Mutate Now » vintage http://www.mut8.org mutation = survival Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:17:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 2010 Monterey Historics Reunion Racing [Photos] http://www.mut8.org/historics-reunion-photos/08/2010/ http://www.mut8.org/historics-reunion-photos/08/2010/#comments Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:51:38 +0000 Molli Fire http://www.mut8.org/?p=1195 Laguna Seca became a wonderland over the last two weekends as the racetrack filled with rare and beautiful specimens of classic racecars. Race teams & passionate individuals all set up shop around the California circuit to participate/practice for the Pre-Reunion and Reunion races. Here’s photos from the 2 events plus a few from the weeks of preparation leading up to the 4-day Reunion August 12-15th 2010:

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classic 1940's hot rod 1940's hot rod built by Jay Itel blue interior of 1940's custom hot rod a sleek Bugatti sports car engine inside the Bugatti sports car Jay Leno looking at a classic car Jay Leno looks under the hood of a classic car Jay Leno looking at tail of a classic car shiny silver, bare metal vintage race car vintage race cars lined up under tent Red Lobster race car and more under the VP tent tail of Red Lobster race car a 6-wheeled formula 1 car Formula 1 car with 6 wheels built for the Tyrell racing team rear engine on a car driven by Dan Gurney race car driven by Dan Gurney detail of a vintage racing engine a white open-wheeled race car on display at Monterey Historics detail of a racing engine close up of decals and safety wire on vintage race car white open-wheeled race car Dan Gurney Cars At 2010 Monterey Historics Reunion Dan Gurney Cars At 2010 Monterey Historics Reunion Dan Gurney Cars At 2010 Monterey Historics Reunion Dan Gurney Cars At 2010 Monterey Historics Reunion Dan Gurney Cars At 2010 Monterey Historics Reunion Dan Gurney Cars At 2010 Monterey Historics Reunion Dan Gurney Cars At 2010 Monterey Historics Reunion Bobby Unser Car At 2010 Monterey Historics Reunion Bobby Unser Car At 2010 Monterey Historics Reunion Bobby Unser Car At 2010 Monterey Historics Reunion Bobby Unser Car At 2010 Monterey Historics Reunion Bobby Unser Car At 2010 Monterey Historics Reunion close-up of names painted on race car 2010 Monterey Historics Reunion Bobby Unser Car At 2010 Monterey Historics Reunion Bobby Unser Car At 2010 Monterey Historics Reunion Bobby Unser Car At 2010 Monterey Historics Reunion blue open-wheel Formula Ford car dark blue number 48 painted on light blue Formula Ford race car blue open-wheel Formula Ford race car blue Formula Ford car on display in front of a photo of it in action on the track mechanic working on race engine vintage Formula 1 performance engine Driver Autograph on Williams Saudia F1 Car close up of engine in an historic formula 1 car black and gold F1 car with racing slicks sign with info about March 741 and Hans-Joachim Stuck Jr. info about the March 741 F1 car, driven by Hans Stuck Historic March 741 Jagermeister F1 Car pix of Stuck and Brambilla on an info sign info sign about the March 741 F1 car photo collection of vintage F1 drivers' wives black and red race car with Tom Pryce's name painted on it black and gold John Player Special car black and gold John Player Special car Lotus 77 info poster white and green Formula 1 car 2 vintage white and green F1 cars info poster about the Williams FW08C cars and drivers info poster about the Lotus 79 black and gold Renault JPS car black and gold John Player Special race car close-up of a Cosworth engine green and white Williams Saudia cars black and gold Renault JPS car black and gold Renault race car green open-wheeled formula junior car green formula junior car suspension on green formula junior car green open wheeled formula junior race car red F1 Ferrari detail of Ferrari engine in an F1 car Amon and Rodriguez names painted on F1 Ferrari detail of exhaust pipes coming out of F1 Ferrari engine driver's seat in a Formula 1 Ferrari close up of Cosworth engine close up of AN hardware on racing engine race car with engine visible a white and a yellow Osella race car trying to pass each other vintage orange F1 car with racing slicks and wings cockpit of vintage McLaren F1 car a blue and an orange vintage F1 car on display nose of McLaren in foreground, March in background vintage F1 cars on display in between races vintage F1 cars lined up on grid before race 1970 McLaren M14 plus team members getting ready to race info poster for 1970 March 701 F1 car info poster for the 1970 McLaren M14 vintage F1 car info poster for the 1974 March vintage F1 car sponsored by Jagermeister Vintage F1 March 701 Vintage F1 Tom Pryce Car vintage race cars line up on grid a vintage race car with number 87 on door a vintage race car with number 111 on the door red race car with number 211 on the door blue race car with number 17 on the door white race car with number 41 on the door Vintage Race Cars At Laguna Seca Vintage Race Cars At Laguna Seca Vintage Race Cars At Laguna Seca Vintage Race Cars At Laguna Seca Vintage Race Cars At Laguna Seca gold Bertone logo on white car

