Just A Car Guy
Cool things with wheels since 2006
Friday, April 19, 2024
the 1979 Porsche 924 Sebring was built to commemorate the victories at Sebring with a car that regular people could buy, so they took the absolute slowest car they sold and slapped a few stripes and stickers on it
I'd have posted more today, like yesterdays plethora of great stuff, but I had to focus on job applications
on the last couple of days, I got tips and so I felt able to post more, but today there were no tips (and that's ok!) but I feel safely distracted by posting when I've got a days pay in tips, and when I'm back to being freaked out about not having a job and a way to pay bills I can't post on the blog without mental anguish that I'm being self destructive and NOT doing the right thing, getting a new job.
But when I'm busy working, I don't have much time for blogging, and in those rare times when I am job hunting, I don't have the money to get me by
So, it's quite a catch 22... I've so thoroughly enjoyed myself blogging, as doing this blog is the result of enjoying myself learning about vehicular things, but, it's not a productive use of time when I must focus on job hunting
Singaporean firm whose ship took down the Baltimore bridge just cited an 1851 maritime law to cap liability at $44 million
A report from credit rating agency Morningstar DBRS predicts the bridge collapse could become the most expensive marine insured loss in history, $2 billion to $4 billion.
A woman was escorted off a Delta Air Lines flight for not wearing a bra. She was wearing a shirt. WTF Delta?
"I wore the same clothing any man might wear. I also have a chest smaller than many men on that flight. Where does Delta draw the line?"
KHP ordered to pay plaintiffs $2.3 million for unconstitutional ‘Kansas two-step’ traffic policy
Somehow NO ONE in Kansas Law Enforcement, the Kansas Police Union, the Sheriff's departments, the many city police departments, the Kansas district attorneys, the Kansas Capitol Police, the state Attorney General, the university law professors, the law students, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, the Kansas Commission on Peace Officers' Standards and Training, the Kansas Department of Transportation, Kansas Association of Chiefs of Police, Kansas Sheriff’s Association, Kansas County and District Attorneys Association, Kansas Peace Officers Association, Kansas Fraternal Order of Police, Kansas Crime Stoppers Association, nor any of the other 371 law enforcement agencies employing 7,450 sworn police officers, about 266 for each 100,000 residents, had enough courage or integrity to take the matter up and denounce the unconstitutional policy of the highway patrol violating the civil rights of the people, and BREAKING the HIGHEST LAW which is the constitution, and their oaths of office.
Shame on them all for standing by while bullies in badges committed the civil rights violation of their families, neighbors, classmates, co-workers, and fellow Americans.
actor Robert Stack used to race at El Mirage! and at 16-years old he and he his brother won the International Outboard Motor Championships in Italy! (thank you George!)
Thursday, April 18, 2024
1962 Ford Galaxie 500 Saloon Racer built to production based FIA European Sedan Series of the early 1960’s, using a 1962 FIA Rule Book, built on spec to sell to someone that wanted a track day car they could drive to the local cruise or car show.. it sold for only 45k
https://www.vinracer.com/galaxie-vr004 out of So Cal, and I think I featured one of their Falcons already.
The first cover of Four Wheeler Magazine had this photo, and it's so good, and has such and interesting story, they used it again on their 60th anniversary issue and dove into the story
In 1962, the Four Wheeler Magazine was just being published and Aileen’s picture of the Four Corners Jeep Club driving down Black Bear Pass was chosen as their first cover.
Ferdinand Ellerman, astronomer, with a cast iron frying pan and a grease gun!
what the frickin heck is this? An Australian Steam Powered Whim! Only 4 ever made!
if I had the financial ability, I'd go to all the car museums, and junkyards, and show you so dang much interesting stuff... like tires from companies that went out of business in the 40s due to union labor impasse
Found in trees dead is too common a fate for so many cars that no one had the funds to repair, when the mid 1970s had so many muscle cars dirt cheap during the OPEC oil crisis
"Mary", aged 25, from Burma, and "Kieri" aged 35, from Ceylon, helping to clear up the bombed sites in blitzed Hamburg, Germany, November 1945.
strangely enough, I have a link tag for Elephants.
Barnfind of the day is the previously unknown 7th 1937 Chrysler Imperial 2-door convertible rumble seat that collectors and registries were unaware of
quite a complex instrument panel design, and the strangest oil pressure gauge I've ever seen! Sizaire Freres 4RI
Sizaire Freres was a French company made by two brothers and producing cars from 1920-29
https://www.facebook.com/groups/197491484165115/permalink/1513525245895059
the craftsmanship and design of wood toy train sets impresses me, these are made by a maried couple, Lane and Emily in Washington!
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
the P 47 Rae caught my attention for it's ASTONISHING billboard, and mission symbols, but then... I see it's pilot had the same name as my maternal grandfather, H Shook! (this post motivated by all the wonderful readers who boosted my spirits today and got me posting instead of glumly applying to jobs)
B 25 Sunday Punch, has quite to cool paintjob around the nose guns! And a cool story! (this post motivated by all the wonderful readers who boosted my spirits today and got me posting instead of glumly applying to jobs)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/9529957@N06/5955799013
-A powerful or devastating blow, especially: a knockout punch
-Something capable of delivering a powerful or devastating blow to the opposition; saving his "Sunday punch" for the end of the campaign.
In Oak Ridge, Tennessee, work on the atomic bomb continued when Frances Smith Gates, editor of The Oak Ridge Journal, first used the phrase "Sunday Punch" on Sept. 14, 1944:
Immediately following the dedication ceremony, Sunday Punch was ready for war and sent to the China-Burma-India theatre as a member of the “Earthquakers” medium bomber unit.