years, from '82 to '88. Monterrey Custom trim, base 390 2V, purchased from Crest Lincoln Mercury in Sterling Heights; selling dealer was Dave Coogan L-M in Jos. Compeau in Hamtrammack.

The '69 Spoiler II was mine from '78 to '84. It defined "amateur restoration", sorry to say, but at the time, current Resto technology was unheard of. Serial # was 9H15M565839, had the "Special Performance Vehicle" tag in the door perfect and untouched. Made it to two Street Machine Nationals in '80 and '81.

Sold it to buy my first really new car, the '84 Firebird S/E. The payments were more than half of my take home, but I loved it, very classy car that was easy on gas and handled like it was on rails. Had the V6 HO, 5-speed manual and WS6 suspension.

Enjoy!!!

The gates of heaven swing open, sorry there woulda been more but I was too busy buying!

Pix at random from the biggest one day automotive event in the world... taken up and down Woodward Avenue from Thus.-Sat. in August, 2007.

What's on the bench at Ragtop Motors!

What's going on in the shop... lots of new stuff, projects and tools.

Pics from Woodward, mostly Northwood Center (which will be no more in a year or two.) These are a fraction of the total cars, probably took one pic for every 20 cars. Enjpy!

Stopped by to see the AMC's, a lot of interesting cars! Lots of stuff from the '50s to modern Jeeps. Enjoy!!

Grass roots racing is alive and well, if you're interested in real guys racing real doorslammers without stupid rulebooks governing their every move, take a look in here, it's a fraction of the action but fun just the same.

There is a show n shine, and two full days of racing . Everything's sorta jumbled, but it's fun to look at anyway

A picture is worth a thousand words, you can probably guess what some of them were. Great group of friends, great gifts and a great time. But damn, woke up and wanted to buy a Buick. What happened?

Dr. John Craft, noted vintage NASCAR restorer, collector and writer has shared some cool vintage shots with other collectors. We gotta get him a fotki account, too, but he's too busy patching up old Ford race cars.

Random snaps from the greatest car show on earth

A few shots of Studebaker Hawk GT details at the Woodward Cruise. Interesting thing is that the GT is a much larger car than it appears in print, and there is a fair amount of surface detail that you have to see up close to appreciate.

Shots of interesting stuff from the 2011 Detroit Autorama, just cool stuff that tickles my fancy... no '64 Impalas on Keystones or '69 Camaros

The latest and (hah) greatest from the workbench of Ragtop Motor Company... hardbody slot cars ready to put styrene to styrene.

After lo these many months, Red Chief is in tha' house (well, a storage lot, actually) ready for its transformation to an asphalt eating memory jarring monster.

They look like hobby tools, but...

From the F189 display car at the museum in Maranello. Good place to start if you have the Tamiya 1/12 model. Finally gives me enough confidence to start the build.