Don't Mess with Texas

ca. 1868-70, [tintype portrait of a demure cowboy wearing a hat, knife, revolver and boots with spurs]

via the Southern Methodist Central University Library, Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photography Collection

endlessme:

Via hellformotors

monotunes-m:

one revolver made in Spain, 3 barrels, 18 shots, 3 firing pins, 6.35mm pistol cartridge

Makes me want to be a Texan.

She was on my land, Clem. I say let’s “do” her!

(Source: olderoticart)

mudwerks:

(via Carroll Shelby, Builder of Cobra Sports Car, Dies at 89 - NYTimes.com)

Carroll Shelby behind the wheel in 1964.

Carroll Shelby, a Texas chicken farmer turned hot-rodder who went on to build innovative sports cars like the Cobra that challenged Europe’s longtime dominance of road racing as well as high-performance versions of production cars like the Ford Mustang, died on Thursday in Dallas. He was 89…

In the 1960s, Shelby raised the profile of American racing machines on the international sports-car circuit by packing powerful Ford V-8 engines into lightweight British roadsters, and by developing racing cars for Ford.

His Shelby Cobras proved worthy competitors to the likes of Ferrari, Maserati and Jaguar and became prized collector’s items. Today they command six- and seven-figure prices…

sisterwolf:

The Suarez Family

warmchills:

Edwige Fenech

bad-postcards:

DOMAIN OF TEXAS and its COLONIES

HOWDY FROM TEXAS (TEJAS)

This ain’t no bull. We ain’t never heerd of Alasky. We’ve always been the biggest. Why Brewster county in Texas is bigger than the whole state of Rode Island. YA’LL COME (EVER CHANCE YE GIT).

I’m a native of YANKEE-LAND. They have the hand symbol upside down.