#Dean Jeffries

[kindle-garten]

[wheelsgoroundincircles]

Mantaray by Dean Jeffries

Mantaray by Dean Jeffries

The holy grail of the hot rod generation was to be able to fabricate beautiful car bodies in steel and other materials. Many of the kids who became Hot Rod building legends had honed their fabrication skills in the hot house of the WW2 American economy. The war ended and charged-up servicemen came home and wanted the buzz of driving fast cars. It was boom time in America and everything seemed possible.

Dean Jeffries was one of this generation of brilliant mechanics and fabricators with an audacious enough vision to dream with his eyes wide open. Having worked extensively with AC Cobra creator Carroll Shelby, he began to build the Mantaray in 1963 in response to a call for submissions to a high prestige competition that had been posted by a promoter called Al Slonaker.

The young Californian fused two old Maserati single seater chassis he had acquired and welded them together. The suspension, brakes, and steering were kept on for the finished article but apart from four Weber carburetors, the car was, he told Street Rodder Magazine recently “true-blue American, right down to the 15-inch magnesium-cast Halibrand wheels and the bred-for-Indianapolis Goodyear Blue Streak Speedway Special tires.”

Unsurprisingly, the gorgeously curvacious body Jeffries created (which was, apparently, hand-built from no less than 86 sheets of metal), was enough to win him the ‘contest of fame’. This not only won him a prize of $10,000 and a trip to Europe, but also changed the way the world thought about Hot Rods.

This is what we call truly creative car culture. And we love it.

Mantaray by Dean Jeffries

[forestshadow-wolf]

This is Not CoD related, but infact having to do with the HTTYD live action that's coming out.

More specifically one problem that I'm seeing almost IMMEDIATELY and I hate it so I'm going to talk about it

Ok Before I actually get into it I want to preface with this: Not everyone is going to agree with me, some people might even think I'm incredibly wrong. And that's okay because this is my opinion and you have yours, and I, infact, am not saying that you have to take my opinion as fact

Anyway! SO the HTTYD live action has started filming. There's been talk about it for years, I'll be honest, I never really thought it would happen. Especially not this soon after the third movie.

Whether I'm excited for this film or not is yet to be seen. On one hand I definitely don't believe anything could top the original. And live actions are not always the best remake, especially for animated movies like this one. But on the other hand they DO have Dean Deblois back, and they've kept the original actor for Stoick, so at least we'll recognize one voice. Also I have high hopes for the soundtrack, since John Powell will be back. But again I'm still skeptical about the movie.

What I really wanted to talk about is, I just saw a tiktok talking about the movie (TT user: Straw Hat Goofy), I don't really have much to say about the video itself, it was good informationally. But I wanted to talk about the comments.

So as was stated in the video and confirmed officially, Actress: Nico Parker will be cast to play Astrid. Fine, dandy, lovely, I see no problem. Apparently not everyone thinks this way...

(Ignore my shitty editing to scribble out usernames and pfps)

Theres more. A lot more :(

Not the only reason I can see people actually complaining about the casting of Nico parker is (apparently) blatant racism.

Like I understand that the original movies Astid was a blue-eyed, blonde haired girl, but I don't think this slight change should be that big of a deal. If her acting is shit, historically, she wouldn't have been cast. And her appearance (especially something she CANNOT change about herself) WILL NOT make or break the movie.

Let me repeat that

NICO PARKER'S SKIN COLOR WILL NOT MAKE THE MOVIE SHITTY

Guys, this is the same thing that happened/is happening with the Percy Jackson series, people objected to Leah Jeffries being casted as Annabeth. But Leah is a phenomenal actor, and in my opinion, is the perfect actress for the role.

If you really have a problem with Astrid not looking like she did in the animated movies then DON'T WATCH the live action. Simple as that. Ignorance is bliss in this case, so be blissful. It's 2024 people are dying, people are living, and people still can't change the color of their skin (nor should they have to (or want to, especially if it's only to fit society) even if they could)

[svu-barisi-digital-work]

Spent way too many hours making this collage. A compilation of actors/actresses who have made SVU what it is. Can you identify all the actors and their characters? (2nd image shows the black and white of those who have passed on).

[mayakrish08]

SEASON 2 CELEBRATION!

