Description: Horlicks University is a fictional Ivy League college was featured in 'The Crate' segment of Creepshow, and then again in 'The Raft' segment of Creepshow 2 where the four students were from Horlicks. The University is also referenced in several Stephen King novels and short stories and has made appearances in non-King works as well, usually as fun little Easter eggs left for horror fans. This design is based on the iconic shirt work by the girls in 'The Raft' in Creepshow.
Description: Horlicks University is a fictional Ivy League college was featured in ‘The Crate’ segment of Creepshow, and then again in ‘The Raft’ segment of Creepshow 2 where the four students were from Horlicks. The University is also referenced in several Stephen King novels and short stories and has made appearances in non-King works as well, usually as fun little Easter eggs left for horror fans. This design is an alternative take on the design that has been referenced so many times.
Description: Every generation of Bowtie trucks has its fans, but the second gen C/K crowd seems especially strong, and these are the kind of people Action Line Performance counts among their customers. Sure, anybody shop could lay down a custom paint job and any decent shop could build a race winning engine, but you won't find many that do both while also manufacturing their own second gen C/K parts. Whether you're doing a frame off restoration with a little more punch under the hood or wanted a bagged shorty with road racing inspired handling and a twin turbo small block to pull it down the track, a visit to Action Line Performance in Riverside won't disappoint.
Description: In the late 1970s, disco was the most popular music genre in America, however, disco sparked a major backlash from rock music fans as popular culture cultivated a widespread perception that disco was taking over. This lead to a widespread 'disco sucks' movement that could be found just about everywhere, from messages on t-shirts to an all out riot in Chicago. During the mid-seventies, this fuzzy little monster started flipping everyone off, and nobody really knows why. He managed to stick around well into the ’80s, but instead of just standing around and flipping the bird, he suddenly started being portrayed as doing more than just flipping people off, like holding signs saying "I'd rather eat shit than disco."
Description: RanXerox is a Frankensteinish antihero monster built from old photocopier parts who was a birthday present for Lubna from some of her friends. On the same day she received him, some thugs were harassing her and destroyed Ranx. When the friends who built Ranx found out, they then repaired him, and cranked his aggressiveness levels up to the maximum, which explains why he is always so brutal and destructive, especially when it comes to protecting Lubna. Together, they are a bizarre pairing, giving us a dark mirror that reflects the base part of ourselves that would take what it wants with no compromise and no apologies.
Description: The naming of Deno’s 6 & 85 truck stop undoubtedly referred to the old two-lane highways this truck stop once served when it was built in 1947, which made it the oldest truck stop in the state. Located in Commerce, Colorado, just outside of Denver, the 6 & 85 wasn't a modern truck stop by any means and rather very old school. There weren't banks of diesel fuel pumps or even a mechanic on site - just a diner-style restaurant and separate bar surrounded by plenty of truck parking. Whether truckers were stopping off to grab a bite before hitting the road again or going to tie one on in the bar before sleeping it off in their rig, Deno’s was a go-to spot for truck drivers for decades, remaining popular right up until their closure in 2017.
Description: There's not a lot in Baker, California, but at some point someone thought they needed a fictional art school and thus, the Baker School of Fine Arts was born. The thrifted reference for this one appears to be a novelty t-shirt as we're not able to find anything else on it, but love the strange and unique enough to bring it back for a new life.
Description: Based on a '60s drag racing waterslide decal from a private collection, Cap’n Smash appears to show the good Captain's final form. After years of hard living on the high seas, the former jovial, breakfast loving seaman *giggity* appears to have become a hardened sea dog who lives by the simple mantra, "fuck around and find out."
Description: LimeWire was a peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) platform that launched with its own client in 2000. LimeWire utilized the gnutella network and BitTorrent protocol to allow users share content by uploading and downloading content through the client. LimeWire offered both a free version and a paid enhanced version called LimeWire Pro, which, somewhat ironically, could be acquired through the regular LimeWire software as paid users shared their copies of Pro with the platform. LimeWire had a solid ten-year run before a lawsuit back by music industry heavyweights resulted in the company, and it's software client, being shut down in 2010.
Description: Red Devil Racing Fuels were formulated in Los Angeles, exclusively with gasoline product out of the El Segundo Refinery from genuine California crude. With advertising that played on variations of 'hotter than hell,' their smoking devil was a common sight around the west coast drag strips, both on fuel drums and decals on drag racers. While others made various octanes, Red Devil only made their 110 high test which was known to be a good 5 octane higher than stated, something that would come back to bite them a few years down the road.
Description: Springfield University was founded in 1952 and lacks a Latin motto, but are working on one by way of a latin motto contest. An immense variety of different courses are offered at the school, including nuclear physics, arts management and analysis of animation. According to one of the students, the class Passive Analysis of Visual Iconography, located at Anthro 101, was attended by everyone due to it exclusively showing cartoons. The school's nickname is the "Nittany Tide," a play on two mascots from slightly better known schools and as a further example of SU's overall lack of innovation, and originality.
