Count Von Count's car... deserves a place among the other tv show cars!

http://thenewswheel.com/sesame-street-vehicle-spotlight-the-incalculable-coolness-of-the-countmobile/follow-that-bird-sesame-street-the-counts-countmobile-car/

They bought a Delorean without telling their daughter then prank her and record the video of her finding out!

http://thenewswheel.com/true-undisputed-father-of-the-year-surprises-young-daughter-with-a-delorean-video/

The goofballs Bob Hope and Bing Crosby even kept up their fake, but funny, competition with soapbox derby cars for kids

1948 "Paleface Special" and "Emperor Waltz" with Wally Parks between the racers, they are both named for movies that Hope and Crosby released in the theaters that year.

If it had wheels, Wally Parks was interested in it, and these downhill racers were supported by the Hot Rod Magazine and NHRA in early Soapbox Derby programs sponsored by Chevrolet.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/stiffspeed/

Sidenote, celebrities used to go to the National Soapbox Derby, and a list of them is at http://www.soapboxderby.org/aasbd-race-program/history/celebrities.aspx but after the 80s, the star power isn't there at all. I just don't even recognize the names. But back in the 40s and 50s some major celebs showed up, Ron Reagan, Jimmy Stewart, Eddie Rickenbacker, Dizzy Dean, jack Dempsey, General Doolittle, Roy Rodgers, Abbott and Costello, Art Carney, Glenn Ford, the cast of Bonanza, Fess Parker, astronauts Lovell, Ward, and Gordon, Peter Fonda, Evel Knievel, and many others.

14-year old Franco Patria driving a scale model of a Porsche Cisitalia car

At a retail cost of $1700, the car can reach speeds up to 38 miles per hour on its 3.5 horsepower engine.

http://www.gettyimages.ae/detail/news-photo/portrait-of-14-year-old-franco-patria-driving-a-scale-model-news-photo/

1956 kid with his Bugatti

https://primotipo.com/2016/02/28/pascals-bugatti/  photos of Jerry Cooke

lucky kids, they got to hit up Barris for yearbook ads!

Tell me that isn't the most obscure advertising thing you've ever heard of Barris doing! He didn't miss ANY opportunity to advertise.

I know I looked through my entire year book once, the day I got it. After that, every now and then I looked up someones last name, or what class they were in... but everyone forgot the goldmine of awesome cars in the photo advertising in the back of the high school year books. Shelby Cobras, GT 350s, GT 500s, 427 Corvettes, dragsters, Super Bees, Road Runners, Super Birds, Chevelles, Mustangs, Camaros, AMXs, and odd stuff like the rare speed shop (Carroll Shelby Auto Center, Goodies - which had a photo with Linda Vaughn put into that yearbook!), legendary dealerships (Galpin, Berger, Dana etc) or custom car companies like Barris.

I copied the best of them, and you can save yourself some time by clicking on http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/year%20book%20ads  instead of looking through 5 years of posts on that site... there are lots of uninteresting cars on that site too.

http://annualmobiles.blogspot.com/2016/07/george-barris-custom-cars.html

ads from the back of the yearbooks

http://annualmobiles.blogspot.com/

Landy's Dart, and the Little ol Lady from Pasadena in a commercial for Whamo Wheelie Bars for kids bikes

Lego 1964 Mustang, a 3 part video from build to over view of the finished car

inspired by http://www.thedrive.com/news/6362/this-timelapse-lego-build-of-a-life-size-vintage-ford-mustang-is-mesmerizing

and now, a public service message that has nothing to do with cars. That's why it's a PSA

I am so impressed by the production and story, and the plot twist, I gotta share it. I hope you watch it and appreciate why I shared it with you, maybe you'll share it, maybe with your high school or middle school kids.

Since I live in San Diego, site of 3 notorious schools,
 Cleveland Elementary, 1979,
Santana HS, 2001
and Granite Hills HS 2001, just 3 weeks later.

Only sharing because I care and wish you and your family the best lives possible, which means looking out for each other, and keeping an eye out for trouble we can prevent

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-timeline-san-diegos-school-shootings-2012dec14-story.html

baby seats and other things were very much a matter of just hanging them up by hooking over a seat or other fixed object.

https://www.facebook.com/All-Things-Vintage-1548902362053001/