More to come, still uploading!!

]]> http://www.mut8.org/historics-reunion-photos/08/2010/feed/ 2 Vintage Car Ads [Photo Collection] http://www.mut8.org/vintage-car-ads/04/2010/ http://www.mut8.org/vintage-car-ads/04/2010/#comments Mon, 12 Apr 2010 01:31:15 +0000 Molli Fire http://www.mut8.org/?p=754 This is an ongoing collection of vintage car ads. We’ll add more as we find them and you can add to the collection via the comments section!

a 1978 ad for Quaker State Motor Oil ad for 1977 Ford Pinto ad for interior of Ford Maverick circa 1973 ad for Ford Maverick car circa 1973 snow being wiped from a 1969 Pontiac GTO by the U.S. Ski Team ad for the 1969 Pontiac GTO Judge ad for the 1969 GTO Judge ad for the 1968 Shelby Cobra GT ad for the 1955 Plymouth ]]> http://www.mut8.org/vintage-car-ads/04/2010/feed/ 0 Muscle Cars & The Women Who Love Them http://www.mut8.org/aussie-women-love-muscle-cars/03/2010/ http://www.mut8.org/aussie-women-love-muscle-cars/03/2010/#comments Fri, 26 Mar 2010 04:38:10 +0000 Molli Fire http://www.mut8.org/?p=535 You know my bias on this one – I’m 100% female and I love muscle cars with a passion. Of course, I’m not the only girl who likes the cars that go VROOM! Occasionally it warrants a full article, this time from an Aussie perspective:

“The women who are really into it tend to be more emotionally attached than men,” Harry Christian, of Australian Muscle Car Sales, says. “They tend to be abnormally fanatical about their muscle cars – it’s not typically a female thing but the ones who do sway that way get right into it.”

Read more @ Motor News – Female car enthusiasts.

a girl and her muscle car

Comet Queen in SF

]]> http://www.mut8.org/aussie-women-love-muscle-cars/03/2010/feed/ 0 1973 Mercury Comet – A Girl’s Best Friend http://www.mut8.org/1973-mercury-comet-bff/11/2009/ http://www.mut8.org/1973-mercury-comet-bff/11/2009/#comments Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:19:11 +0000 Molli Fire http://www.mut8.org/?p=286 My latest obsession: muscle cars circa 1930-79

I’ve always been a tomboy, always will be. In high school, while most gals my age were obsessing over Seventeen Mag and picking out prom dresses, I was drooling over my neighbor’s GTO Judge and pulling parts out of my boyfriend’s Trans Am for rebuilding. My environmental awareness took root in college and I switched to diesels that I could modify to run on veggie oil and became a DIY tour bus mechanic. A decade later, I’m finally living out my teen fantasies of owning and restoring my very own muscle car – a 1973 Mercury Comet with Ford’s 5.0L 302 c.i. V8 engine. Everyone has different opinions on what makes one muscle car better than the other and everyone has their 1st loves as well as their daily drivers. I don’t think many people would place the Comet in their top 3 fave muscle cars, but I’m not most people. All I know is I LOVE this car!!! For me, personally, it’s perfect. Small enough for just me, big enough for double dating. Fast enough to get me in trouble, fast enough to get me out of trouble. And it may not look like a pageant queen right now, but someday it will be CANDY! With that in mind, I intend to enjoy/punish the body and engine until it dies. Then rebuild it from the frame up.

My friend Twelver came over on the 1st day I had the car at home and snapped some sweet “Before” pix:

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