1/2 Price Presidential Paint Sale

The best deal of the year. Almost Everything's Presidential Paint with 2 year nationwide warranty is 1/2 Price! Come in before Friday for ridiculous savings. Make your car look presentable again before you see your friends for New Years  ;)

Regular $600, now just $299!

Almost Everything Autobody
37414 Centralmont Place
Fremont, California 94536
510-745-9770

Kobi Eshun Photographs

Tenuous link to cars today. . .

I invite you to look at the breathtaking photography of my good friend, Kobi Eshun. Kobi is a car guy, inventor, photographer, world champion stunt kite flyer and very proud father. He and I met in our first job out of school and we roomed together for a few years in the old Besler Building (coincidentally the factory where the Doble Steam Car and Besler Steam Plane were produced in the 1920s-1930s) in Emeryville, California.

"Kobe" was born in Ghana, went to school in England and Texas and now calls California home.

Click on the sample photographs below to see his photo albums. The photos are copyrighted and may not be reproduced without permission from Kobi Eshun.

Besler Steam Plane & Doble Steam Car

Amazing 1933 film from the Besler Company of the Doble Steam Car and the Besler Steam Plane. I actually lived in the old Doble/Besler factory in Emeryville, California from about 1986 to 1993, when Emeryville was still an old industrial wasteland and cheap housing for artists instead of the shopping mecca it is today.

The Doble is a little known but magnificent automobile that competed with the likes of Rolls Royce & Duesenberg. When the Doble brothers' company failed, William Besler bought the factory & continued to develop steam power. He worked with General Motors for many years on steam power. Besler also provided smoke screen generators to Allied forces during WWII.




More links on Doble Steam Cars & Besler Steam Engines:

http://www.damninteresting.com/the-last-great-steam-car
http://ucblibrary3.berkeley.edu/gendl/EADprint/doble2.pdf
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=kt3p30193p;developer=local;style=oac4;doc.view=items



Jay Leno writes about his Doble: http://www.popularmechanics.com/automotive/jay_leno_garage/1302916.html?page=1

http://steamingdownsouth.com/Doble/doble.html