Street Fury

Street Fury Gold takes you to straight to Southern California - the hotbed of import car racing and modification. Hang with the racing champions and sneak a peek at the latest and greatest underground import modification shops! Get up close and personal with top import model Aiko Tanaka, and red-hot series host, Candi Kita. Experience the gear-busting, tire-screeching, side-swiping underground street races and - even better - the killer afterparties!

Street Fury Red... back to Southern California -the playground for street racers and Import models! The second volume of Street Fury further infiltrates the risky scene. - Cars, Clubs & Street racing - Team Hybrid, Big Willis Robinson - Girls & Music - wild bikini contests, Dub Magazine, Asia, this edition's cover girl.

Street Fury Ice. Street Fury's bling-bling edition. Big C just can't get enough of hitting the Streets bringing you the scene as it happens. Travel from Nevada to New York looking for the coolest cars in today's hottest scene. You expect the fastest cars, mesmerizing models, and import shows, but Big C hooked up with some of the entertainment industry's coolest folks to show you how they do it big.

Street Fury Jade. From L.A.'s Chinatown to the Valley, The OC and even a stop 'Where no other import DVD has dared to go'... The Hood. Big C puts you in the driver's seat and stays bringin' you the hottest the import scene has to offer.

Click to read more about the Street Fury DVD series.

To purchase any of the above titles click on the TOKYOPOP store locator.

[Copyright ©2001 Mixx Entertainment, Inc. - ©1997-2004 TOKYOPOP Inc.]

Why buy the cow?

[Photo: change reality]

When you can get the milk for free?


[Photo: The Cow Goddess]

Instead, drive a funky cow car.


[Photo: Cow-de-lac]

Or cruise in a fancy Cowdelac.


[Photo: CowCarRacing]

Racing cow cars has its rewards.


[Photo: The Cow Car]

But I prefer this little cownvertible. It's sporty, stylish and very Guernsey.


[Buy the surfer cow at FunToCollect.com]

Cowabunga! Dude, this surfer cow version of an old 1948 Ford Woodie is sweet.
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Last word about cows and cars:

A man’s car stalled on a country road.  When he got out to fix it, a cow came along and stopped beside him.  “Your trouble is probably in the carburetor,” said the cow.

Startled, the man jumped back and ran down the road until he met the farmer.  He told the farmer his story.

“Was it a large red cow with a brown spot over the right eye?” asked the farmer.

“Yes!”

“Oh, I wouldn’t listen to Bessie,” said the Farmer.  “She doesn’t know anything about cars.”

-- from Rick@Leaders.net

La femme rebelle

Question: "Contre ce qu'êtes vous se rebellant?"

Réponse: "Ce qui vous avez?"

The perfect rebel... a French woman with attitude.

[Photos: SVGirls]

MondrianMobile

Emily Duffy's MondrianMobile is represented by the Art Car Agency.

California artist Emily Duffy, famous for her BraBall, has also created the MondrianMobile, a vehicle for bringing art to the world outside of museums and galleries.


Artist Emily Duffy and her MondrianMobile. [Photo: Ken Duffy.]

See more images and read about Emily Duffy's "cartistic" endeavors at her Art Cars web site.

[All images, artworks, and Website ©2003 Emily Duffy]

Hailing Taxi

Gisele Bündchen from the rear.

Giselle Bündchen plays the gorgeous leader of a gang of luscious female bank robbers. She's pursued by an overeager undercover detective (Jimmy Fallon) in a souped-up taxi driven by New York's fastest cabbie (Queen Latifah).


Giselle Bündchen from the front.

Taxi is the Brazilian supermodel's movie debut. It's also a remake of the Luc Besson produced French original.


Giselle Bündchen from afar.

The non-stop, all-action, all-comedy Taxi opens tomorrow October 6th.

Visit the Taxi web site to view the trailer.

[Photo credit Kerry Hayes/SMPSP, © 20th Century Fox.]

Fear of Driving

A book about a high-class woman trying to overcome her fear of driving? Doesn't sound like a theme anyone would want to warm up to, but The God of Driving has received a number of favorable reviews - which could be a result of the interplay between a handsome, swarthy driving instructor and a trendy socialite with a phobia. Sounds like the makings of a motorized Swept Away - or should it be called Driven Away?

As a top correspondent for Vanity Fair magazine, Amy Fine Collins leads a glamorous life, a charmed whirlwind of gala parties, couture clothing, and five-star travel. In Manhattan, where she is whisked around in taxis and limousines, she has been able to disregard her long-standing fear of driving, a legacy handed down from her accident-plagued family. But when the brilliant and determined Amy finally decides to confront her driving phobia, she does not foresee how far from her elegant turf this resolution will take her.

A mysterious, good-looking Turk named Attila is dispatched to her doorstep in a dual-brake Acura, and in him Amy discovers not only a superhumanly skilled instructor but also a wise, patient, and capable man who, inexplicably and irresistibly, over the course of their yearlong lessons, begins to transform and transport her.

Read the synopsis and other great reviews (plus one bad one) at Amazon.com.

[Jacket cover photo: Copyright © 2004 by Simon & Schuster, Inc.]

Full Service Museum

Be careful visiting the Museo Fisogni - Museum of Gas Stations, you'll end up spending a whole day puttering around the amazing collection of signs, ads, brochures, gasoline cans, globes, promotional toys, gas pumps and other objects from our hydrocarbon-fueled past.



Its curator, Guido Fisogni, is not just a collector, but a scholar of industrial art and design, who has restored and catalogued the boundless ephemera the gasoline age, because they are...

"... pleasing esthetic appendages to the industrial arts... important witnesses to the rapidity of change. Industrial production, by its nature, quickly consumes its own products in order to make way for newer, more beautiful, more efficient ones."

His Milan, Italy-based museum is a tribute to the beauties of the "inefficient past."



After over 30 years, Fisogni is looking to sell the entire collection for exhibition. For information please call +39.029101398 or write to Museo Fisogni

[Images and quoted texts: © 1996 - 2004 Fisogni]

[Thanks to Eye of the Goof for the link.]