That CONSTANT Party Horn-ing oh my gods 😂

“LEAH BREATHE, LEAH BREATHE! LOOKING INTO MY EYES, LEAH!” 😂

For the record, Leah started it first. And she straight up went for Walker’s face. Told ya, she IS the biggest bully in the pack, like Nayla in the Hakuna Mipaka Pride! Damn, suddenly now I wanna see Leah beside Nayla! Queens rule!!

P.S: Check out Dean Schneider! He is a true inspiration, and I LOVE the lions! The lions who, just like our trio, are growing so fasssttt! 😭❤️

[politicaldilfs]

After the U.S. House chaos of this week, I’m thinking more about Patrick McHenry, Bruce Westerman, Dean Phillips, and Hakeem Jeffries. I’d love a bipartisan scene with those four 🍆💦

For sure, very sexy daddies.

[gabybeatrix2103]

[vintagesffantasyactors]

Sci Fi/Fantasy Men Round 1 Masterpost

All polls are now up!

Ben Browder vs Mark Goddard

Jonathan Harris vs Richard Biggs

Jeff Conaway vs Rene Auberjonois

Lionel Jeffries vs Alan Napier

Paul McGann vs William Forward

Bill Paxton vs David Boreanaz

Jonathan Frakes vs Kerwin Matthews

Kurt Russell vs Jason Isaacs

Sam J Jones vs William Shatner

Michael O'Hare vs Edward James Olmos

Walter Koenig vs Frazer Hines

Edward Van Sloan vs Peter Cushing

William Russell vs Anthony Stewart Head

Alex Winter vs Michael J Fox

Brent Spiner vs Lance Henriksen

Jerry O'Connell vs Scott Bakula

Harrison Ford vs John Phillip Law

Christopher Lee vs Kiefer Sutherland

Adam West vs Danny John-Jules

Bruce Campbell vs Ted Raimi

Avery Brooks vs Ken Marshall

Vincent Price vs Dwight Frye

Michael Dorn vs Jerry Doyle

Gary Conway vs Andre the Giant

Cary Elwes vs Michael York

Charlton Heston vs Leslie Nielsen

Arnold Schwarzenegger vs Rutger Hauer

Dean Jones vs Ernie Hudson

Alec Guinness vs David Warner

Jeffrey Combs vs Peter Weller

Keanu Reeves vs Keir Dullea

Christopher Lloyd vs Malcolm McDowell

Dean Cain vs Christopher Reeve

Peter MacNicol vs Warwick Davis

Alexander Siddig vs Gareth Thomas

Clancy Brown vs Patrick Stewart

Patrick Swayze vs Bruce Willis

Cesar Romero vs Colin Baker

Haruo Nakajima vs Duncan Regehr

Ray Bolger vs Dick Van Dyke

Chris Sarandon vs Wesley Snipes

Patrick Troughton vs Jason Miller

Mandy Patinkin vs Jason Carter

Milos Kopecky vs Georges Melies

Michael Keaton vs Tony Todd

James Spader vs Brendan Fraser

Michael Shanks vs Oded Fehr

James Doohan vs Ricardo Montalban

Will Smith vs David Duchovny

Jeff Goldblum vs Donald Sutherland

Kevin McCarthy vs Leonard Nimoy

Harold Ramis vs Bill Pullman

Claude Rains vs Fredric March

Peter Davison vs Garrett Wang

Kyle McLachlan vs Nicholas Lea

Doug Jones vs Vladimir Korenev

Karl Urban vs Harry Hamlin

Tom Baker vs David Tomlinson

Buster Crabbe vs Billy Dee Williams

Patrick McGoohan vs Ed Wasser

George Takei vs Guy Williams

Paul Darrow vs Bruce Boxleitner

Brad Dourif vs Christopher Walken

Andrew Robinson vs Armin Shimerman

Nicol Williamson vs Sam Neill

David Bowie vs Joe Morton

Peter Capaldi vs Alan Rickman

Mark Hamill vs Rick Moranis

Arnold Vosloo vs Boris Karloff

Peter Jurasik vs Roger Delgado

Andreas Katsulas vs Craig Charles

Stephen Furst vs LeVar Burton

Richard Dean Anderson vs Laurence Fishburne

Tim Russ vs Colm Meaney

Colin Clive vs Tim Curry

Val Kilmer vs DeForest Kelley

James Stewart vs Conrad Veidt

Gene Wilder vs Bela Lugosi

Raul Julia vs John De Lancie

Nicholas Courtney vs Mitch Pileggi vs Rod Serling

[renren-006]

