Well, the 2009 version of the Half Moon Bay Dream Machines was spectacular as usual. You just don't know what you will see there, you know you will see something to knock your socks off. For me, it was Milo from here at Hotrodders. No kidding, he is a great guy and we had quite a few laughs. Se then went looking for fish eyes in paint. Just kidding. But honestly Milo, his wife and mother were there and it was just great putting a face to Milos rambling squiggly lines. JUST KIDDING MILO lighten up.
Well, here are some photos.....
Brian
This is right before Milo cracked me in the jaw for all the times I ticked him off on the forum! JUST KIDDING!
Really was a great day despite some cooler weather. It must have dipped down into the 70s brrr considering the wind chill ...
I'd agree a highlight was meeting MartinSR, a fellow Hotrodders.com member in person. Over the years we have both participated in body & paint threads with the same motivation being to keep the DIY spirit alive and insisting the new to the hobby can get it done so do it !!
Cool stuff Milo, post more. I hope to get mine reduced this afternoon and get them on. How about those "unicycle drags"? OH MY GOD that is the lamest thing I have ever seen! Mikey, Dewey and Dan and I watched that crap last year and thought the same. But I thought maybe it was an off day or something. I was wrong, that is the LAMEST, BORING CRAP I have ever seen claiming to be exciting. Watching someone wax their car is more exciting!
Now, my son and I have came up with some ideas to liven it up a little. First, they could "Joust" with a pipe welded to each "bike" and just go at each other at full speed. The other thing would have been to just run around that grassy area being chased by the monster truck! I would pay to see that!
We were there twenty minutes and I got my "worth ticket price" experiance I always look for. The Land Speed Record area with a bunch of streamliners on display. These guys are awful nice and will expain about anything you could ever ask of them. Just amazing machines and I was having a great time learning about them. Then they took it up a knotch and asked if my son and I want to get into one of these machines! OH MY GOD, I am not kidding, I could have gotten out and walked back to my car and drove home and been happy! I got into this 367 mph streamliner and he put the canopy on and locked it into place. I could have stayed in there all day making vrrrm vrrrmmm sounds. OH MY GOD it was awsome!
Here is one where you lay prone. This one went 207 on who 50 cc motors as I remember.
Here is the side of the car with it's little thingies that break up the air on the surface of the car.
This is the motor that drops and raises the "outriggers" until it is up to speed to balance on it's own.
http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa167/BasicsofBasics/WRoutriggers.jpg
Here is the trailer they to use carry it. The guy told me they build the trailer first because they are no fun and when the car is built they don't want to have to wait.
Thanks for all the pics Brian and Milo. Sorry I missed it this year (but 2500 miles IS a long way to go for a car show). I can just FEEL Brian's grin in that shot of him in the streamer.
Dewey, give me a sandwich and a cathitor and I could have stayed in that liner all day long! I am not kidding you, if I had some extra bucks..........
Then there was the Hells Angels and their "Unicycle drags". I am sorry, this may be difficult thought it doesn't look like it. It may be a real hoot to ride one, though it doesn't look like it. It may be the thing to do on a farm out in the middle of the Ozarks, but dear GOD what a BORING thing to watch! HOLY CRAP, I gave it another five minutes or so of my life that I will never get back, only to find out that it IS just one small step more exciting than watching grass grow. One tiny bit better than watching a stock Ford Focus grudge race. It is simply BORING.
Milo, it is freaky how much we think alike. Check back at my post on the truck with the bike in the back. I took the EXACT photos you did! I mistakenly double posted the shot of the truck. I went back and put in the tailgate shot and then clicked on to the next page on this thread to see that you had posted the same thing! LOLOLOL, that is just too funny!
Where else can you be watching someone fire up Tony Nancy's sixties Top Fuel Dragster and WWII War birds are flying over you?
I didn't get any real food photos of them flying but a few were VERY close and VERY fast flybys, VERY cool!
And lets not forget this airport was once one of the fastest drag strips in the country. Ivo broke eight seconds on gas there with his twin eng Buick car.
This cool little bike was in the parking lot.
Who knows?
Every style is there, this was a very nice lowrider.
And of course the "johnny popper" motors were there, right across the isle from a Top Fuel dragster.
The Monster Rods were there. I have to say, if you lookup "Too much money" in the dictionary you will see these photos.
I stared at this "steam shovel" (for lack of the proper name). I just couldn't stop thinking of how hard our fathers and grandfathers worked! How would you like to sit on that seat for 12 hours a day?
This was a second before the truck went into a dive on the left front wheel knocking the tire off the rim. He had it back and going by the next show an hour later.
This is going to be the body on the fastest Ford flathead in the world, at least that is the plan.
How about this electric car, go to the site and check it out. It is billed as the fastest "Urban car", how about 0-60 in 4 seconds and the quarter mile in 12 at over 100 mph!!!!!!!!!!
I couldn't find the company web site but I have to tell you it had some pretty impressive slalom course results! Yes it looks like it will flip over, but like an electric fork lift, all the ballast is in the right place, at the bottom. So a HUGE majority of the weight is in the bottom 12 inches or so of the car! We are talking over a thousand pounds of batteries.
Vintage SUV, very cool. This is the first time I have seen one in the flesh, veyr cool indeed.
"Doc" Hudsons motor.
Minature fifth wheel set up.
RC planes.
My son with a giant trailer hitch ball. Funny stuff people will do isn't it?
I was told this was a very rare original "Boss Pinto" and it had some other option that had a funny seventies Ford name like "Grabber pack" or something like that. I have seen it before, very nice little car.
How about a Harley Golf cart? You see everything that moves human beings at the Half Moon Bay "Dream Machines" show. Click here
My dad (46 years old) told me that the golf course here in town used to have those Harley carts, and that the neighborhood kids would sneak in and hot wire them and drive them around at night.
Great pictures, thanks for sharing.
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