Thursday, August 27, 2026
London, Ontario, 1965. ESSO sponsored the 980 AM radio station CFPL 'the first station in North America to list The Beatles at Number One on a radio sales chart when "She Loves You" went to their top spot on December 1963.'
Interesting Greenvrier customized for remote "on the scene" broadcasts
thank you Steve!
Wednesday, August 26, 2026
so... you can easily create an “adversarial noise” pattern that will make a license plate difficult for AI to recognize while still appearing normal to people.
and Florida instantly made it illegal to prevent Flock cameras from reading your license plate
Florida law explicitly prohibits covering, obscuring, or interfering with the legibility, visibility, or detectability of a license plate number or validation sticker, as well as interfering with the ability to record the plate details via electronic recording devices or cameras
Or get a wrap for your whole car, that looks like a 1000 license plates?
In 1950, Allen Hawke left his career at Ford Motor Company, purchased a factory from Ford on the way out the door, and set up shop in Clarkston, Michigan, about 40 miles northwest of Detroit. Three years later, the first Pony Cycles rolled out of the Hawk Tool & Engineering factory.
Hawk Tool & Engineering first sold Pony Cycles directly and through bicycle shops. As production smoothed and gained speed, it struck a deal with Montgomery Ward to make the scooter available through its catalog. This decision branded the scooters as Montgomery Ward models—Special, Deluxe, and Supreme—and started increasing both awareness and demand significantly.
https://www.hagerty.com/media/automotive-history/the-pony-cycles-short-lived-success-and-lasting-legacy
1965 Sunbeam Tiger was 2,500lbs, powered by a 260 cu in, 164 hp Ford with a two-barrel carb, a mild cam and 2.88 gears. But it had a lot of potential
Fortunately, the American Hot Rod Association (AHRA) allowed modifications within their XL Production Sports category.
This Tiger ran in the XF/A Foreign Sports class and did quite well.
The factory optional equipment included a 715-cfm Holley four-barrel carb, a solid lifter cam and 3.73 gears.
At the end of 1965 Gordon Chittenden of Glendora California was the AHRA national record holder in XF/A with a 14.35 at 98.46 mph.
Gord did get the car down to 13.52 by the end of '65
and into the twelves in 1966.
Imagine getting insulted and butt hurt when people are concerned over their constitutional rights being violated by illegal mass surveillance. Well that’s exactly what happened to this police chief in Chetek, Wisconsin
“ I ought to do background checks on half the people that make comments “
A guy named Jimmy Balls was spotted walking around Daytona Beach today carrying what appears to be a camera, solar panel and pole.
What if we make our OWN completely fake Flock cameras?
Don’t do anything that ends with you explaining constitutional law to a deputy while wearing handcuffs.
Instead…
BUILD YOUR OWN RIDICULOUS FAKE ONE.
Cardboard camera, PVC pipe, Fake solar panel.
Maybe an old Ring camera duct-taped to a pool noodle.
Then go over to the police dept parking lot area, on the public sidewalk or grassy area between the sidewalk and the fence... and put that fake Flock camera where it will just look into the police dept parking lot, and make one for the parking lot of city hall... and one over by the mayors home, and the councilmembers homes, and etc etc.
Just fake cameras everywhere...
Tuesday, August 25, 2026
just how much of a lead on the cops does a biker need to have, to feel confident enough that they won't get caught while they stop at a gas station to tank up? (Thank you Marc! )
So, this moron just turned 19, stole the bike, and we can only guess he figured (not having actual thoughts about what he was doing has to figure into this idiocy) that he could get away with a stolen dirt bike in East LA
But he did something no one else I've ever heard of, has ever pulled off... he got a friend to drop a gallon of gas off in a park, where he stopped and tried filling the tank on the motorcycle with it... serious, that's some damn cool planning under high stress conditions!
New meaning to Phone A Friend!
New meaning to Phone A Friend!
Monday, August 24, 2026
In 2004, Mark Miller and Ryan Arciero took refueling to another level. They fueled theirTrophyTruck ON THE MOVE at about 60 mph, with a specially built refueling boom from their chase truck. They only did it once, but it worked, no stop, better track position, and they went on to win the TrophyTruck class.
a Bill Frick Cadillac Special, in the spectator parking lot at the 1963 Sebring 12 Hr. race.
In 1955 Bill decided to build his own cars with his name on them and so shipped a Studillac chassis to Vignale carrozzaria in Italy to be styled and bodied.
In 1956 the new exotic prototype was delivered and soon appeared on the cover of Sports Car Illustrated
Sunday, August 23, 2026
interesting custom '37 Plymouth built by Mike Bowe
there are two toy sewing machines, A rotary dial toy telephone, A railroad spike, A meat grinder, An antique clothes iron, A vintage hair dryer, Two horse saddles, Rebar, An Electrolux vacuum cleaner, A Singer sewing machine, Scissors, and Two pipe wrenches
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