wow.... very well detailed!!! i like it a lot ^^

Do that car have a face?

Sweet! I love the racing style nose on a street rod!

A face? What? I guess you mean is it a particular model. Not really. It's a 32 Ford roadster style body, custom made from fibreglass. The engine is a 480 cui mill from a Dodge Viper, just about the biggest engine you can get for the road. The wheels are "moon" -- you never see those anymore, but I've always greatly admired them.

One of the things I wanted to do was avoid the "Boydster" look, that streamlines everything to the point of blandness. Also, no lo-profile tires or oversized hubs for me. I like tires that look like they work.

Very cool. Almost never see furry artists actually able to draw cars and organic creatures at the same. Its usually either/or. Me, I can draw technology fairly well but actually drawing people (furs, etc) I suckith mightily. On the other hand I can do sculptures and 3D pretty well.

One thing about drawing cars that is very much like drawing people. In drawing people, if you don't get the eyes right it messes up the entire picture and with cars, if the tires aren't right, it throws everything off. Using the firewall as a reference and it matches up with the rest of the car as well, the tires are all leaning to the left. When I draw cars, I usually start with the tires, get them right and work from there.

From the look of the grill it almost looks more like something the Dodge Brothers would have built which goes well with the Viper engine.

Yes, I am old school when it comes to tires and wheels. I want to be able to maintain stability in a turn and not die in a fiery crash. Besides I've never really liked the chromed covered wagon wheel look at all.

Those are actually called "Baby Moons" as they cover the center lug nut cluster and usually have a chrome trim ring, "Moon" hubcaps actually cover the entire wheel opening. Hot rodders love baby moons 'cuz they are low mass, cheap and usually stay on the wheel where regular hubcaps would sling off plus they really look good.

Oh, in this situation you keep both cars, use the wagon for a daily driver and the hot rod for Sunday drives. That is what most people do that have exotic hot rods anyway.

Yes, baby moons. It's been a long time since I learned all that stuff in Hot Rod Cartoons (like the 60's man). I've always suspected that the current fashion rods is fundamentally different from the old esthetic, and flawed. These days it seems entirely driven by looks. So heavy rocker & bumper panes added that really don't do much for the slip-stream. Wheels & tires that look like Hot Wheels but intuitively seem non-functional. Hydrolyic equipment to amuse the clowns. And several hundred pounds of multi-media crap. The old school rod was long in looks too, but it was also made for speed.

You'll probably like the Hirondel I'll be posting at a later date. It's supposedly The Saint's favourite British made sports car. A client had me design a furry parody, complete with a 90's look Hirondel "Esprit". I redid the piece later without the Saint caricatures, as a hovercar.

Part of the problem I think is the fact cars can't really be fast any more. You can go to jail and have your car confiscated for doing things that weren't even illegal back in the day yo. As bad as traffic usually is in most places in the country you are rarely going to find the ol' Tarus wagon isn't plenty fast enough. With gas at $3 plus a gallon a vehicle that gets 8 mpg highway and gets you a ticket every time you drive it makes little sense. Instead, the young gear heads are buying "Tuners" such as Toyotas and Nissans for cheap and adding speed equipment and bling. You get a quick car that still gets 30 mpg. The "bling 'tards" are the ones with 24 inch chrome spinners on some ragged out Caprice with a Krylon paintjob and a Wal Mart woofer rattling the rust off and buzzing like a chainsaw.

For me, fast is a ideal I dont expect to realize. I may own a Lamborghini, but wouldn't dream of driving it at 190 mph. Geez -- at that speed a cricket hitting the paint job would chip it! Why bother with speed then? I just enjoy the blend of form and function. But tuners are arbitrary form with too little function as far as I'm concerned. I'll just keep my Taurus stock, thanks, and use the $30,000 saved on bling for something useful.

The stupidest thing I ever saw was a Hummer with lowered panels, paint thin tires, and chrome chandelier wheels. It might as well have been a mobile garden shed.

I never knew she was interested in this stuff.......

Yep. The bigger and more powerful, the more Tangel likes 'em. She has rather a stable too. Her first cqr was a '57 corvette. She had a '68 "Shark" Corvette for a while, but it wasn't in the best condition, and she traded it in to help pay for her next car, a vintage '64 Shelby Cobra 427 that she could really race. After that Saara (and I) gave her a Ferrari F60, partly as a joke, since it dwarfed her. She loved it. It was a little too pretty for racing though, so she later acquired (from her own savings) an older Lamborghini Diabloe R/T, modifed for the track. At the moment she's eyeing a Mercedes-McLaren SLR for the road. But at a half million dollars, she may have to sell quite a few more muffins and pasta dishes from her restaurant before she can afford it.

I was refering to saara.....

the bionix may not be fast.....but it's perfect for mowing down enemies.....and blowing up cars that cut me off

Oh... well... Saara is more into flying things than things on four wheels. One of Saara's interests would be the history of flight, and comparing it with the histories on different planets. Some planets may not have ever made gas filled balloons, for example, while others may have not gone from propellors to jets for a hundred years.

The practical side of my would be thinking I was in need of more seats, briefly mind.

That's what the chains in the trunk are for.

Seriously, in the old days coupés like this usually had a "rumble seat." The trunk opened the other way, forming a back to the seat, and inside it had cushions. Of course, if it was raining and the front seats had the top up, it was hard luck for the mother-in-law in the back. But most husbands were willing to put up with that.