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I tell you what, my latest junkyard haul has me considering a name change to Brougham E. Landau (the E stands for Eleganté, with the accent). More »
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Look, folks, if you're going the donk route, do it right! It's like having a dekotora- do you want subtlety or restraint? Of course you don't! You want to put big jeweled emblems advertising your donk's wheel size, preferably all over the car, but at least on the fenders. Iced Out Emz has a vast selection of such emblems, available for 20s all the way up to monster-truck-esque 30s; you can choose "diamonds," "emeralds," "rubies" and so on. Thing is, what if you're donking a Honda 600? 15" wheels would be considered donkworthy in that case, but unfortunately no 15" emblems are available. – Murilee Martin More »
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If you're a classy fella looking to impress the frauleins with your distinctive sense of style, you can't go wrong by attaching this beautiful scoop to the hood of your Manta. Be sure to install it using drywall screws! Sorry, matching wing not included. We can feel bristly blond Teutono-Mullets sprouting on our domes, just by looking at this thing! – Murilee Martin More »
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Bam, it hits you in the face with all dat chrome. This rolling bling hole is an Isotta Franschini 8A that was built in 1933 and is one of three completed and two surviving. A bling hole? Well, that's something with so much bling, no attention around it can escape its bling field, think Mr. T in his heyday. All eyes are diverted away from other bling and towards the Isotta, I mean, it's so balla that it's captured the sun. Strangely, its first owner was comedian Joe Panner, who must have been running shine on the side because this baby cost $20,000 in 1933. I'll save you the effort, that's about $285,645 in today's money. Dayum, that guy must have been the Jay Leno of his time (Jay, call me). – Ben Wojdyla More »
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Some say we're living in a new Gilded Age, wherein a small number of unconscionably wealthy and flamboyant individuals lord their riches over the insolvent, who cower in their presence. Then again, maybe it's just that a few knuckleheads with MasterCards keep throwing off the meters. We may never know. Well, maybe we will. – Mike Spinelli More »
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It's said these 24k gold plated springs were originally fashioned for a customer in Dubai, who wanted his Ferrari F430 Spyder to stand out among the emirate's patently ungilded supercars. Now, H&R Springs, which came up with the plating process, is offering the springs for a premium of 2,000 euros over the cost of stock springs. You just know the next car to sport these will probably be worth a quarter of their value. – Mike Spinelli More »
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D'Vinci Forgiato Wheels worked up these transparent rollers made of Lexan or something. The reps say they're roadworthy, though we might have a problem with cleaning the brake dust off everytime we go out for groceries. Rolling fly is such a pain in the ass. [Gallery] More »
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Oh bugger. Did we really need 28" dubs embedded with your choice of zircs or diamonds? Apparently, some company called Yokebir thinks we do, and they've delivered their 924 Shock & Awe Series to do just that. We doubt that the "924" has anything to do with 924 Gilman Street, but we'd love to see what the teenage punkers hanging outside the club would think of these. In our day, they would've been done in like Jello Biafra. But the kids these days, with their Travis Barkers and whatnot, well, we just don't know. And that, frankly, makes us a little sad. More »
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Last night when we strolled down to the bodega, we got chit-chatting to an artist-type who bummed a smoke off of us. While we were talking, some hip-hop type walked up to us and bummed another smoke. Not a big deal except that dude had an LED-impregnated belt-buckle that spelled out various things a-la the side of the Goodyear Blimp (which was, we shit you not, actually flying overhead at the moment) to go along with the rest of his jewelry. Our first thought was that this was an absolute violation of the rules of fashion. Our second was that he was bigger than us, so we said nothing. But had we been in Leicestershire, we totally coulda called the fuzz on his well-lit ass. Which kinda scares us. More »
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Asanti. Lexani. They sound like the names of ghetto-fabulous toddlers, but for those not hip to the urban revolution chronicled in the pages of magazines like DUB and King, they're actually manufacturers of so-called "luxury alloys," with Asanti standing as Lexani's ber-lux brand. Think it couldn't get more gauche? Check yo' head, childrens, because shit's about to get weird: Asanti has introduced a set of diamond-encrusted 22-inchers that run a cool mil for a set of four. The upside? They come with a free Bentley Continental GT; essentially a $150,000 rebate. We intentionally avoided the company's booth at the SEMA show, afraid that our inner punk would begin lobbing eggs at the display of pure automotive garishness. More »
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Overeducated white dudes attempting to roll gangsta always bring to mind the implicit indictment of such behavior in Mike Judge's brilliant Office Space, but this vid's pretty funny anyway. Culled from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas clips, King of the Ghetto reminds us a bit of the days in suburbia when young boys would do things like hooking up a Colecovision to a VCR in order to critique their baseball performance. Still, lots of stuff blows up and there are a few choice lines, so it's worth checking out. Oh and by the way, while in San Francisco, we saw a grab 'n' go frankfurter stand called "What's Up, Dog?" Apparently, our mileage must be varying considerably. [Thanks to Mojito for the tip.] [Update: They changed the links. Find the new one here.] More »
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We fully admit that we don't understand LA. We like it, but it intrigues and perplexes us like a hunter-killer sloth. Colette Brooks, an ad agency owner who masterminded Hollywoodwood celebs showing up at the Oscars in her corporate fleet of Priuses (Priii?), also has a thing for big American cars. Not badass machines like Firebirds, Chevelles and Road Runners, but land yachts like '70s Cadillacs. Preferably blinged out and powered by biodiesel. More »
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