Description: The Man-Thing is a large, slow-moving, empathic, humanoid swamp monster living in the Florida Everglades near a Seminole reservation and the fictitious town of Citrusville in Cypress County, Florida. A young biochemist, Dr. Theodore Sallis, is working in the Everglades as part of the Project Gladiator team, a group of scientists attempting to recreate the Super Soldier Serum. Dr. Sallis is transformed into The Man-Thing through the synergistic interaction of mystical energy and swamp mutagens, coupled with a dose of the Super Soldier Serum. Though the beast now lacks a normal human intellect and has shed any desire to communicate with human society, it nevertheless often becomes an accidental hero as it stumbles upon people in need.
Description: Introduced in 1979 by Ralston, Waffelos cereal was mighty tasty and a real hoot to boot! Waffelos was a breakfast cereal that tasted like buttery waffles with maple syrup and featured a mascot named Waffelo Bill who was just crazy about breakfast. During it's relatively short run, a Blueberry flavored version was added as well, but it too rode into the sunset with Waffelo Bill and his guitar playing horse with no name in 1982.
Description: The third generation Pontiac Firebird was introduced in late 1981 by Pontiac, alongside its bow tie cousin, for the 1982 model year. These were the first Firebirds available with factory fuel injection, four-speed automatic transmissions, five-speed manual transmissions, four-cylinder engines, 16-inch wheels, and hatchback bodies. The 3rd Generation of Firebirds consisted of three models: Firebird, Firebird S/E, and Firebird Trans Am. The Firebird was the base model, the Firebird S/E was the luxury version, and the Trans Am was the high-performance version. For 1982, the new Firebird had been completely restyled, with the windshield slope set at a dramatic, more aerodynamic 62 degrees and flush mounted side glass.
Description: Opened as the Spectrum in September 1967, Philadelphia's first modern indoor sports arena was built to be the home of the city's expansion hockey team, and also accommodated the existing pro basketball team The building was the second major sports facility built at the south end of Broad Street in an area previously known as East League Island Park, and now referred to simply as the South Philadelphia Sports Complex. Aside from sporting events, decades of concerts were staged at the Spectrum, which was highly praised for its acoustic properties, something that many say can be heard in live recordings made at the venue.
Description: On-Line Systems in was founded in 1979 in Simi Valley, California, by husband-and-wife, Ken and Roberta Williams. As a programmer for Big Blue, Ken had planned to create business software for personal computers, including the TRS-80. While looking through a host system of programs, discovered the text adventure Colossal Cave Adventure and encouraged Roberta to join him in playing it, and she was enthralled by the game. The pair studied other text adventures, though Roberta quickly became dissatisfied with the text-only format and realized that graphics could enhance the adventure gaming experience. With Ken's help with some of the programming, Roberta designed Mystery House, inspired by the novel of the same name.
Description: On-Line Systems was renamed Sierra On-Line in 1982, and they moved to Oakhurst, California. The "Sierra" name was taken from the Sierra Nevada mountain range that Oakhurst was near, and its new logo incorporated the imagery of a mountain reflecting that. By early 1984, InfoWorld estimated that Sierra was the world's 12th-largest microcomputer-software company, with $12.5 million in 1983 sales. Sierra became a public company in 1989, trading on the NASDAQ under the stock ticker "SIER". Additional investment from public funding allowed the company to engage in further acquisitions over the next several years. In 1990, Sierra released King's Quest V, the first Sierra On-Line game ever to have more than 500,000 copies sold.
Description: Softporn Adventure is a comedic, adult-oriented, text adventure game produced in 1981, making it the first erotic computer game ever made. The game was created by Charles Benton and released by On-Line Systems, later renamed Sierra On-Line. Years later, Softporn Adventure inspired the Leisure Suit Larry series of adult-oriented video games, and the first entry in that series, 1987's Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards, was a nearly direct graphical adaptation of Softporn Adventure. Another graphical version was released as Las Vegas for various Japanese computers in 1986. In the game, the player searches for certain items that will allow him to win the affections of three beautiful (and sometimes not-so-beautiful) women.
Description: Schoolhouse Rock! is an American interstitial programming series of animated musical educational short films (and later, videos) that aired during the Saturday morning children's programming block on U.S. television. The themes covered included grammar, science, economics, history, mathematics, and civics. The series' original run lasted from 1973 to 1984 and it was later revived from 1993 to 1996. Additional episodes were produced in 2009 for direct-to-video release. Schoolhouse Rock! debuted as a series in January 1973 with Multiplication Rock, a collection of animated shorts adapting the multiplication tables to songs. During the early '70s, Schoolhouse Rock was one of several short-form animated educational shorts that aired.
