Night Rider

My Scalextric Boss 302 Mustang which I have repainted matt black and fitted sidepipes handmade from ally tube. Just need to fit a light kit and whack some number decals on the doors and it'll be ready to race. Gonna set some record lap times with this beasty, it go's like s*%t off a shovel!

Look, No Motorways!

Yes, there was a time when Spaghetti junction was nothing but a dream.

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Tell all the people
in their cars
to go home & love their loved ones
There’s no recommended daily dose
for hydrocarbons

Praise the Lord
& pass the paracetamol

How do you resist the irresistable?

Mom & Dad are welded
to the telly
in the living room
Praying that their lucky dip
gets lucky

Praise the Lord
& pass the paracetamol

How do you escape the inescapable?

How do you resist the irresistable?

Tell al the residents
in St Cements
they’ll soon be
with their loved ones
Waiting for their turn to hit the highway

Praise the Lord
& pass the paracetamol

How do you explain the inexplicable?

How do you escape the inescapable?

How do you resist the irresistable?

All things must pass.

Back to the garden

Peekaboo Peugeot.

Austin Healy 3000

When my Mom worked in a hotel on Jersey in the late 50s the local lads would take her and her mates out for high speed drives in their Austin Healys around the Islands derestricted roads.

It's a miracle I'm here!

Road Trip

Cars need roads:

If it wasn't for those pesky kids!!!

At your service.

Move over Rover

We shall not see their like again.

Somewhere on the back straight @ LBMRC

Ford Anglia, Lotus Cortina & VW Beetle.

Little Bromley

If these were real we'd be talkin' £3m at least.

Ahh the joys of minature motor racing!

Stitch this!

A bit of welding to be done on Dans Escort RS to say the least!

Rust In Peace

A scrapyard somewhere in South Staffs 05 05 07

An entropic reminder of the transitory nature of youth.

Vauxhall Viva - Ford Cortina 1600E - Triumph 2000 TC.

Rice Sleds 01 (Fly Away in my Silver Bluebird)

Compare and contrast.

PDH 94 R

Opel Kadett City 1.2 owned by my Mom, then sold to a colleague of my Dads who got a skinfull and parked it half way up a lampost causing severe back injuries. A copper by the way!

Mazda Blues 2007

Zimmerbrynth 02 (detail)

In the Kingdom of the Odd

Image for MZ/sdh 2007

http://www.flickr.com/photos/13357878@N02/show/

My continuing obsession.

Trucks are made fer haulin'.

Need to pick me up some balin' wair and some kerosene.

Anybody seen mah Pappy?

"&*%$"

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fuzzotronic/41710909/in/set-72157600108316729/

Bad Machine (components)

Some of the car related detritus I have collected over the years (there's a whole stack of printed material also, manufacturers brochures etc) I've been waiting for the right moment to use all this stuff.

I've got a Silver Machine.

(well me dad had one back in the early 70s)

1. 1/100 scale diecast model Ford Capri MkI photographed/manipulated and drawn over in fotoshoppe/printed onto a4 sheets cut and sellotaped together and affixed to board (primed with white acrylic) formerly used as base for model scrapyard.

2. Same process but smaller print taped to small box canvas

3. Silver Capri 2.0 S for sale in Kingstanding (not far away from where my MkII Ford Escort seized up one morning on the way to work!)

Good place for a picnic (1/32 scale)

Super Supra

Boxy but Good

Perfect for that Saturday trip to Ikea.

Oil Filter

Duwayne Technologised:

Duwaynes World 01

Some stills from the scrapyard (in no particular order):

Context: Movies 01

The Futurists

Source: Futurism, Sylvia Martin (TASCHEN 2006)

see links

Pick Up Culture

Fuzztone with Chevy C-10 Lichfield 2005

I love these utilitarian vehicles.

An American Icon exemplifying an honest work ethic and the image of good ol'boys partying on the weekend with an endless supply of Pabst Blue Ribbon and Metallica cranked up high on the stereo.

An America of the imagination I suppose. Influenced by movies and dreams of escape. Endless blacktop stretching to the horizon, Motels, Diners & Truckstops. Strange when I consider that most of the film influences that spring to mind come from work that edges towards darkness: Blue Velvet, Duel, Vanishing Point etc.

Phot Credit Eve Arnold The Misfits. Marilyn Monroe on the set of "The Misfits" Colour photograph1960

So a workhorse vehicle, faithful loadlugger, criss crossing the prairies and rolling into town. Also a symbol of freedom perhaps, taking the place of the horse as the farm hands mount of choice.

tbc

Opel Fruitless

During the 1970s and 80s my dad had mostly Opels as company cars. This has inspired an enduring and nostalgic love of the marque and I have owned several Opels myself.

See: http://www.hacoma.de/ascona-a/e_start.php

& http://www.opelgt.com/forums/

Arrival

Here you can see the board that I found in the street which I subsequently used as a base for my 1;43 scale junkyard diorama. The Caravan came from The Acme Toy Company in sunny Erdopolis and is home to my alter-ego Duwayne Almann Kellog.

PuntoPumaLandyMerc

Some small accidents. Heading for the Junkyard.