Racing Storm Trooper 
Racing Caps 
Racing Storm Trooper
From the 1905 Catalog, Distinctive Automobile Garments & Requisites: Exclusive Imported and Domestic Models for Men, Women and Children
via Mister Crew.
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Category: Racing Ephemera
I know there’s no way to please everyone with this sort out countdown. But there’s a lot they got wrong. Where’s the Cunningham team? Where are the Targa Florio 908s? Where are the Chapparals? Perhaps I’ve given too much away already…Still worth a look. Still worth a look.
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Wedges and Curves
It just looks wrong, doesn’t it?
Porsche means curves, and while the wedge design element became such a defining shape of the 70s, it just doesn’t work for me on the Giorgetto Giugiaro designed Porsche Topiro concept. Maybe that’s why they had to pair it with curves on the stage.
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Help Finance More “GT Racer”
The producers of the marvelous TV series GT Racer have found themselves in an unfortunate position. Despite the popularity of the show and the devotion of fans, the networks that have financed the show are in their own financial troubles. As a result, GT Racer has fallen out of production.
Thankfully, they’ve turned to Kickstarter to try and let the fans finance the show directly. I love this approach and hope that they’ll meet their goal of the $6,000 required for post-production of their trip to the Portimão GP. You can contribute to the cause on their donation page, with gifts and accolades at various donation levels.
I want to see more GT Racer. You want to see more GT Racer. Let’s make it happen.
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On/Off
Death Spray Custom captured a quirky gallery of the ubiquitous “on-off” battery switches on their trip to Bonneville Speed Week. I’ve always been a sucker for these kinds of detail galleries.
via Good Old Valves
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Quarter Mile Miniskirts
Why contemporary fashion photographers and art directors haven’t continued to place fashion in the least delicate of settings, I couldn’t say, but when the editors of Vogue decided to stage this shoot at the Irwindale Raceway for their April ’67 issue they hit upon something magical. The juxtaposition is beyond perfect. Particularly in the mod looks featured here, the contrast of the minimal but space-aged fashions with the madness of the drags cannot be beat.
Complete spread at Just a Car Guy via Bubble Visor. Hot as hell.
What a tremendous drag that The Stig’s identity has been outed in British court. I won’t reveal it here, but if you’re interested a search will tell all. Boo!
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Manilla Garage Envy
Lurking around the boards on The Garage Journal is always a great way to completely destroy your productivity. It’s packed with ideas for your next garage project—or fantasy. Abstamaria’s garage in the Philippines is enough to make you go completely mad with envy—at least it was for me. The you-could-eat-off-it floor; the expanding archive shelving for spare parts (!); the endless row of tool storage; it’s modernist nirvana. Corbu would be proud.
The restraint in keeping the walls free from racing posters is beyond the control I’d be able to exhibit, but it serves to make the cars the centerpiece of this space. At first glance, to call it a mere ‘garage’ is almost an insult. The fact that this is a working garage with an impressive array of tools and spares means that to call it a ‘gallery’ is the truer insult. Well done, sir.
Not bad taste in cars either.
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Slot Cars are Serious Business
Dress codes will be enforced.