Lost Love Series/ Part 1- Atlanta-Virginia

Negan x fem reader

plot: reader and negan were together before the world ended, but after it did they got separated. what happens when they find each-other again? (the first part is just establishing where the reader is, not much mention of negan yet! will be maybe a 2/3 part story)

A/N: hey hey! for this story i am just on a Jeffry dean morgan kick and wanted to write something longer for him! hope you enjoy and leave some comments for ideas and requests are still open for anyone wanting to leave one!

warnings: violence,

Word count: 1140

other parts: Part 2: Heart Strings

You met Rick and his group in Atlanta. You had become friends with Beth when she joined you at the Hospital before she died. Yourself and Noah were at first unsure of the new group welcoming you in. You felt bad for them, having lost the young girl with such fire in her eyes. You loved Beth and you had cared for her, and Noah, while you were all at the Hospital. How you ended up getting the courage to leave and to watch the man, Daryl, carry her body out of the building, you didn't know. You stumbled after them, hopeless and tired. You had lost many people over the years of this apocalyptic world, but this loss stung your heart. You knew what it was like to love and lose people, you had lost your husband right when the world had ended, or at least you assumed he was dead after these 2ish years of never seeing him. 

The group meandered their way out of the city. Those next few weeks were a blur. You lost Noah soon after Beth when they found his home had been overrun, and not too long after that another one of Beth's friends had died. Three people in the matter of weeks had been swept away in front of your eyes. You had seen so much death that the essence of losing was something you were used too. 

The long road ahead of them stretched for miles, and miles. You were tired and so were your companions. Your company was not unnoticed by them and they knew they could never abandon you or leave you because you were all alive and together for a reason. The priest was the only one to try and talk to you, seeing as the rest of the group were more than fine never speaking to him. You took his company with grace and tried your best to talk with him.

“You’ve been wearing a ring since we met you” he said, glancing down at the emerald diamond on your finger. He had given that to you five years ago, of those three years you spent with him before the world ended two years ago. 

“My husband gave it to me” you told him, he glanced up at me. 

“You look young,” he said. 

“I guess I am.” you told the priest. 

“Where is he now?” he asked, you froze my face reading my uncertainty.

“I don't know” The conversation lulled after that.

*

You sat across from Negan at the dinner place the two of you went too. You had been out of college for a decent amount of time now while Negan was a few years older than you. You were in your late twenties while he was in his late thirties. You met him a few years ago, two to be exact, at your favorite bar. You two hit it off and he worried for a while that his age and how he was a bit older than you would scare you off, it didn't. Now that you had been with him for almost 2 and a half years the lines of age and life blurred and you just cared about being with him. The dinner was nice, soft jazz music filled the restaurant and the quiet talking of others there lulled the atmosphere that you almost didn't notice him bring out the ring. It was a shock to you but you felt instantly happy after seeing what he brought out. 

“Y/N will you make me the happiest man and marry me?” Negan asked, the restaurant filled with happy people turning towards your table. 

“Oh my god! Yes! Yes absolutely!” you told him, launching  from your chair to hug him in the middle of the restaurant. That day was one of the happiest for you, besides your small little wedding the two of you had. It was your parents and your friends gathered in a small courtroom a few months later to officially make you man and wife. Neither of you wanted something big and neither were very religious, so a small court wedding was. The engagement ring of a simple small band with little gems was soon joined by your emerald cut diamond one that smarkled in the sunlight. You wore that ring every day and he wore his band and never once took it off, more than happy to have you and it by his side. 

*

The topic of him never arose again and you knew the others had heard the conversation, given the looks you received from Sasha and Maggie. They both looked as if they wanted to know more, ask about my life before the world ended and before you had met them. You lingered alongside Sasha for a bit, she gave me a questionable look, You okay? I looked up at the gray clouded skies, something was brewing. You nodded back at Sasha solemnly, I'm fine. She nodded her head understanding not wanting to talk anymore about the loss. 

