Bill found a couple more cool car photos among the slides he's collected, and shared them with us

 not many ski resorts have had '53 Corvettes brave the slippery roads

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This DEFINITELY ain't your Fathers Oldsmobile

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Awesome variety from WJ Jones... finder of incredible images on slides. Americana from the 40's through 60's

Ain't these cool? That airplane photo is so old, the phone number is 4 digits. The airstrip was bought by a pilot from Kentucky so he could have his own airport

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Nice Olds F85 caught my eye in a parking lot... Cragar SS rims make about everything look better... but the overall design, though simple, is good looking

 Looks a lot like a 66 Chevelle from the side

Take the lettering off the tail panel, and no one would know what this car is. 

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Things that caught my eye at the 2012 T-Mec rod run

 This is an odd looking Alfa, I don't think it's factory. I've never seen the factory make something this clumsy looking. Commentor Uncle Frank says it's a VW bug kit car, with VW front beam

 A Delmont 88, not going to see another one anyday soon

 Fiat Topolino dragster

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Hollywoods Golden age stars of the silver screen and their cars

 Clark Gable and his 32 Packard

 Laurel and Hardy in a 1930 Buick Series 30

 Al Jolson and his Mercedes

 Errol Flynn and his Auburn Speedster

 Ginger Rodgers and her 37 Dodge

 Jimmy Stewart and his Plymouth

 Joan Crawford and her 32 Lincoln Model K

 Bing Crosby and a 39 Oldsmobile at the movie studios

Cary Grant and his 1941 Buick Century

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Rene Ortega in Mexico has a marvelous gallery of Carrera Panamerica photos of cool cars

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ranachilanga/

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Fonzie's bike was up for auction by Bud Elkins, 1949 Triumph Trophy TR5... so was James Garner's Baja Olds 442

The motorcycle that helped make Arthur Fonzarelli an icon of cool was up for auction. (didn't sell)

The 1949 Triumph Trophy TR5 was featured on the beloved sitcom “Happy Days.” Even without the Fonz connection, the bike would have a famous pedigree since it was owned by stuntman, racer and Triumph dealer Bud Ekins — a guy even cooler than Fonzie himself. He’s best known for dyeing his hair blonde and performing the stunts that studios wouldn’t allow his friend Steve McQueen to do, including the fence jump at the end of The Great Escape and some of the driving in Bullit

When Happy Days needed an authentic bike for Fonzie, Ekins obliged by removing the bike’s front fender, spray-painting the gas tank silver and replacing the handlebars.

Henry Winkler, who played the Fonz, couldn’t ride a motorcycle. Winkler told Emmy TV Legends that he rammed the bike into a sound truck the first time he tried to ride it. From that day on, the crew pulled him and the motorcycle on a board.

The bike is in need of a lot of repairs. The speedometer is broken, it's rusted and hasn’t run since the 1970s, according to the New York Times. Despite the bike’s condition, it was expected to fetch between $60,000 and $80,000.

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2011/10/ayy-fonzies-bike-is-for-sale/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/celebritology/post/fonzies-happy-days-motorcycle-up-for-sale-photo/2011/10/11/gIQAWOiFcL_blog.html



also up for auction are James Garner's former Oldsmobile Racer (didn't sell) , Fast and the Furious '94 Toyota Supra(sold for $21,000), and Tom Cruise's futuristic Lexus (sold at $101,000) from the "Minority Report", though the winning bidder can't actually take it on the road. http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/car_tips&id=8429328

some photos from http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/WService=wslive_pub/pubweb/publicSite.r

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