best caption I've read in a long time, "She's a good girl, crazy 'bout Elvis"

Ann Margaret, if you aren't familiar with who she is, once a long time ago, she dated Elvis, had a Vegas act, and more recently, was the love interest in the movie "Grumpy Old Men" with Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon.. Trivia, she had a billboard top ten song at age 20, it reached #4, she was discovered by George Burns, starred with Elvis at age 23, invented the phrase "Sex Kitten" and was nominated for an Oscar at age 30 after starring opposite Jack Nicholson, Steve McQueen, and got her 2nd Oscar nom after starring with John Wayne and Anthony Hopkins, and was in the Who's rock opera "Tommy" and toured with the USO through Vietnam. Hellava career.

Great source for Piaggio Ape / Vespa restoration

And look at this cool custom idea! Love the door, but I have no idea if it's an original Piaggio design or a great owner added idea.

This site http://losbirrasdeniguelas.foroespana.org/t227-restauracion-vespacar has links to other sites, sources of parts, etc...

professional photography, rarely has anything about trains, race cars, or hot rods, but I finally found a site with some to enjoy

By Reinfried Marass

By Reinfried Marass

By Juan Buhler

from http://www.photographyoffice.com/

A small sample from Ze Last Chance Garage Du 7/8 blogspot

see all the cool stuff they've put together at http://zelastchancegaragedu78.blogspot.com/

Something new in the world of 3 wheelers

No information, just a gallery of photos on http://zelastchancegaragedu78.blogspot.com/2010/11/pak-rak.html

Vespa calendar famous people, John Wayne, Cary Grant, Raquel Welch, Charleton Heston, Geraldine Chaplin

Thanks to Tim for sharing! Vespa had a damn good idea with this calendar, the added exposure and free advertisign they got by giving or loaning the scooters to famous people while they made movies was a brilliant idea, and far less costly than getting the stars paid to endorse.

Happy holidays, and merry chistmas everyone

I believe the above image was taken by Scooter McRad http://scootermcrad.blogspot.com/ last year, and is one of the best hot rod Xmas photos I've come across

images from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=750

More unusual stuff from the HAMB thread "Vintage shots from days gone by"

Annette on a scooter

Amelia Earhart with the scooter

General Eisenhower chats with Omar Bradley leaning against his '41 Clipper staff car

The outback mailman, on an enormous rig http://aso.gov.au/titles/documentaries/last-mail-birdsville/clip1/

Aerodynamic trucks and trailers

looks like a street car getting relocated

Sept 1949 Popular mechanics

Not sure what the above vehicle is

Kaiser factory that made aircraft

Ever see any racing Hudson Terraplanes before

What a great steering wheel, look slike it'a at a car show (from the I.D. board in the window)

stream lined scooter... ummm, well, it takes all kinds right?

Via: http://ottonero.blogspot.com/2009/12/ancillotti-bros.html

Bo knows publicity

Above photo from http://42ndblackwatch1881.wordpress.com/2009/07/12/well-said-well-plaid-rocker-vintage-bo-diddley/

http://thescooterscoop.blogspot.com/2007/02/bo-knows-scooters.html

from http://magneticbrain.blogspot.com/ and her calves are blocking the cool piece of pinstriping

Back in 1959 Bo Diddley released THIS darling of an album called "Have Guitar Will Travel". and the scooter is an Allstate/Cushman Jetsweep

did you ever think the a jukebox maker would go into scooter production? The Rock-ola

for more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooter_(motorcycle)

image via: http://wizbangblue.com/2009/06/18/rockola-built-more-than-just-jukeboxes.php that also tells about it, and that it only had a 1 hp engine, and in the front of the driver the hood opens and looks to be designed for use as a ice cream delivery 3 wheeler

A bit of this and that from here and there, can't recall where I found all of them

Robert Williams (kulture artist) had one impressive collection of German WW1 helmets Via: MC Art

Lettered in the Von Dutch style of obvious humor... love it! From Mr Jalopy

1908 Indian Torpedo Tank Racer

This image was on Pixdaus, but i don't recognize the car maker. What struck me as worthy of posting was the winch, bolted on front bumper and rope... why?

I love this funky can and bottle opener

1947 Salibury from MC Art

1965 Austin Mini Wildgoose