1971 Datsun 510

Got a lot of American Muscle up here so far.. So here's something a kind of different!

Pretty nice little coupe. I wouldn't mind owning it. Only complaint about this dinky car, and I do mean my ONLY complaint because everything on this car is perfect.. But I don't like how the rubber tires aren't stuck to the rims! I like to drift this badboy, but when I get er goin the tires slide inwards and off the rims.. then I have to pick it up and slide the tires back on and it ruins my fun.

But other than that.. the paint scheme is wicked, the rims are cool, rubber tires are a big plus, the rear bumper is actually a little piece of plastic (nice touch), as well as the front bumper and grill.. The for sale sign is brilliant. All in all a decent little car made by www.Jadatoys.com

You better build em Tough!

Cause this is how we treat them...

Yes that's a foot. A little 3 year old foot. It's crazy how much he reminds me of myself sometimes. Anyways, as you can tell we're kind of hard on our cars. That's sand underneath!

I'll get another picture of this car up soon because it's actually one of my favorites. Who am I kidding, almost all of them are my favorites.. I bought them to hang on my garage wall before I decided to grow a miniature me! And as you can now tell by this picture, we're just trying to send them back to the earth from which they came.

Have a good week anybody who's reading this.

1974 Dodge Charger, and Lemurs

When I was younger a friend of mine showed up one day in an old Dodge and asked if I wanted to go for a ride. Yea, just let me finish watching this wildlife documentary on Madagascar lemurs, I said without taking my eyes off the tv. I think it's about to rain, and they really need the water right now cause of this drought, and.. Well I'm not sitting around watching lemurs on tv, he cut in. If you're coming let's go! And so it went, my love of cars won. I peeled my eyes away from the screen, mumbled something under my breath about how my friend would never understand the plight of the average lemur, put on my boots and walked outside to see the car that would provide me with one of the most scariest moments of my life!

At first it was nothing special. I mean, it was nice don't get me wrong. But there was no hole in the hood for the engine to poke through, the tires looked like all seasons, there was no flame paint job, and what are those.. 15" rims? Everybody knows the bigger the rims the faster the car. And this thing was a boat! There was no way we were getting wherever we were going fast.

Let's go, I said. Let's see what she got! I opened the door to the passenger side, which felt like if I didn't hold on to the handle it would fall to the ground from its own weight. And shutting the door was no better. You'd think such a heavy door would have needed a good wallop to shut properly.. Boy was I wrong. And boy did my friend let me know it when he heard the thing bang. Sorry, I said. What's with this car! I was starting to think I should have just stayed inside and found out whether or not those lemurs got that rain water they needed so much. But then he started the engine..

I felt myself straighten up a little, in my seat. You would have thought there was a grizzly bear in the back seat when this thing started. Well at least it's got a good exhaust system, I said. Yea, he chuckled. As I rolled my window down, I noticed the shifter looked different than most cars I have seen before. What's that, I asked. Pistol grip shifter, he said. Pistol grip, I asked. And that's when it hit me. Not the realization that this car meant business, although that was clear enough, but what hit me was the seat I was sitting in. As my friend slammed his "pistol grip" shifter into first, that seat I was sitting in was about the only thing in this car that made sense anymore. It was like somebody shot me out of a cannon on a little bucket seat.

I was permanently stuck in that seat, leaning somewhat towards the door, hoping to God I slammed it shut hard enough that it wasn't going to pop open! Because I could hear the road moving past my door. I could hear the rubber tires buckling under the pressure, propelling all this weight forward, not enough to break free, just pushing that edge. I could hear the lives of little pebbles being ground to a fine dust as this monster car used them to rocket itself into the next dimension. And just when I thought it couldn't get any scarier, my friend shifted into 2nd, and let out a big "WOOHOO" while he did. How dare he! Here I was probably gonna need a fresh pair of underwear and he lets out a "WOOHOO"?!

Anyways, as I lurched forward for that split second I remember thinking "oh good, I'll just roll this window up".. Because of that open window my face and ears were feeling the full effect of mach infinity speeds. Blindfolded your senses would have told you were either in a wind tunnel built to simulate hurricane conditions, or strapped to the front of a jet airplane!! But I barely finished the thought as my friend Slammed his foot back down on the gas, sending me hurdling back into my seat, and sending my out stretched left arm which was reaching for the window, back into my chest. So there I was, stuck in the same position I was in all through 1st gear, except this time I had my left arm pinned to my chest by impossible g-forces. How can this car be moving this fast, I thought. I also thought about how freaked out a lemur would be if he was chillin in the back seat right now. Ha, lemurs.

