The man in the bubble, Darryl Starbird (pict via: )

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In 1949 Don Haynes, a 39 year old truck driver, made a bet that he would spend the next 14 months traveling to each of the 48 states while welded inside his car. The car came equipped with a chemical toilet and phone (and, someone suggested, removable floorboards so he could occasionally sneak out). Haynes’ wife was pregnant at the time so when she delivered Haynes had the car lifted on a crane so he could check in on his wife and baby in their second floor hospital room. Unfortunately, Haynes gave up just three weeks short of completing his journey when he lost track of his advance publicity man. Later, he would embark on quest to collect pajamas from the governor of each state though he failed to complete this task as well, stopping after collecting 41. Haynes would return to the car throughout the 50s and 60s- in the late 50s he and wife his shut themselves in and traveled the country billing themselves as “The Nomads”- but what became of the “Seaman of the Sealed Car” after that is a mystery.

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On the radioactive streets of post-war Hiroshima, the mutant Kaba car—hippopotamus sound car of Kabaya Confections (machine translation) trolls for children starved for sweetness in this photo taken in December 1946. Via: 3yen

This issue by Dean & Son dates to circa 1950, and shows a couple of pre-war style Grand Prix cars duelling on track. Despite the cover illustration, there are no motoring tales within this book's covers. Via: Old Classic Car

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Cheeky Road Rover toy cars via: Jake Fowler's photostream

Andrew Bush

Person driving somewhere in the last decade of the previous millennium (whereabouts unknown)
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To Boldy Go: “Massachusetts Slim” takes a break. Via: The Drex Files

Burning the media-Ant Farm.

Ant Farm was a group of architects who produced experimental works on the "fringe of architecture" during the period 1968-1978. They documented their work with video, and were influential early video and performance artists. The most well known work to come from the group was the famed Caddilac Ranch, but his remains our favorite.

Ant Farm's "Phantom dream car" in its brief glory, but at the end of the day what did it all mean?...

" A Cadillac, A cigar and a ticket to the bullfights" Via: The La Carrera Panamerica

By David Church

"Death on Ridge Road" by Grant Wood