Everything that happened before was just motions, you just went through motions of surviving, but now, now was different. It was really the things you experienced and there were people my age that had also gone through hard times and lost many. You didn't have any room to complain about my losses when everyone had their own experiences with the living dead, and the dead that haunt. 

Surviving that night after the rain poured down on us became our next mission. With the storm it brought a horde of walkers towards the barn we were held up in. The doors had to be held shut by us that night, struggling to hold them with everyone's bodies against each other, the feeling of spirits breaking as we did. When the doors didn't need to be held anymore and everyone collapsed from the exhaustion you curled up on the floor and slept soundly from the exhaustion. 

You woke the next morning to the sun sparkling on your face from the splits in the boarded wall. You sat up, looking around at the others awake and asleep. The day flew by fast for you, the storm's mess and the new man leading you towards his home, you didn't know where the night before and the day's end started or ended. You were at a loss as to what had happened the past couple of weeks, like the rest of them you were going through the motions of surviving. Once you arrived at this new home a twinge in your hard pounded. Something was different about this place about Verginia, something that felt like home. You looked around the area outside the gates, no familiar scents, places or people, but still your heart pounded like it was a new, foreign place.

[m-artsoul]

02/02/23

i told dad i'm queer. he said he really wanted grandchildren. once, i really wanted a father.

— anita jeffries, "my miracle now"

NOTE : this one is very much inspired by a post by enochianspells (link in the replies). the jackting joices in 14x13 are everything to me. 

john’s “i guess i had hoped eventually you’d get yourself a normal life, a peaceful life, a family” being greeted by dean’s “i have a family” is so insane.

[kindle-garten]

[wheelsgoroundincircles]

The Bettencourt-Zupan Coupe

The late 1940s marked the beginning of the custom car culture with modified cars first appearing in magazines and car shows. One of the first highly influential models that gained wide recognition was the Bettencourt-Zupan 1949 Mercury. This car was the first customized “Lead Sled” Mercury model that set the template for thousands that came after it. When they built the car, it became popular and was in several magazines. However, by the end of the ’60s, it was outdated. After the original owner died in an accident, they sold it to the famous SoCal customizer Dean Jeffries.

But one night in 1970, someone stole the car in front of his shop and he never found it. The custom car guys are on the lookout for this extremely important, valuable piece of the American car culture. The only trace was a pair of photographs that were allegedly taken in the 1980s. Those pictures suggest the car still exists, but it could be in a private collection.

[thislovintime]

With the Monkeemobile. Photos 1 & 2 by Gene Trindl/mptv images and Alamy Stock Photo.

“I see [Micky Dolenz] around from time to time. He lives near here. He made it; he crawled up that ladder. We’re still friends, so many years after the Monkees went off the air. [Davy Jones] was the little English guy. He was not a car guy; he was into horses. He wanted to be a jockey, and he was just crawling up that ladder. […] [Peter Tork] was an oddball. [Michael Nesmith] was very much a car guy. He knew what he was doing with driving and things like that. I built a little Mini up for him, and jazzed it all up with paint. And I painted a real bitchin’ boat for him.” - Dean Jeffries, Dean Jeffries: 50 Fabulous Years In Hot Rods, Racing & Film (2009)

Speaking of cars...

“Did I tell you, while I was in London I bought a red MGB-GT sports car, with a black interior. I had no real intention of buying one. I was actually looking at them because Marilyn Schlossberg — our publicity director — wanted to buy one, and I thought they looked so groovy I just had to buy one myself. We (the other three guys and myself) then presented Marilyn with her MGB-GT as a birthday gift. I am not really much of a car nut, but this car is a real groove, and man, it really travels!” - Peter Tork, Fabulous 208, 1967

“[‘MGB-GT’ is] my Homage to my old car, one of the great loves of my life. It used to stop running within coasting distance of service stations and like that. Mike joins me on the back-ups.” - Peter Tork, Stranger Things Have Happened 1994 liner notes

“Peter was a really bad driver. He was reckless, he took a lot of chances. I clearly remember this car [the red MGB-GT) and following [him] over Mulholland Drive in my [Volvo] P1800. I was trying to keep up with him but I was scared, I thought this is reckless teenage James Dean stuff. He always drove fast. He drove like he was immortal.” - James Lee Stanley, Stranger Things Have Happened vinyl sleeve notes

More about the Tork song "MGB-GT" here.

