well never been in one of those chains (Live in Michigan) but DRAGON! *dives into the car*

Love that ride!

Nice drawing.

Yeah! And check out the size of that drinking straw!

tri-5, tri-5, tri-5, tri-5, tri-5

...I take it you've been there?

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2867595/

more importantly whats under the hood? hi po 283, 327,396,406 427 ?

You know, I really can't say. I'd like something with good gas mileage and a little bit more "Pep" if I have to step on the gas to merge on the Freeway. I think a 327 would be adequate. Oh, but that 427 is awful tempting. We had a 1967 Pontiac Safari
station wagon with that big a V-8 and the thing was like driving a truck.

I'm actually favorably impressed with the modern GM V-6es; my '93 Bonneville still can chirp the front tires off the line after 210,000 miles.

Hello Steamfox. I have to say, that is a nice looking car. I wouldn't mind driving or owning something like that. However, if I were to get a car... I have my eyes set on a 1969 or 1971 AMC Javelin with the 401 motor. Wonder if the car has a fold down set option if Muse would like to be in her taur form. Thanks for sharing the picture Roy. Take care

Oh, now you're talking! I've always had a "Soft Spot" in my head for "Javvies" and the old AMXs too. It was the closest thing American motors had to a true "Performance Car" and drove like a skateboard with a big V-8 in it.

Very nice!
Grabbit & Growl is a fast food place huh?
I think I have a place for that (or something like it) in part of me tall tale!
Can I get your permission to use it?

I really hold no commercial copyright on the name, and I wouldn't be surprised if someone else has thought it up already. Go ahead... Have fun.

Well, as I’ve already used Goldie’s rendering of your ‘Carol's Gulp N' Gallop’ on Earth when Neal and company was there, I’d figured your Grabbit & Growl could be a fast food franchise on Chakona. Coming up with names is a failure of mine, so finding something that works – and that might get a laugh out of the reader, is a treat for me. Thanks, and if you come up with any other naming jokes I can steal – I mean use, suggestions always be welcome (just not always used )

diet bucket o soda please kay thanks!

I really love your art on this site, I hope I will get a chance to hang out and chat other than just hi and bye next FC...

This is great stuff.

'57 Chevy, the year before the "owl's eyes" rear ends appeared.

Huh! That's the first time I've ever heard the tail lights referred to in that way, but you're right. They DO kinda look that way. Did they have a name for the old "Chevrons?"

I don't know of any official name. I wasn't even sure what name most people used. But the '58, '59 and '60 models all kinda looked like owl's eyes to me. The '58 was more of a dry run and still looked a lot like the '57, mind you.

Mmm... In-n-out best burger joint ever! Ever since they opened a place near my house.... Midwesterner's and those East Coast guys don't know what they are missing ^.^

Ahhh...! But they have White Castle, Deep Dish Pizza, and Genuine Philly Cheese Steak Samwiches.

impressive work with the car, but the character looks so great too! x3

It amazes me how well you draw cars. I should get you to draw my character with my 68 Fairlane.

That'll take a little research. I kinda like the big cars from the mid to late 1960s myself.

Well, I can takes lotsa pics of my car for reference.

(Squeals in delight like an Anime School Girl...) Sure. Bring 'em on.

"What do you mean, you have to go again!?"

(Gotta love the buckets o' soda)

Oh Gawd! The image of the Dragon jumping up and down doing a desperate "Potty Dance" just jumped up in my head.

Nice car

I'd never allow a bucket of soda in that car if I owned it hahahaha

I can't say I don't blame you. Even with the vinyl Interior package and full weatherproofing, it's very difficult to get soda stains out of the carpets.

I know. when my folks re-did their carpet you could still tell where my brother and I spilled stuff as kids.

Say, did they ever redesign the In-N-Out bumperstickers or can you still do this?

http://mono-cheese-factory.blogspot.....-out-urge.html

Yes... That can still be done.

Seeing that classic car, I'm reminded of the weekly gatherings of antique car buffs at eateries like the Fuddrucker's in Fort Lauderdale, FL (before it went out of business). Checking out vehicles like early Ford Mustangs and Plymouth Roadrunners gave me and my brother quite a thrill. Of course, based on your drawing, I don't know which would really grab the most attention: that car or its passengers!

I do so miss In-N-Out Burger. Not so much the t-shirts, but I could really go for a Double Double, animal style, with a strawberry shake. For that matter, I miss Hotdog-on-a-Stick and Muscle Beach Lemonade. I practically lived on all of that growing up, but don't get any of it out here in Chicago :p

I've been kicking around an idea in my head of creating a means to bring favorite foods back East to misplaced Californians. My sister lives in San Antonio Texas, and often yearns for an In-N-Out Burger. And there's many treats available only in the Midwest and East coast that I'd like to bring back piping hot and fresh with me. (Chicago Deep Dish Pizza done properly, for one.) The only flaws in my plans are in creating the perfect "Stasis" field to stop time and entropy around the food, and of course getting said items through Airport Security.

