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Orange Hot-rod, Queen Street Niagara Falls cruise night

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FROM THE B-MOVIE BADLANDS...

...images from the lost continent of cult films, b-movies and celluloid dreamscapes

Teenage Rampage! Teenagers in 50s horror movies.

If you didn't have enough problems with puberty, escorting Mary-Lou to the drive-in and the Squares taking the T-Bird away, you have to deal with vampires, mutants and pubic hair growing all over your body. Bad Vibes Daddio.

I Was A Teenager Frankenstein (1957) I Was A Teenage Werewolf (1957) The Blob (1958) Blood Of Dracula (1957) Earth vs The Spider (1958) Frankensteins Daughter (1958) The Giant Gilla Monster (1958) Teenagers From Outer Space (1959)

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The 10 Craziest Car Mods Around the World

Ask a car modder why they endlessly tweak their cars, and they’ll usually talk about making a personal statement with their ride. Yet ultimately mods tend to be shaped by the surrounding culture and the region's history—and if you travel overseas you’ll find the trends that range from the bizarre to the whimsical. Here are 10 of the most fascinating car mods you’ll find around the globe.

Jeepneys (Philippines)

Buses stateside rarely elicit any excitement, save for the random crazy person yelling obscenities and urinating in the back seat. In the Philippines the commuter buses can be a colorful, if not a rough, experience. Built out of the surplus of Jeeps that the United States sold to Filipinos after World War II, Jeepneys stretch the passenger compartment to accommodate about a dozen passengers, with an exit in the back for easy entry. There are no bus stops, and riders can get off or get by signaling to the bus driver, which can create a jam at crowded intersections.

Source: Yahoo Autos

Butchered Eastern-Bloc Cars (Eastern Europe)

With the steering response of an anvil and rust-prone bodywork that'd make a Chevy Vega blush, it's hard to make a Soviet-era car worse. That might be why resourceful modders swap out key components for bits that aren't even from a car. There's this Skoda 100 in the Czech Republic with logs for wheels, or a Lada-turned carriage--with literal horse power.

Source: Yahoo Autos

Dekotora (Japan)

Although Swedes have a penchant for customizing Scania trucks, that doesn’t come close to Japan’s outlandish Dekotora modding, short for “decoration truck.” A fad that took off in the 1970s, a Dekotora truck is characterized by jutting stainless steel parts, aero bits resembling an old cow catcher, and enough lighting to rival Time Square. Parts are either scavenged from junked trucks or purchased new, and in spite of the kitsch factor, it’s a pricey hobby--a custom bumper costs around $500, and a decked out rig can easily exceed over $20,000 in mods. Surprisingly, some of these trucks are actually still used for work, although the neon-lit spectacle is getting rarer by the day.

Source: Yahoo Autos

DIY '50s American Classics (Cuba)

Due to the U.S. embargo on Cuba in 1959, people there scrapped together whatever they could to keep their vintage American Studebakers, Desotos and Chevys cruising the streets of Havana. Since replacement parts have been non-existent, you’ll find ingenious mods of every kind, from Trabant engine swaps, to hand-hammered bumpers made from scrap metal, and even exhaust piping rigged out of soda cans. Although the country eased trade restrictions last year, new cars are prohibitively expensive for country that has an average per capita monthly salary of $22--so those old, cobbled-together American cruisers will continue to be a sub-culture icon for the foreseeable future.

Source: Yahoo Autos

Mod Scooters (England)

Custom café racers and their lumbersexual hipster riders are a transcontinental phenomenon, but mod scooters are unique to the U.K. Having its roots in the mod revival movement, the niche is characterized by Lambretta TV200s with a deluge of lights that make them look like Sentinels from The Matrix. Other distinctives include a bunch of rearview mirrors, and color motifs based on the Union Jack flag.

Source: Yahoo Autos

Raggare (Sweden)

Trucker caps, Confederate flags and beat-up ‘50s American V-8s with roof racks—it’s a beer-swilling scene you’d expect to find in the Deep South, but is instead in Västerås, the heart of Sweden. Coined from “ragga," which means “to pick up (girls),” Raggare gets its influence from the greaser culture in the ‘50s, and is a movement that rebels against the mainstream with beat-up Cadillacs and primer-exposed Pontiac Bonnevilles.

Source: Yahoo Autos

Jingle Truck (Pakistan)

Sounding like a 5-ton Santa’s sleigh with the slew of bells attached to the front bumper, Pakistan’s Jingle trucks are renowned for the elaborate hand-painted decorations, and vintage bodies (an old colonial-era Bedford is the style of choice). Truckers, who ferry anything from firewood to military supplies, spend up to a third of their yearly salary to customize their rig inside and out. Considering they make around $5,000 a year, that’s quite a commitment.

Source: Yahoo Autos

Custom Tourist Buses (Thailand)

While three-wheeled tuk-tuks immediately come to mind with Thailand, the Southeast Asian country is also known for its elaborately painted tourist buses. While not as outlandish as Japanese Dekotora buses, they stand out for airbrushed art that mix anime with psychedelic color palettes.

Source: Yahoo Autos

Itasha (Japan)

A term that literally reads as “pain car” in Japanese, Itasha is a consciously ironic, self-deprecating act of taking a luxury car (though it’s caught on with regular passenger cars) and hamming it up with images of anime girls. The designs themselves are usually decals applied to the car, especially on the hood. High-end European cars like a Ferrari or Lamborghini are the preferred medium to mutilate, but thankfully the Otaku-inspired makeovers are easily reversible.

Source: Yahoo Autos

Donks (United States)

Wide wheels and tires stretched to an inch of its life had its origins in Europe with VW hatches and old BMWs with Boser hoods, but donk cars are a distinctly homegrown phenomenon. There are two subsets—one uses older American cars like a ‘70s Oldsmobile Cutlass and slaps commercial brands on the door to look like a decades-old marketing campaign gone bad. The other blings out relatiely newer luxury cars, like a Lexus SC coupe or a Buick Regal. Both try to wedge the largest diameter chrome wheels into the wheel wells, and even trim the bumper and lift the car to give better clearance.

Source: Yahoo Autos

Art Cars (Worldwide)

We said 10 craziest, but there's another general category of "art cars" that bear mentioning here. Whether it's a wood-covered Beetle, an etched Honda, or the Finnjet, a creation of Finnish artist Arrti Rahko from two Mercedes and pieces of dozens of other vehicles, the most memorable art cars always defy classification.

Source: Yahoo Autos

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Youth on the Loose! Now you can own a copy of this great movie poster on a Hot-Rod Girl note card. Available at an extremely reasonable price in my Etsy shop.  Thanks for looking!

https://www.etsy.com/listing/111398083/hot-rod-girl-blank-card-vintage-movie

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Kell Bee, Next of Skin (Pickering, Ontario)