Just a quick post to wish you all a Happy New Year! We hope that 2008 is your best year yet and look forward to staying in touch with you this coming year.

Thanks to all who visit AirbrushTour.com

Santa wasn’t the only one working late on Christmas eve as I completed my most recent painting: “Ardor” 48″ x 36″ on canvas prepared with gesso as outlined in my article:

“Creating the Perfect Ultra-Smooth Canvas for Airbrush”

My model for this painting is the beautiful Liz Ashley from a recent photo shoot with her in Las Vegas, NV. Track back to that post.

This week’s Pic of the Week is a gorgeous model signing autographs at SEMA 2007.

Didn’t get what you wanted for Christmas? When it comes to cars, you rarely do. Take, for example, this beautiful and rarely seen SSC Ultimate Aero (which I’m fairly certain was on my Christmas list). This is an amazing car that caught my eye from a hundred yards away, and drew me close like a moth to light. It was parked in front of one of our favorite toy stores - MotorCars of Las Vegas so I had to check out this rolling work of art up close. It didn’t take long - somewhere between its lines and its pedigree, the Ultimate Aero went on my short list of radical car favorites. After all, this car has most everything you could want in a dream car; beauty, style, speed and tons of carbon fiber. A high-tech masterpiece, the body and frame are constructed entirely of carbon fiber/composite/steel space frame. Weighing in with a dry weight of 2,750 lbs. makes this one strong and light machine. Aerodynamic too.

The Ultimate Aero is the fastest production car on the planet. Those are some serious bragging rights, so don’t believe us - check it out for yourself. It’s even received a Guiness Book of World Records award for achieving two-way times speed in excess of 256.15 MPH. So, until otherwise informed, we’re calling that good for the title of World’s Fastest Production Car.

QUICK SPECS*:
- 0-60 mph: 2.78 seconds
- 1/4 Mile: 9.90 seconds at 144 mph
- Top Speed: 257.41 MPH / Official Average: 256.15 MPH
- Skidpad: 1.05 g
- 0-100mph-0: 11.66
- 60mph-0 (braking): 103 feet

*Source: Shelby Super Cars

It’s as you would expect from a legendary car builder like Shelby. Did we mention the SCC, as in SSC Ultimate Aero, stands for Shelby Super Cars? You can learn more about this Shelby Super Car at: MotorCars of Las Vegas website. These guys specialize in exotic, highline and luxury automobiles and are the exclusive North American dealer for the world’s fastest production car, the SSC Ultimate Aero. But if your tastes differ, they also showcase Aston Martin, Porsche, Ferrari, Jaguar, Lamborghini, Rolls Royce, BMW, Mercedes and a plethora of other exotics - you get the idea.

Get used to this view unless you’re the one behind the wheel of this beast.

Doors up. As you would expect, it takes some effort to get into, but once your inside she fits like a glove. I’m 6′ and it fit me right anyway. Once you’re inside, you’ll get a great view of the carbon fiber dash and panels, mixed with custom Recaro seats and ultra-contemporary interior. And if you’ve got somewhere between $500k-600k, you can enjoy that view as often as you like.

Leading the pack, and in good company, the Ultimate Aero runs the hills with three beautiful Lamborghini locals, courtesy of the Ferrari Club of Las Vegas.

Well, that’s it for this one. For me, it’s off for a couple laps at the track… in my mind anyway .

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Season’s Greetings from A.D. and Kathryn Cook at AirbrushTour.com

Vegas Socialites were hard at work this year putting together the most kick-ass party on the planet - and they succeeded big time. This year’s event featured amazingly beautiful babes (coquettes), fabulous food by world-class chef Kerry Simon and thumping entertainment at the “not officially open yet” CatHouse Loungerie - all for a good cause.

The Autism Research Institute was the beneficiary of the raffle which included an almost endless list of prizes from many sponsors including, Grey Goose Vodka, Toy Share, Social House, Hon Photo, A.D. Cook and Dave Navarro. Chris Angel was celebrating his birthday and he made an appearance.