See, I've been attacking the problem from a different standpoint. If I could just manage to entice the people that make the food to come to Chicago, work up a decent means of getting them their company's supplies, provide them a place to do their work, and find someone to bankroll the process, I could finally have access to my favorite burger, shakes, corn dogs, and lemonade again :p

Ha, too cool S'sorta one o' the rituals of my group of friends to head through the in-n-out drive through every weekend, though I dare say we're not nearly as colorful a bunch as these folks.

Nowwww you're making me hungry...

Hay? Is that what they're calling salad bars these days?

You know, I would be very surprised if no one has called their salad bars that by this time.

It's got that awesome 50's vibe! :D

heh, well yah did tons better on that pic then I did, glad you enjoyed it though.
Although those characters are representations of characters I've seen in your comics and drawings.

Also it's Losiniecki, but that's close enough

I KNEW I had misspelled it the second I hit the "Post" button. I didn't have my NAFs with me at the Office. I will staple the correction to my forehead!

-Ka-CHUNK!-

heh, it's fine living with a name like Losiniecki one gets used to the mistakes

Now that's a really clever idea! I love the menu choices there.

Dominus tecum

Well, just like the California drive through I patterned the restaurant after, there's a little more on their menu than listed on their sign. I had to think there'd be "Herbivore" types who just didn't have time to drop in at the local Brass Pan Buffet and raid the Salad Bar.

Reminded me of the cafeteria in Animalympics. I think there was a bird who ordered a worm burger, for example.

Oh gosh yes! I remember that. I had to draw up a feline McDonald's once that served "Mouseburgers." The Lion-morph in the foreground who used to be human didn't look too plased with his meal.

Awesome image - and YAY! A dragon!

Mamma Dragon

Does this thing have... spikes on the bonnet? For additional damage dealt to anyone foolish enough to step in front of it?

Well, not really. The 1957 Chevrolet Bel Aire was designed at a time when American art and style was heavily influenced by WWII fighter planes and the new "Jet Age." Thus automobiles of the time were festooned with chrome florishes that suggested weapons poking out like torpedoes, missiles or perhaps jet engine intake cones. Of course I could tell you of a time when I was playing street football with some of my friends when I was but a Lad of Nine, and I ran full force into one of those spikes while chasing the ball. I was only brused in the incident, but it did make me wonder, even at that time why Autos had to be designed to be so "Dangerous," even while they were sitting still.

Exactly. Looking at that reference photo, I was wondering if, perhaps, these weren't telescopic and used to, ah, nudge the preceding car in a traffic jam.

(LOL.) Heh. No. Not really. Most of the ones I've seen were pretty well fixed to the bumper. I have noted some models of the car had the option of hard, black rubber tips at the front of the bumper cones, which I think was an option added later on. I do like the idea of a spring loaded "Piston" affair behind each of those bumper cones though. Who knows? With it's 3/64th" steel fenders and body work, plus some other gadgets, a "Tricked out" 1957 Chevrolet Bel Aire might just make a dandy "Spy Car."

And these.. hood spikes, for the lack of better term, certainly look like a great place to hide twin machine guns! I bet you could put quite sizable barrel behind them.. twin M60, perchance?

Now you've got me thinking, and that's dangerous. My childhood friend by the name of David had a 1957 Chevy Bel Aire in his family, and he too mused about the stylish bulges in the hood of the automobile as being perfect for locating a pair of small machine guns. Yes. Twin M-60s, stripped of all their flim-flammery would fit in there nicely, but I'd be concerned about maintaining the guns such as replacing the barrels or adding new Ammo. Of course for a "One Shot' situation, such as getting out of a "Jam" against the "Bad Guys," it might just work.

Wow, that sounds like a fighter plane.

Ooh, a Chevy Bel Air! I love old cars!

So do I. There's a certain elegance and style to the cars designed from the late 1920s through to the late 1960s that is unmatched by anything of today's standards. I believe that the somewhat sterile auto designs of today are due to letting computers influence the shape and functionality of a vehicle. Of course trends such as "Road Presence" make the cars and SUVs of today look just plain ugly.

My favourite cars are antique ones, especially the pre-WWI Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost! (Yes, pre-World War One.)

Now that's classy. I had only seen "The Silver Ghost" in model kit form, and I believe that dates to the late 1920s or early 1930s. Anyway, I'd like to check out the pre WW I Rolls automobiles as they were most likely hand built with horse drawn carrage age technology, which was adapted to the Automobile design and construction. The engine might be interesting to look at as well. Web search time.

As early as 1911 the press was calling Rolls-Royce "The Best Car in the World", and RR eventually adopted that phrase as an advertizing slogan. In my opinion, The Silver Ghost was the best Rolls-Royce ever made.

Looks like quite the outing!

Now I'm getting Nostalgic for those evenings after the con closes up for the night and my friends and I would go out for a meal, and see a little more of the Town.

You're lucky . . . my work load and fund limits make it difficult for me to go to cons . . . plus I never feel that comfortable in big cities in RL.