the wonderful hand made car parts (and baseball gloves!) trophy variety at the Friends of Steve McQueen car show at the Chino Hills Boys Republic

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a new side mirror costs about 100 bucks from a dealership. I don't know how much your pride in your cars appearance is worth though when you use sheet metal screws, binder twine, or purple duct tape

I took these photos over the time of one week. They are all within 10 blocks of each other 

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the barnfind Evinrude outboard powered bicycle, up close with details. Found in the Don Laughlin Museum exhibit

my best guess is that the outboard motor, through a flex drive, operates a reduction gear housing hidden from view by the front fender, but the drive wheel can be seen riding on the front wheel in the above photo, through a cut out in the fender. An idler wheel rolls a v drive belt via a shaft, and that spins the cooling fan in front of the radiator.

this might have been stored since the moment some mom had the scare of her life seeing her boy ride it.

Evinrude seems to have made, or licensed its name to bicycles: http://thecabe.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?16024-Finally-find-a-good-bike-and-its-a-darned-boys-bike&p=79860#post79860

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Model T race car in the early stages of getting built, from swap meet parts mostly..

I just love the colors, blue body, flat black rims... and the choice of rim! Period correct, even Ford specific

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