Author Archives: Chompsky
Hot Wheels
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Behold: what was once a 1956 Citroën 2CV – hot-rodded by auto enthusiast Olli Erkkila
Taking the decaying shell of a Deux Chevaux he found in the woods, Olli extended the wheelbase, chopped the roof, reformed the canvas soft top to fit, replaced the original 9bhp 375cc block with an updated 2CV engine and added black spoked wheels from a 1930s Ford – the original ‘hot rod’ of the species.
Kris Piss
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Lower Leeson Street, Dublin 2.
The poster for last month’s (canceled/postponed) tribute gig to the late great Andrew Weatherall at The Sugar Club still in place and staying that way.
Good.
(Pix: Oisín Kane)
A reminder from The School Of Life that there’s no such thing as ‘not being able’ to dance. To wit:
…the whole point is to move about wildly without shame – and that in doing so, we connect with others and with important forgotten bits of ourselves.
Previously: Keep Emotionally Mature And Carry On
An eye-candiful short by Henning M. Lederer (who has much form in this regard) based on the question:
How would these great book graphics and record covers from the past look like when set in motion?
Posh Pets
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Behold: C/1861 G1, or comet Thatcher – part of Earth’s annual Lyrid meteor shower, which peaked before dawn yesterday. To wit:
In crisp, clear and moonless predawn skies over Brown County, Indiana this streak of vaporising comet dust briefly shared a telephoto field of view with stars and nebulae along the Milky Way. Alpha star of the constellation Cygnus, Deneb lies near the bright meteor’s path along with the region’s dark interstellar clouds of dust and the recognizable glow of the North America nebula (NGC 7000). The meteor’s streak points back to the shower’s radiant, its apparent point of origin on the sky. That would be in the constellation Lyra, near bright star Vega and off the top edge of the frame.
(Image: Zolt Levay)
Hot Wheels
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Behold: the 1964 Pontiac Banshee XP-333 – a Mustang-killing show car designed by one John DeLorean (a division head of Pontiac at that time).
Despite fears that it would eclipse the Corvette, this coupe would influence the Corvette’s redesign in1968, having lent styling details to the Firebird the previous year. Only one Banshee was ever made and this is it – still in mint condition with about 2400km on the clock.
Yours for about €690,000.