More cool stuff from 5window.tumblr.com

all from http://5window.tumblr.com but beware that it's changed a bit from being primarily race cars and hot rods, there are lots of nude women, lingerie, etc etc. Yup, that's awesome, but don't let your boss sneak up on you to see what you are surfing the web looking at

Mickey Thompson, mechanical genius, has anyone else ever tried to put the intake and exhaust on the same side of a big block head?

Wow. Found in Hot Rod Delux... if you aren't getting every episode, you're wasting time, and making a mistake

A quick look at the Wally Parks motorsports museum

I've got no idea what a mini dualie tractor is doing here.

the famous TV Tommy Ivo t bucket with the one of a kind Von Dutch signature, I don't believe he signed anything else this way with the feet

Billy Gibbons Mexican Blackbird , last year in the GNRS http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/01/mexican-blackbird-t-bird-that-finally.html

MIckey Thompson's 1969 Mustang he used to break 295 speed and endurance records

Mickey Thompson Dec 7th 1928 Mar 16th 1988

"he DID IT ALL. He ran dragstrips, made speed parts, built differing cars in all different types of motorsports, dragsters, funny cars, driving, owning, off roading, indoor racing stadium racing. He appears to have the gift of doing what ever he set his mind to do, and he also had the drive to go out and do it all." 85-percent Grenade Inspector

For more about Mickey, including some never before published photos from some guys who met and photographed Mickey when he was at a drag race
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=456675&page=2

the only 1962 Pontiac Catalina Bubbletop made for Mickey Thompson, by Pontiac Developmental

Photographed at the Pontiac Oakland national convention (thanks Dave!) is the only bubble top 1962 Catalina. Its also seen here: http://chrysler300country.com/pontiac_389_super_duty_2.htm

Just prior to the September 1961 NHRA Nationals at Indianapolis, Pontiac introduced a new 421 cubic inch engine rated at a ridiculously low 373 horsepower. The only people who could get them were the Mickey Thompson crew. I believe they only went into 1962 models because of the date they were introduced. Hayden Proffitt, driving Mickey Thompson's 1962 Catalina, beat everyone with a 12.55 / 110.20 run, unheard of in 1961.

....Thompson and the crew from Royal Pontiac in Royal Oak, Michigan, seemed to hit upon the same idea at the same time. According to Larry Davis's book, Quarter-Mile Muscle: Detroit goes to the Drags, both teams converged on the 1962 NHRA Winternationals with Tempest two-door coupes fitted with 421-cu.in. Super Duty V-8s.

Proffitt also drove a 421-powered Catalina in the Super Stock class during that event, but ran just 12.75 seconds with it. http://www.hemmings.com/mus/stories/2008/05/01/hmn_feature9.html

Classifieds, all sorts of amazing finds; Famous people's cars, and the Polynesian

Eddie Hill, top fuel driver

Fastest car of 1958, the Mickey Thompson - Voight streamliner

Bruce Crower's record holding Bonneville racer

Eric Rickman, photographer for Hot Rod magazine

Mickey Thompson Equipment company advertising

Yesterday I didn't even know Mickey had an equipment company... now I have ads to share with you. Life's funny like that.