Smokin' Shutdown #23

The latest Volume of Smokin' Shutdown is out now!

 Get it here

- Ford Model A Racer
- Butchers 50 Kustom Pickup
- Summer Special 2010 Part 1
- Hot Rod Decadence #6
- Rumblers CC BBQ
- Race 61
- Hangar Rockin 2010
- Jay Jay's Ford Pickup
- 27 Model T
- 1941 Chevy Kustom
- Rust n Dust Jalopy 2010
- Frau Pepper Pinup
- 1950 Chevy Pickup

Rockabilly Bombardment 24 & 25 September 2010

Are you ready for W.A.R. #4

Stay tuned for a big review in september!

Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943

These images, by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America’s rural and small town populations. The photographs are the property of the Library of Congress and were included in a 2006 exhibit Bound for Glory: America in Color.

Link: America in Color from 1939-1943

Movie research #1

The premise involves two street racers (played by Taylor and Wilson) who live on the road in their 1955 Chevy 150 (One-Fifty) and drift from town to town, making their only income challenging local residents to races. The movie follows them driving east on Route 66 from Needles, California. They pick up a hitchhiker in Flagstaff, Arizona (played by Bird). In New Mexico, they encounter another streeet racer (played by Oates, driving a 1970 GTO Judge) and challenge him to a race. Oates suggests a cross-country race to Washington, D.C. and Taylor counters with the offer it be for "for pinks," or legal ownership of the loser's car. Characters are never identified by name in the movie; instead they are named "The Driver," "The Mechanic," "GTO," and "The Girl". The movie follows the group east through small towns in California, Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Tennessee. No character makes it to Washington D.C. within the scope of the film.

After sleeping with both the Driver and the Mechanic during the winding course of the journey, The Girl disappoints both the Driver and the Mechanic when she abruptly leaves with the GTO while they are competing at a local racetrack in Memphis. The Driver pursues them intently, finding them at a diner where the Girl has just rejected the GTO's idea to visit Chicago. The Driver proposes going to Columbus, Ohio to pick up some parts, but the Girl immediately rejects him. She hops on the back of a long-haired stranger's motorcycle, dropping her bag in the parking lot. The three men abruptly depart from the diner in their respective cars. The driver of the GTO, who has told a different story about himself to each of the many hitchhikers he picked up (including a gay hitchhiker played by Harry Dean Stanton), stops for two soldiers on leave. He tells his passengers that he has won the car while driving a home-built '55 Chevy, emphasizing the circular theme of the film. The film ends during a drag race at an airstrip in East Tennessee. As the Driver speeds down the runway, first the sound drops out, then the film seems to slow until the actual frames of the film seem to catch in the projectors gate, burning the film itself.


Directed: Monte Hellman

Produced: Michael Laughlin

Written: Rudolph Wurlitzer

Will Corry (also story)

Starring: James Taylor, Warren Oates, Laurie Bird & Dennis Wilson

Music: Billy James

Cinematography: Jack Deerson

Editing: Monte Hellman

Distributed: Universal Pictures

Release date(s) July 7, 1971

Running time: 102 minutes

Country: United States

Language: English

Budget US$: 850 000

Wiki

Simon's Roadster @ Hangar Rockin 2010

Simon's from the Road Devils Europe CC handmade Roadster! (sorry for the quality!)

European Skateboard Championships 2010

Etnies is one of the leading action sports brands since 1986 and organizers of worldwide, international skateboard events. Carhartt has actively been supporting the skateboard scene throughout Europe for more than a decade. This particular collaboration has made it possible to present the largest Skateboard Championships in the 3-country boarder-corner of Basel for the ninth time.

Hunter S. Thompson 1937-2005

(Born July 18, 1937, Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.—died February 20, 2005, Woody Creek, Colorado) American journalist and author, who created the genre known as gonzo journalism, a highly personal style of reporting that made Thompson a counterculture icon.



Thompson, who had a number of run-ins with the law as a young man, joined the U.S. Air Force in 1956. He served as a sports editor for a base newspaper and continued his journalism career after being discharged in 1957. In 1965 he infiltrated the Hell's Angels motorcycle gang, an experience he recounted in Hell's Angels (1967). The book led to writing assignments for Esquire, Harper's, Rolling Stone, and other magazines. In addition to his irreverent political and cultural criticism, Thompson also began to attract attention for his larger-than-life persona, which was highlighted by drug- and alcohol-fueled adventures and a distaste for authority.

In 1970 Thompson introduced his subjective style of reporting with the article “The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved,” in which he was a central part of the story. A 1971 assignment for Sports Illustrated to cover a motorcycle race in Nevada resulted in perhaps his best-known work, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (1972; film, 1998), which became a contemporary classic and established the genre of gonzo journalism. First serialized in Rolling Stone, it documents the drug-addled road trip taken by Thompson (as his alter ego Raoul Duke) and his lawyer (Dr. Gonzo) while also discussing the end of the 1960s counterculture. The book featured frenetic artwork by Ralph Steadman, who illustrated many of Thompson's works. In Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 (1973), Thompson chronicled the 1972 presidential campaigns of George McGovern and Richard Nixon. Later works include The Great Shark Hunt (1979), Better Than Sex (1994), and Kingdom of Fear (2003). Thompson died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

HOT ROD & ART SHOW 2010

Welcome to our new Kustom Gonzo Blog!

First of all the announcement for this years W.A.R 2010. The Hot Rod and Art Show, hostet by the Road Devils Europe CC, Smokin Shutdown and Edwin Europe!

What sould we say about this event ?! Its getting bigger and better every year. This years special guest from cali are Steve Caballero (ProSkater, Artist and Rodder) and Lil Daddy Roth. Lil Daddy has become a part of the W.A.R family the last couple years. The musiclineup is just great on friday with hardcore/punk bands and on saturday its a little more rock n' roll. Don't miss the Burleque Show and all the other artist's and merchandizer's. We are pretty excidet and looking forward to this show! See you there...