OUCH! race them, but don't wreck them! Everybody repeat after me, shiny side up, rubber side down!

For the whole story and photo gallery: http://lowtechblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/down-and-dirty-in-germany.html

I just stumbled across a bad news photo... the Mastersons Kustoms "Genuine imported Brazilian female orangutan underam hair carpet" is wrecked

Above photo I took at this springs Beatnik Blowout

the news and photo are terrible, my consolations to the owner, and hopes that no one was hurt. Smashed photo from http://400bc.blogspot.com/2010/10/please.html who asks that we be careful out there

Update: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUn9cyYlcvw&feature=player_embedded the video owner disabled our ability to post the video here, but it's extensively filmed the wrecked custom.
The driver lost control and smashed into the back of a big rig in North Long Beach. The car was going northbound on Paramount Blvd at a high rate of speed at the time of the accident. A car show trophy was seen on seen of the crash. Long Beach PD is investigating accident as a psssible DUI. The passenger had to be cut of the car. Both the passenger and the driver were transported to local hospitals. The classic car was a total loss.

This ruined someone's day.

I wish the story of what the car was doing on a transporter was with the photo, and what caused it to go over the front end, but the world may never get closure on this mystery. Damn shame it happens and wrecks a cool car and a group of people's day. The owner, the driver, the insurance guy, and the potential new owner if there was one.

Found at http://prova275.tumblr.com/post/826046537/easy-fix-2

when your rear wheel parts company with your race car and passes you in the turn, it must be Monday

Photo from http://5window.tumblr.com/ I think, it might have been http://motomania.tumblr.com/ ... I can't recall.

Funniest photo I've seen all day. While I'm on the topic; overheard at the car show today " this girl asked if she could get in my Minerva, so I said "Sure go ahead".. and waited til she was halfway in, and then said "I'm sure the owner won't mind . . . " and she freaked out.

Not going to end well for this Testarossa

from http://gearsandmonkeys.tumblr.com

restored tourist attraction steam locomotive was heavily damaged by derailing and falling on it's side because thieves removed the railroad ties

The locomotive – which dedicated volunteers spent many years restoring to working order – was substantially damaged.

The railroad ties are wood planks about 8 inches tall by 12 inches wide and “tie” the rails to the trackbed. Without sleepers, the rails would spread and topple under the weight of a train – which is what happened (interesting to me for the breadth of information about the variety of railroad ties: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_tie and for an intriguing photo and information about railroad ties being baked in creosote http://www.shorpy.com/node/7900?size=_original )

The stolen ties were made from hard Australian yarra wood, and are highly prized for making furniture – and sometimes for firewood – and in recent years, railway lines all over South Africa have been targeted by sleeper thieves. Some lines have lost so many sleepers that they have been closed since the cost of replacement has been deemed uneconomic.

Yesterday’s derailment happened on a line that sees many tourist trains during the year. The thieves don’t really care about the consequences, either for innocent passengers or for tourism as a whole. The cost of repairing the locomotive will be a heavy burden for the club which receives no funding other than what it earns from running tourist trains. The cost of repairing the damaged track will run into many thousands of rand – and Transnet is not keen to spend money looking after lines that are not part of its core network.

http://blogs.timeslive.co.za/wanderer/2010/06/21/thieves-derail-train-and-give-sa-tourism-a-kick-in-the-head/
via http://tukkers.blogspot.com/ which is NSFW (not safe for work)

It was said best by the "Grenade Inspector" who uttered "God Damn Trees!"

Before and afters rarely make you so happy, just look at the next couple photos to see how awesome this was made after that tree jumped in front of the hot rod

Above photo from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=486972 below photos I took at the LA Roadster show

Bad train wreck, great photo

I don't know the source

What a sorry sight, rear wheel taco'd, windscreen and steering broken, and that must be due to the tree that busted up the front suspension

via: http://t-s-k-b.tumblr.com/

These photos have been running around the internet awhile, this motorbike inserted itself at high speed into this VW killing everyone

More about the story (from 2005) here http://www.snopes.com/photos/accident/seemotorcycle.asp

if you have more money than sense, you can buy this wreck for 22 thou, and probably blow 200,000 thou to get it restored

The restoration company that is desperate to sell this wreck (worse in person than in the photo) wants 22 thou, but if you'll blow all your nest egg on restoring it in their shop so they can stay in business and put their kids through college, they'll knock 30 percent off and you can then call it yours (as long as they profit on the restoration) for 15 thou

bad days at the track happen, at least these were great photo ops

via: http://pacepirate.tumblr.com/

Make an insurance company cry, show them this

via: http://micofeliciano.tumblr.com/

Awesome photos from Spritied Drive Tumbler

Burn baby burn, the devil's got your number via: http://spiriteddrive.tumblr.com/

Black and white and cool all over

Sophia Loren on the hood of a 300sl

Nixon in Paris 1957

Bumper cars at a British carnival

The concept car Ford Seattle

Dizzy Dean trying to start a 2nd career

Daytona Beach racing 1953

Train wreck Palatine Illinois 1950

Cincinatti 1950

Looks like James Dean's Porsche

Brooklyn 1955, maybe a Packard taxi

From "If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger,There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats" a blog about all pre-1970 American culture via photography http://tsutpen.blogspot.com/

This is one of the times it's ok to cry

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=322547623826#!/group.php?gid=322547623826

Jason Graham Hot Rods in Portland Tennessee burned due to a shop fire Feb 22nd 2010, about a million dollars of hot rods and equipment are a total loss

Learned about it via: http://scootermcrad.blogspot.com/2010/03/hot-rod-trajedy-captured.html

Reminds me that last August, 30 of Reggie Jackson's cars burned in a garage fire: http://www.nytimes.com/1988/08/05/us/fire-destroys-30-classic-cars-collected-by-reggie-jackson.html "Firefighters estimated damage to the building at $800,000 and to the contents at $3.2 million. The cause was not immediately determined. "

Another Enzo bites the dust, proof that rich people hate their cars

Via: http://burstsausages.com/ from Micheal Vincent's Flikr stream http://www.flickr.com/photos/29514508@N05/3418661259/

One of the most impressive photos I've seen, the Oct 1895 Granville-Paris Express wreck

The engine careened across almost 98 ft of the station concourse, crashed through a 2 foot thick wall, shot across a terrace and sailed out of the station, plummeting onto the Place de Rennes 33 ft below, where it stood on its nose. All on board the train survived, five sustaining injuries: two passengers (out of 131), the fireman and two conductors; however, one woman on the street below was killed by falling masonry. The accident was caused by a faulty Westinghouse brake and the engine drivers who were trying to make up for lost time. A conductor incurred a 25 franc penalty and the engine driver a 50 franc penalty.
Via: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Train_wreck_at_Montparnasse_1895.jpg

Reason to wear the helmet and elbow protection

Via: http://stipistop.com/

$600,000 worth of bad driving, aka, rich people hate their cars

See many more from a Russian site, use Google toolbar to automatically translate it for you, :http://www.autosite.com.ua/news_article_14597.html