At first listen, the music Josh Clason chose to go with his video depicting Viva Las Vegas 2011 doesn’t seem to fit – where’s the raucousness, where’s the hipsterbillyness, where’s the obligatory reference to Elvis? Then again, rat rods have become just about as much a self-parody as Las Vegas has, so it’s refreshing to […]
Bob Summers, left, and Bill Summers, right. Image courtesy Greg Sharp, Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum As recently as a few years ago, Bill Summers still harbored ambitions to go land-speed racing, a testament to his devotion to a sport that he and his younger brother Bob had conquered more than 40 years prior. Bill […]
If you have a child under the age of eight in your life, you will at least have heard of CARS, the Disney/Pixar computer-animated feature that anthropomorphized a variety of vehicles. What no one expected was the continuing success of the merchandise that surrounded the film: Five years on, and CARS has remained an evergreen […]