Hand made Mercedes V-12 motor made from 53 materials hand forged by 35 craftsmen in Morocco

by Eric von Hove

the whole gallery and write up at http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/08/eric-von-hove-mercedes-v12/

Nine months in the making,V12 Laraki began when van Hove dismantled a mercedes engine and then set about creating faithful reproductions of every single component, some 465 parts and 660 bolts made of casted copper.

Paul has a new piece to sell, and can be met at Goodwood or online at Automobiliart.blogspot.com

Paul's newest laser-cut illustration, showing the Shelby/Salvadori Aston Martin DBR1 which won the 1959 24 heures du Mans. 

Laser-cut from stainless steel, powder-coated green; then hand-paint the additional colours using pin-strippers paint. The hood opens to reveal laser-cut brushed stainless steel illustration of the famous inline 6-cylinder DBR1 engine. The side brackets are also laser-cut illustrations, and the back-plate is powder-coated in black crinkle finish.

The piece is very limited (10 to 25 max.) and comes in a custom-built box.Here are the specs:

22” x 13” x 3” (55.8cm x 33cm x 7.6cm)11 lbs 9 oz (5.25 kg)

$4550 CDN/£2800 GBP/€3300 EUR/$4400 USD plus shipping/fees

you might see him at Goodwood, or, you can order it at 

Paul Chenard
http://automobiliart.blogspot.com/
paul.chenard@hotmail.com
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
1 902 817-9273

www.facebook.com/automobiliart

new bureaucratic problem at the Florida DMV... suspending your license because you change your last name

thttp://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/01/florida-accuses-man-of-fraud-for-taking-wifes-name-then-backs-off/

 someone has his license "Properly" suspended by the Florida DMV, who screwed up... and had to reinstate the drivers license.

Bureaucrats. Sheesh.

learned about this at http://www.epbot.com/2013/01/my-husband-criminal.html

it took 31 days for Joy Rainey to drive from the Pacific to the Atlantic (Los Angeles to Daytona Beach) in a 1904 Curved Dash Oldsmobile

http://joy-across-america.com/journey-blog/ for her story in her own words

For the basic story http://www.washingtonpost.com/cars/would-you-drive-a-109-year-old-oldsmobile-across-the-united-states/2012/08/09/3b4f7316-e253-11e1-89f7-76e23a982d06_story.html

Anyone seen this? Some lowlife stole this awesome gravemarker/flower holder

found at https://www.facebook.com/forrest.gardner1

can horse pulled carriages go through drive throughs?

just curious

just curious, was a car insurance bill bigger or smaller relative to the car payment 10, 20, and 30 years ago?

I think (therefore I am) that it should be lower due top all the stuff insurance companies claim to have accomplished to lower car losses, lower theft rates, better car design and security, etc etc.

But have car insurance companies actually gotten to charge us car drivers more relative to the car payment?

Yes, some times I think about stuff like this, and I have no answers, and no time to research it.

Oh, all you guest post wanna be writers? Try that for a topic.