Ever seen a picnic awning on a car before? Me neither, and I've seen this car in the Nethercutt Museum. Fatty Arbuckle's 1923 McFarlan

 

in the museum they just have the car parked like any other http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/04/unusual-rare-and-restored-cars-from.html

my favorite movie character name, Ford Lincoln Mercury

the guy on the left, from the movie The Postman

tailights

video of the lunar rover on the moon

found on http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2013/01/apollo-16s-lunar-roving-vehicle.html

I've only ever seen 3 of these "fatman/tilt lok" steering wheels before, and today I found 3 all at the same event...

more astonishing is that the vehicle above had it's wheel in one position, and the same wheel model below was in another car and in the opposite position, so you can compare and get an idea of how it functions so big bellied drivers could get in an out of a car

for one from last year http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/06/flip-up-steering-wheel-was-found-on.html

plus I looked through the archives, here are a couple other styles that flip up
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/02/flip-up-steering-wheel-on-model-t-i.html

and http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/09/rollaway-motor-company-made-lokwel-fat.html

the worst looking example of a project car i think I've seen, and the most astonishing restoration... which won peoples choice at the LaJolla Concours 2013

full gallery here: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2013/04/1929-packard-model-640-runabout-with.html

I talked to the owner today, and asked him about the woodlite headlights, he said that once he discovered that they were a Packard preferred accessory/optional equipment, he searched the big swap meet at Hershey or Carlisle until he found a set

Coachbuilder badges from a variety of cars at the Palos Verdes Concours

this last one is something odd in a photographic sense, the badge is silver or aluminum, and yet the reflection only shows the highest parts in silver, and shades the rest all black where there actually is none

for comparison, this painted one from another show last year

a variety of trunks and the way they were attached

on this Rolls you can see on the bottom photo how it is on a couple of pivoting arms

here is a above and below comparison of a a rack folded out with a trunk and one folded up

new trunk with good materials

the only one I saw with a makers brand

the only one that was open to show how the luggage was arranged inside and what it looked like

the variety of ways the chauferred communicated with the driver in the 1920 and 30's luxury limos