SPEED RACER TRYPTIC, Clooney, Godzilla, Pinups & MOONEYES!

Welcome to AUTOMOTIVE POP CULTURE DAILY!! Hope you’re ready for this one… ’cause we’re starting off with a super cool SPEED RACER MASTERPRINT TRYPTIC! There were tons of cars in the original Speed Racer TV Show from ’67-’68 and all were cool… but the MACH 5, SHOOTING STAR & GRX were huuuuge stories. Should Fireball do others?? LEAVE A SUGGESTION IN THE COMMENTS!

DID YOU KNOW?? The Mach 5’s steering wheel had seven buttons with letters on them, each of which triggered a special mechanism. For example, the “A” button raised the car, the “D” button made it bulletproof, and the “G” button released a homing robot bird. The original Japanese title of the show was Mach GoGoGo, which was a pun on the car’s name, the hero’s name, and the Japanese sound for tires on a racetrack. Check out the list of cars HERE!

Also in today’s MACH GOGOGO-BLAST… A-Lister GEORGE CLOONEY was Batman, but here he’s with WHAT CAR? Fireball pops a squat with KUSTOMIZER GEORGE BARRIS back in the day, a snap from the first WHEELS & WAVES at the Channel Islands Maritime Museum, a Vintage Behind the Scenes of Gerry Anderson’s SUPERCAR 60’s Puppet Series (Yes, the models were huge!), Fireball’s GOJIRA SCION hit SEMA and many other shows… and now it hits the Dragstrip! Also, a Platinum PINUP for your Perusal and lastly… Snaps from the final MOONEYES 2024 SHOW! No longer will it be at Irwindale… but will find a NEW HOME! More snaps coming DAILY!

Today’s GARAGE EPISODES… Fireball snags this CUSTOM CHRYLER NEW YORKER at Moon and then DRAWS LIKE HE MEANS IT! WATCH!

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