What's up you RADICAL ROH ROHS and welcome to today's AUTOMOTIVE POP CULTURE! All-New Art launches with Ed Fox's KUSTOM NOOKIE WAGON!! Had this car at our show over the weekend and it'll be on display at the 2025 ART CENTER CAR CLASSIC INVITATIONAL September 28th! Come see it!
DID YOU KNOW?? The Volkswagen bus (also known as the Type 2, Kombi or Bulli) is that its first engine was only 25 horsepower, the same as a Beetle. And to give it enough torque to move its heavier weight, engineers used a special type of rear axle called portal axles, which were originally developed for a wartime vehicle to provide more ground clearance. It wasn't created by a Volkswagen engineer, but by a Dutch importer. While touring the Wolfsburg factory, he saw a makeshift parts-hauler and sketched out an idea that would eventually become the iconic Type 2 Van. Inspired by the Plattenwagen's efficiency, Ben Pon drew a rough sketch in his notebook of a box-shaped van with the driver sitting in the very front. Though it took some time for the busy factory to act on the idea, Pon's original sketch became the foundation for the famous Volkswagen Type 2... which went into production in 1950.
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SUPERHOME #40 is featured on today's Blog direct from the hidden desert of Palm Springs! This Evil Lair looks traditional Mid-Century but hides 18 sub-levels and a 30 Car Garage featuring 12 of George Jetson's Original Flying Crafts! (Plus, one of Rosie's) An underground LAZY RIVER and one level dedicated just for Dogs and run by the infamous CANINE X. Fireball's Chief of Security. The whole house up top can descend 'Pancake-Style' into the ground for an eventual TRIBBLES ALIEN ATTACK. You know... just in case. Oh, and it's got a Gym 'cause when you're Evil, you gotta stay in shape.
PLUS, Fireball checks out James Hetfield's Collection at the PETE, Shoots KNIGHT RIDERS on the streets of El Segundo, visits the original CHARIOT from LOST IN SPACE and ponders the NEXT JAMES BOND SCOOTMACHINE! Does the Sub need to come back??
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