Riding a motorcycle and taking photos

No flames, no maltese crosses, no leather vests, no dragon paintings... but bikes that are being built with more than just bolt-on -parts. People with right attitude, motorcycles with right stance, all them right parts, and most of all... riding with friends!

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Check also part two!

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Drivin' around in Los Angeles in late 40's

This is rear-projection footage from downtown Los Angeles, shot sometime around '48 or '49.
I did not see any car from 1950's.

If this video was ever used, it was propably seen fuzzy and out of focus. Today, however, it's amazing documentation of a lost neighborhood.
Watch the signs and people passing by. This video has evidentiary value that no one ever imagined it would.
Video even has one hot rod!
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What's the difference...

 ...between clichè and a classic?

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Last show for this season

It’s fall, rains are here and season ends. Last possibility to go to a big indoor car show until winter comes! Next big shows are being arranged during spring-time, after a half year from now.

So, I packed my wife, our son, and few of our friends and headed to Helsinki. There was being held X-treme Car Show which now is combined to Petrol Circus motorcycle show. Yes, I know, this car show has possibly worst name of any show ever… but this year cars were great! Since it’s beginning, it has been show for newer plastic-cars, and that is the reason I hadn’t ever been there  before. They’ve changed their direction to more older cars and –referring to advertising- seemed to have interesting cars on display. Ofcourse we had to see what they had to offer…

There were few things that I really wanted to see, like this Futurliner.

Yes, it’s pile of rusty pieces, but how often do you get possibility to buy a Futurliner..? That must have been thought of the owner also.

In case that you didn’t know, The GM Futurliners were a group of stylized buses designed in the 1940s by Harley Earl for General Motors. They were used in GM's Parade of Progress, which traveled the United States exhibiting new cars and technology. The Futurliners were used from 1940 to 1941 and again from 1953 to 1956. A total of 12 were built, and 9 were still known to exist as of 2007. This one is # 8.

It will be rebuilt in it's original condition.

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Syndicate of Wastarannan Kiiski and Old Soul Collective had their own area where they had most of their motorcycles on display.

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       World's happiest uncle!

 

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Panda says hello. This is my friend Jake’s motorcycle, did some electrical work with this bike last winter.

  Sinners, Sweden

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  Best stand of the show, IMO.

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Last winter Tomi built this show-car called El Choco. It has visited all big indoor shows in Finland during this season, few in Sweden, and will be on display in Oslo next month. In my opinion, this might be most beautiful hot rod built in Finland, ever!

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Some Swedish school has some teacher who teaches his/hers students just the right things! Metalshaping for hot rods! It seems that they have Lazze's book where is being taught how to create sheetmetal for '33-'34 Ford from flat sheet.

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.      Talented Finnish pinstriper Nivala took his "Twistin' 28" to the show.

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 "Twistin' -28 Long Drinks" -now in a can!

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Biggest winner of the event was hot rod named Juxtapod. Read more here http://juxtapodhotrod.blogspot.com/

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