The lucky winner of the hand-signed, one-of-of-a-kind guitar donated by Dave Navarro.

The winner of the A.D. Cook art is selected by A.D. with the help of Hosts Tiffany Masters and Josh Nasar.

Coquette Christle with A.D.

The rumor is that these beautiful coquettes will be doing a lot of dancing in gorgeous lingerie at the CatHouse after it officially opens - and you can buy them for yourself or a loved one! (The lingerie - not the models - of course)

Host Tiffany Masters and A.D. Cook.

Sam Hon (Hon Photo and Myspace.com/SamHon) and A.D. Sam is a very gifted and busy Las Vegas photographer.

Josh Nasar, A.D. Cook and Phillip Marais.

A.D. Cook with VIP Host Timea Molnar

Kathy with Robin Leach - visit his blog at: Luxe-Life

Kathy and A.D. - Merry Christmas

For more pics of this event visit Vegas Paparazzi.com.

Visit the CatHouse Loungerie at the Luxor when you’re in Las Vegas.

Or check out their MySpace Page now.

Just a tease… this week’s Pic of the Week is a gorgeous babe at CatHouse in Las Vegas. It’s not officially open yet but was the venue for the killer 2nd Annual Holiday Socialite Party and benefit for the Autism Research Institute. We were there.

Keep your feed fresh because we’ll be bringing you lots of pics from that romp this weekend.

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Happy Birthday Wayne

ANEST-Iwata’s Innovations Magazine for the Fall of 2007 is now available for download. Get it by clicking here.

This issue is not to be missed…

* The industry conversion to waterborne paints is an important one to ponder. Learn how Anest-Iwata is addressing this issue and get Craig Fraser’s expert commentary on the subject.

* Dennis Mathewson from CosmicAirbrush.com goes to the AWFS show. We also covered this event last July and you can learn about it here.

* Bob Soroka’s new DVD is out - learn about it in Innovations, then go get your copy at Coast Airbrush online.

* The 2007 Ultimate Air Affair Recap - Read about the stars and the cool projects at this year’s Ultimate Air Affair in Salt Lake City, UT. The next best thing to being there is reading about it. We’ve run stories on all the recent Air Affair events and you can get the goods on them right here. But of course you’ll want to be there at the next one. Sign up for an Air Affair event in 2008. Seats fill fast so mark your calendars early.

Previous issues of Innovations can be downloaded here.

We thought you might enjoy this Chrome Shop Mafia “Brain Freeze” project for CMT’s Trick My Truck - painted for Lickety Split Ice Cream in Arlington, TN.

Painted by Ryno and crew, this ‘cool as ice cream’ truck made an appearance at the ANEST-Iwata’s display during the NACE Show in Las Vegas. As a side note, The NACE Show is the world’s largest collision repair event, held Nov. 3-6 at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas and draws more than 35,000 attendees. NACE coincides with the SEMA Show which attracted more than 100,000 industry leaders from over 100 countries. Learn more about NACE here or The SEMA Show here.

Ryno with a young fan and ice cream lover.

Visit “Brain Freeze’s” MySpace page or learn more at Lickety Split Ice Cream, including ‘before’ and ‘after’ pics.

Jump start your year with the girls from Fast Dates. Imagine the world’s finest custom bikes together with sexy PlayBoy centerfold models in revealing lingerie. Or top factory world’s super bikes with the sexiest bikini-clad babes. All this and more for an exciting 2008. Christmas and the New Year is upon us so order now.

Garage Girls 2008 Deluxe Wall Calendar

Fast Dates 2008 Deluxe Wall Calendar

Iron & Lace 2008 Deluxe Wall Calendar

Trackback to 2006 L.A. Calendar Show pics on AirbriushTour

Vegas is a very entertaining city. Even the bathrooms at the Hilton Hotel men’s room have a sense of humor.