[charsoamerican]

┊͙ introductory/get to know me post ┊͙

⟿ heyy! my name is charlotte <3

⟿ im a minor so nty creepy tumblr bots

⟿ i mostly post abt books and taylor swift

⟿ my favorite colors are dark blue, dark red, emerald green, and tan

⟿ im a libra

⟿ swiftie since og red era (kind of)

more facts abt me!

favorites:

⟿ book boyfriends: jameson hawthorne, nash hawthorne, xander hawthorne, grayson hawthorne, charlie sampson, dean redding, ravi singh, jacks, arthur gotti

⟿ albums: folklore, midnights, ttpd, reputation, speak now, 1989, fearless, evermore, lover, emails i cant send, guts, sour, good riddance, radical optimism, found heaven, did you know theres a tunnel under ocean blvd, silence between songs, eternal sunshine

⟿ celebrities: taylor swift, olivia rodrigo, gracie abrams, sabrina carpenter, conan gray, matt sturniolo, nick sturniolo, chris sturniolo, madison beer, walker scobell, leah sava jeffries, louis partridge, emma stone, renae rapp, taylor lautner, taylor dome/lautner, travis kelce, jason kelce

⟿ singers: taylor swift, olivia rodrigo, gracie abrams, lana del rey, sabrina carpenter, conan gray, madison beer, ariana grande, the neighborhood, billie eilish, cigarettes after sex, harry styles, dua lipa, one direction, maisie peters, alex g

⟿ books/series: the inheritance games, the summer of broken rules, betting on you, the naturals, percy jackson, agggtm, ouabh, five survive, anatomy, powerless, love & gelato, the lunar chronicles, heartless

things I love <3

⟿ taylor

⟿ the sturniolo triplets

⟿ gilmore girls

⟿ old fashioned stuff

⟿ olivia

⟿ converse

⟿ volleyball

⟿ ranch (don’t judge that this made it on my list)

⟿ rom com book covers

⟿ cds and vinyls

˚₊‧꒰ა ☆ ໒꒱ ‧₊˚

my pinterest:

my playlist:

my goodreads:

[heckcareoxytwit]

The Canadian Characters of Marvel Comics picspam

1st pic = Wolverine (James 'Logan' Howlett)

2nd pic = Guardian (James MacDonald Hudson)

3rd pic = Vindicator (Heather McNeil Hudson)

4th pic = Aurora (Jeanne-Marie Beaubier)

5th pic = Northstar (Jean-Paul Beaubier)

6th pic = Sasquatch (Walter Langkowski)

7th pic = Shaman (Michael Twoyoungmen)

8th pic = Snowbird (Narya)

9th pic = Puck (Eugene Judd)

10th pic = Marrina (Marrina Smallwood)

11th pic = Talisman (Elizabeth Twoyoungmen)

12th pic = Box II (Madison Jeffries)

13th pic = Diamond Lil (Lillian Crawley Jeffries)

14th pic = Wild Child (Kyle Gibney)

15th pic = Flex (Adrian Corbo)

16th pic = Radius (Jared Corbo)

17th pic = Murmur (Arlette Truffaut)

18th pic = Major Mapleleaf (Louis Edmond Sadler Jr) and his flying horse, Thunder

19th pic = Puck II (Zuzha Yu)

20th pic = Nemesis (Amelia Weatherly)

21st pic = Yukon Jack (Yukotujakzurjimozoata)

22nd pic = Persuasion (Kara Killgrave)

23rd pic = Windshear (Colin Ashworth Hume)

24th pic = Somnus (Carl Valentino)

25th pic = Snowguard (Amka Aliyak)

26th pic = Box (Roger Bochs)

27th pic = Manikin (Whitman Knapp)

28th pic = Squid Boy (Sammy Paré)

29th pic = Goblyn (Goblyn Dean)

30th pic = Deadpool (Wade Wilson)

HAPPY CANADA DAY!

[silverkat1620]

I realize that it's kind of a minor fandom and that this is a minor ship (assuming it is a ship and not just me floating on a pool noodle) but does anyone out there who has read Superpowereds by Drew Hayes also ship Dean Blaine Jeffries/Sean Pendleton?

Seriously, am I pool noodling it or what???