Finally the madness ended. My friend let off the throttle. My arm let off my chest. The seat let off my back. My friend looked at me and said, Pretty sweet eh?! That's when I looked him straight in the eye and said.. It's alright.

Up Periscope!

If you know what I mean, lol. I've wanted a lowrider like this since I was a little boy. If sparks don't fly you're too high, low and slow, all that!

This is a 1959 Impala, with a crazy pink pearl paint job, white interior, and gold rims. Pretty sick looking if you ask me. The front end is chromed, not painted, so the detail is really nice. But unfortunately the back end is painted, and that's why you don't see any shots of the teardrop brake lights, or tail fins from the rear. Hot Wheels just whacked a coat of sexy pink pearl paint over top of everything back there, giving it a kind of "bubbly" look. Not good.

Also I can't decide if I'm for or against the "Hot Wheels" decal on the rear covers.. Not sure it goes with the rest of the vibe this car is giving off. Maybe if it was more of a retro Hot Wheels logo, or just the words "Hot Wheels" in a cool retro font, but not the logo we see on all the other cars they make. This one is different guys. This isn't your "shark on wheels" or your "toilet" car. This is your "you girls need a ride? I'm headed that way" car, and I hope you all get the reference.

Okay I just decided, I'm against the "Hot Wheels" decal on the rear wheel covers. BUT, something I love is the checkered flags, that you might miss if you're not giving this car the attention it deserves, stenciled in the pin striping just behind the doors. Sweet!

All in all, a pretty good looking little car though. One of my favorites for sure.

Dino Rider!

Playing cars today, I ended up with a pretty nice little lowrider in my hands, and seeing as we don't own too many lowriders I thought it'd be a good one to share here.

As I snapped a couple quick shots for the blog, the heat kind of got to me. So I got up, ran into the kitchen for the biggest drink of water I could find (turns out it's not a cup but a popcorn bucket), only to come back out and find my full-of-awesome little boy treating the car I've loved my entire life, or at least the last forty-five seconds of it, as if it were a toy dinosaur. Roaring and all. It's moments like these that make me proud to be a male.

Needless to say, the cars moment in the spotlight was over. All that remained was a sad and dusty dinosaur laying on its side. And as I took a sip of ice cold water from my popcorn bucket, I snapped one last picture. Because dinosaurs are cool, that's why!

I'll post the pre-prehistoric (see what I did there) pictures up here soon :)

"Fresh Metal"

So a little while back somebody gave my boy, I think it was a five pack of dinky cars by Maisto. Most of the cars in the pack felt cheap and never received any attention from myself, and to be honest I would even suggest other cars to my son whenever he would grab one of "those cars" lol. They quickly became the cars to beat up on, for fun, and to see how much damage they could withstand. Then one day, I got stuck with this one...

And then it all made sense. The reason these cars were so crappy is because this one truck took all the cool that was in the box, and left none for the others! This car is the bully that took your lunch money and left you in the yard with slumped shoulders and what the rest of the kids thought was a tear forming in your eyes, but you told them it was just allergies.. (no in all seriousness tho, I hate bullies.. maybe that means I hate this truck now)

No I still like it.

Is anyone else remembering the movie "Honey I Shrunk the Kids" right about now? By the way, this one is a Hummer Hx Concept, by Maisto.

Mystery car, a good surprise!

Ever see these "Mystery" boxes for sale? I did and bought two! So this weekend we opened one of them, and I was kind of surprised to find a fairly decent car inside..

The car is called "Fish'd & Chip'd". I think it's a Bentley, but I'm not positive. It's a right hand drive and has a tray in front of the passenger sitting directly behind the driver. Also some pretty sweet rims!

I love the "Hot Wheels" detail given to the rear window, and the yellow tint is proper for that paint.. Add some wicked pin striping and all in all you've got yourself a pretty slick street cruiser. Way to go Hot Wheels, I'm impressed.