WOW! Nimrod Yaffle IMed me last night and brought this to my attention. A Google image search for a “Speed Racer Helmet” brings two of my Flickr picks to the first page of the search results!
http://images.google.com/images?q=speed+racer+helmet&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi
This is the car Nimrod is making:
