It’s Wednesday. I have a 4-foot Christmas tree that I set up every year for my ever-growing collection of car ornaments. I always post a photo of the tree and last year one of my readers pointed out that it didn’t have a tree topper. In the many years that I’ve been doing this, it had never occurred to me to get a car themed tree topper for it. So I thought, why not?
After searching the internet for a suitable topper, I came up with basically nothing. The only one that came close was the VW Bus topper pictured on the right. It was printed on a 3D printer and that got me thinking. What if instead of the VW Bus it had a Chevy symbol? Or even the “Stingray” script? I know there’s plenty of places online that will do the 3D printing, but I’m guessing the source file has to be created in some type of 3d modeling software. If any of you do that sort of thing and you’re up for it, drop me an email.
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Reactor
It’s Thursday. I was listening to a podcast interview with auto designer Chip Foose the other day. They were discussing Chip’s childhood and how his father was his biggest influence growing up. Chip mentioned that his father was involved in building a groundbreaking 1960s custom car known as The Reactor. Chip even remembered riding in at as a child. In addition to touring the US in custom car shows, it was used in television shows like Bewitched, Star Trek, and Batman. I had never seen or heard of The Reactor before, so I looked it up and found the video featured above. Check it out if yer interested!
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