Description: E. E. Lohn. Co., or EELCO, was founded in 1956 in Inglewood, California and started out specializing in hardware for hot rods and dry lake racers. They eventually had a whole line of speed parts, but many remember them for their fuel tanks and fuel delivery hardware among other things.
Description: While organized drag racing came about in 1951, it was in the early '60s that the big three started paying attention. Detroit began quietly building stock-looking cars stuffed full of high-performance parts and no factory warranty, aimed squarely at taking drag strips by storm. With this new breed of off the lot drag racers, increasing numbers of people were suddenly able to get into drag racing without having to build a car from scratch, and boy did they ever. Once the bug had bitten them, they were all in as drag nuts and their stock racers began the never-ending modification process that all hot rodders go through in pursuit of speed.
Description: The Miami Pop Festival was the first major rock festival on America's east coast that took place December 28-30, 1968, at Gulfstream Park, a horse racing track in Hallandale, Florida, just north of Miami. It is sometimes confused with a separate event that took place seven months earlier, at the same venue, though the two events were unrelated. The earlier event was officially publicized on promotional materials and in radio ads as the "1968 Pop and Underground Festival," and "The 1968 Pop Festival," but later came to be referred to colloquially as the "Miami" Pop Festival, a practice which has led to confusion between the two events. The festival had a considerable line up of around 36 bands, with daily crowds estimated to at 100k.
Description: Founded in the small desert town of Sky Valley, California in 1971, the aptly named Sky Valley Van Works was a small shop doing big things during the heyday of van customization. Whether you were looking to go low with some serious street van attitude or looking for a go anywhere 4x4 conversion, Sky Valley Van Works could make it happen. From all out custom jobs like their 'Foxy Box' to basic upgrades like porthole windows and side pipes, the guys at Sky Valley were a true gem in the desert that was worth the drive to get your rig tricked out.
Description: All cars that go over 150 mph in the quarter mile are required to have and use a chute, and dual chutes are required for those who go over 200 mph. But why parachutes, why not bigger brakes? When it comes to stopping a race car after reaching triple digit speeds on the drag strip, nothing beats a parachute (or two if you're a real monster). At those speeds, even the best of mechanical brakes can't bring the car to a stop without overheating, so parachutes employ simple physics to create massive amounts of drag to help bring these land missiles to a stop inside the shutdown area.
Description: More American Graffiti is set over the course of four New Year's Eve holidays beginning in 1964 and tells four separate stories, one of which is that of John Milner, the head honcho of the racing scene in the first film, as his drag racing career advances. John's story follows him and the Milner Racing Team crew through a series of personal and professional ups and downs, culminating in a fatal finale. This Milner Racing Team design is a replica based on a screen used tee, ensuring it's accurate to those seen in the film.
Description: "It's a Location, Not a Vocation" is the motto for Hooker, Oklahoma, a small town in Texas County, Oklahoma, which as of the 2010 census, had a population of just 1,918. It is located approximately 20 miles northeast of Guymon on US Route 54 highway in the heart of Oklahoma's panhandle. The actual naming of the city honors local cattle foreman John “Hooker” Threlkeld, who came to the area in 1873 and is said to have been one of the best cattle ropers of all time.
Description: Based in Mount Airy, North Carolina, Jeffery Blackmon Trucking was a refrigerated carrier that primarily ran apples out of Washington State with their fleet of cab overs. After loading up with Washington's official state fruit in the Yakima Valley region, they would haul them back for distribution along the east coast.
Description: Super BMX Magazine evolved from the awkwardly named '70s publication, 'Minicycle/BMX Action' and was always considered an alternative to the mainstream BMX publications on the market. It ran from 1980 until 1988 and in its final years, changed names again to Super BMX & Freestyle and split their coverage of traditional BMX and the increasingly popular freestyle BMX.
Description: The Boston Red Stockings formed as the charter member of the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players in 1871, and several name changes later, The Boston Braves were born in 1912. The Boston franchise played at South End Grounds from 1871 to 1914 and at Braves Field from 1915 to 1952. The franchise would go on to move from Boston to Milwaukee, and then again to Atlanta, making it the oldest continuous professional baseball franchise in the country.
Description: Weber Speed Equipment started out in 1945 as Weber Tool Company, making some of the first aluminum performance fly wheels. As the company continued to expand their speed parts catalog with cams, clutches, and heads, becoming increasingly popular with hot rodders and racers alike, they changed their name to Weber Speed Equipment. Aside from making high quality, extreme high-performance parts, one of their biggest claims to fame was their 'blow up proof' guarantee on their flywheels, something that was a big draw to those pushing higher horsepower and revs in the early days of drag racing.
