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The coolest car accessories?

Have we found the world’s coolest car accessory business? Maybe.

Likewise make shifters, steering wheels, drift buttons and other things to make your car stand out from the crowd. Everything is expertly made, beautifully presented and cheekily named. For example their stout, globular shift knob is called the Nad, naturally!

Something else that makes this brand stand out is their exceptional Shopify online store that allows you to build your own accessories. The level of customisation options is incredible and everything is done with Likewise’s trademark cheekiness. The site was built by our old friends and Brisbane Shopify gurus BA Creative – great work guys.

Check them out at WEARELIKEWISE.COM, but be careful, you’ll end up with custom aluminium gear knob with a pink knurled ring and a poop emoji!

Web Design In Brisbane

What a tangled web we weave

I very much doubt that Sir Walter Scott had the internet in mind when he coined that immortal phrase. But here we are weaving a web of links.

The latest link that I want to share on Blacksteelies is Web Design In Brisbane a website that is designed to provide links to business related to the web design industry in Brisbane, Australia. It is run by our partners BA Creative.

Black But Not Steel: Fiat 2300 Coupe

Fiat 2300 Coupe

Thanks to BlackSteelies reader Gert for reminding us of the beauty of the Fiat 2300 coupe and for sending this great image of a lowered example sporting black wheels – it looks ready for anything.

The 2300 coupe is a very elegant car and even looks good without black wheels!

Fiat 2300 Coupe

For a final word on the 2300 Coupe check out this gorgeous video on Petrolicious: http://www.petrolicious.com/the-fiat-2300-s-coupe-is-suspended-in-time. Did he really say “…a little island inside the ocean of technology and modernity”. I want that on a t-shirt!

Alfa Romeo Giulia Ti

Ok, now that we have finally got that Delorean monkey off our backs we can get back to more regular posts. And what better way to get things rolling along again than to introduce a new car to the BlackSteelies stable. I present our 1968 Alfa Romeo Giulia 1300 Ti.

The little car is turning out to be quite the media darling with a starring role in the Our Cars section of our sister website ItalianCar.com.au

Eagle-eyed viewers will have noticed that the car does not currently sport black steel wheels. This is being rectified post haste.

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Delorean Trifecta Part One: “Fitz and Van do it all”

Pontiac_Grand_Prix_Coupe_1962_by_AF-VKThere’s a theme running through the next three posts we’re bringing you, namely Mr John Z Delorean.

First up here’s the story of the fabulous artists Art Fitzpatrick and Van Kaufman who were employed by Pontiac to create beautiful, aspirational images for ads and brochures. In the sixties most car companies were turning to photography to promote their wares, but Pontiac bucked the trend and used the prodigiously talented pair to conjure up sumptuous images the old fashioned way; with a paint brush. Continue reading →