Link of the Day

Thanks to my buddy Jeffro for shooting me this link of the World Record Skateboard Slalom run.

http://www.wimp.com/skateboardslalom/

Mind you it's a one-hundred cone run(!). I've slalomed many a time, but only for twenty or thirty cones at the most. This dude is bad as hell! Amazing.

Prancing Horse

The fabulous Prancing Horse of Modena.

R.R. Shifter #21

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R.R. Shifter #17

When I was a kid my MeMaw Alsup had these doorknobs all through her house. Se also had the first chrome Christmas tree I ever saw. She put nothing on it but blue shiny balls and had one of those spinning wheels for color.....

R.R. Shifter #16 Bloodshot.....

A bloodshot eye-ball cue ball.....with dice switches. Cool.

R.R. Shifter #15

Running with the ATF theme we have this automatic transmission rat-rod with a Coors Light tapper handle.

R.R. Shifter #14 Black Jack

You gotta' wonder about this one. I mean, seriously, that's gotta' be sweet tea, right? And, it's major cool that it sticks up way through the moon roof!

R.R. Shifter #13 Grenade

A red pine-apple in a Rat Rod whose interior sheet-metal was pretty much assembled out of old road signs. A pretty cool aluminum dash with a sweet swirl pattern.

Again, sometimes it's all about the steering wheel.....

R.R. Shifter #12 Grenade

Now class, we move on to pine-apples as your shifter of choice. they can, in fact be mounted outside the vehicle, in sprint-car style fashion, as seen here. Diggin' the buzz-saw blade mount. What about those pointy studded valve covers?

Lesson in Conductivity

This just in from the Trialsrooster , who obviously had a bit of excitement on the job yesterday.....

"First off this really happened yesterday, I couldn't make this shit up. The shop I work in is the front most building of three. Yesterday I was back in my little corner of the world when the lights blinked a couple times. Thinking it was just a plug loose we checked that when the lights went out through the whole shop. At that point I started to walk to the front when I saw one of the guys running to the back building with 2 fire extinguishers. I'm kinda' thinking at this point WTF! So I grab an extinguisher too, and head out the door. As soon as I get outside I hear the unmistakable sound of very high voltage in a dead short.

In the breaker box of the rear building was a very bright arc along with a little bit of fire. By the way, don't shoot a fire extinguisher into a shorted breaker box, it makes the electrons very angry. I already knew this, but they got fire to shoot all the way across the room before they figured that out. It seems the asshole had a stripped screw in the breaker box and decided to drill it out. What he succeeded in doing was drilling into the electrical feed from the pole and grounding it out, he lived but suffered some burns. The fire department and electric company were not real happy.

The good part is I got to go home early."

R.R. Shifter #11

Since we're on some skull shifters.....here's one with a pretty serious under-bite.

R.R. Shifter #10

Sorry for the delay, it was an interesting and long week, ask me about it sometime.

Meanwhile, back to our originally scheduled programming.

Here we have this cool Rat Rod shifter with a flamed skull and the damnedest barbed-wire styled shift shaft I've ever seen.....you wouldn't want to slip and miss a shift on this one!