Tuesday, March 10, 2026
Monday, March 09, 2026
New rules heavily restrict the types of bikes Caltrain users can bring on board, and baby seats are now no longer allowed
Caltrain will start banning cargo bikes and any bike that doesn't conform to the railroad's required dimensions.
"Caltrain’s bike cars are designed to carry 36 bikes safely and efficiently (four bikes per rack)," states the Caltrain bike rules page. "Oversized bikes are not allowed onboard to maximize the number of riders with bikes on board."
https://sf.streetsblog.org/2026/03/04/as-bike-cars-overflow-caltrain-bans-large-bikes-and-panniers
interesting situation, 3 Riverside Police Department officers were given 100% VA disability, went to work for the police dept, and got diabled plates on their cars....
The Riverside Police Department is planning to fire three officers because they have disabled veteran license plates on their personal cars.
The officers have filed a discrimination lawsuit against the department.
The three officers are military veterans, all with a 100% disability rating from the VA.
The department is alleging they made false claims about their physical limitations to get those plates.
Their attorney says that's not true.
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seen on tonight's walk
300ZX Turbo 50th Anniversary
I've seen a lot of cars that can't move under their own power, but none owned by anyone stupid enough to let the cops see the proof that they were towed to where they are
Sunday, March 08, 2026
Hurst SS Cuda with it's original engine pulled out of the widow's garage and brought to the Barnfind section of the MCACN
It’s 1 of only 70 Super Stock BO29 Hemi Barracudas modified by Hurst Performance for competition in the 1968 season.
Californian George Wejbe bought it new in Santa Fe Springs and campaigned it in IHRA events.
George retired the car in 1972 and it was recently acquired from his widow.
Remarkably, it still retains its original 426 race-spec Hemi engine and heavy-duty Torqueflite transmission, and is well documented with its original sales and finance papers, and factory-to-dealer bulletin detailing the race modifications and warranty exclusions.
this MCACN barnfind '73 Citroën SM was extensively modified by prior owner
Bob Diemert was a self-educated engineer known in the aviation world for his meticulous restorations of a Hawker Hurricane fighter (one of only 5 in existence!) and two Japanese Zero fighters.
He applied his aviation know-how and ingenuity to this SM, in some cases to increase its performance and in others, for reasons unknown.
Barnfind Jag... but what will it cost the next owner to make it safely roadworthy? The XK140 only has 15,570 miles on its odometer, was found in a barn in Virginia several years ago. Its 2nd owner last had it on the road in 1967.
The 3rd owner is a Jag restorer who obviously figured out it's now financially feasible to restore it, so he's looking to sell it for 50k to a potentially future customer to offload the expense, and hopefully onboard a new rich customer https://www.hemmings.com/stories/will-you-be-the-one-to-take-on-this-barn-find-1955-jaguar-xk140
Saturday, March 07, 2026
there's a really well done comic about the Duckberg F1 fan club, free online...
I can see why they made it narrow, and vertically scrolling online, but I do not like that since so many morons can't hold a cell phone horizontally for a panoramic photo, that the online comic gets a vertical treatment that's more annoying to look at than a horizontal one
I'm not sure who this online comic is targetting demographically either, do kids enjoy Mickey and a "friendly" Donald? Mad as hell Donald was always so much more fun to watch in cartoons.
Compliments to Kisai Entertainment for the visually appealing art!
a moment to ponder the legal problem truckers are stuck with, the states don't allow pistols for self defense (a great idea for overnighting in truck stops) to cross state lines. So, why is a state license plate 50 state compatible, but not the 2nd amendment?
Why does a driver’s license work nationwide…
…but a constitutional right stops at state borders?
You can legally drive across all 50 states with the same license.
But if you legally own a firearm and cross the wrong state line, you can suddenly become a criminal overnight.
Senator Mike Lee (R, Utah) has introduced a bill that would allow Americans who can legally own firearms to carry across state lines without needing permission from each individual state.
I posted about this about 18 years ago... a trucker was unable to carry his pistol in his truck for self defense, and was murdered, sometime around 2009. It's in the archives, and normally I find the link and include it in the post, but I don't have time to do that right now
remember that Montana license plate scheme to get out of paying state sales taxes? Now Marin County (and those very rich wine country people) are under scrutiny. I've been posting about this since 2017
California regulators are reviewing every recent car sale in Montana as they crack down on a tax-evading scheme called the “Montana Loophole” where drivers dodge Golden State levies by purchasing a vehicle in a place with no statewide sales tax.
The California Department of Tax and Fee Administration and Department of Motor Vehicles said in a news release Friday that since 2023, they’ve found hundreds of California-based dealerships involved in more than 2,500 sales to customers claiming they’re Montana drivers. Many of the sales involve luxury or exotic cars, and regulators said it cost the state more than $10 million in lost revenue.
Investigators listed the cities in California with the most suspicious sales at dealerships. Beverly Hills has the highest with 416, and in the Bay Area, Mill Valley appeared among the top 10. There are only a couple of car dealerships in Mill Valley, and both are for luxury brands: Ferrari and Porsche. Regulators found that Mill Valley is connected to 99 suspicious sales.
On Friday, the California Department of Justice announced charges against 14 people it alleges were using the loophole to cheat the state out of $20 million in luxury vehicles purchases.
The tax loophole takes advantage of states like Montana that don’t have statewide sales tax. Visitors from other states purchase and register a car there to save money, sometimes by setting up a limited liability company. The pricer the purchase, the more the loophole can save the tax dodger.
Bloomberg found that Montana has more than double the national average vehicle-to-driver ratio.
Since 2023, the California DMV investigators said they found 601 vehicles that were fraudulently registered, recovering $2.3 million in registration and taxes.
'55 Arnolt-Bristol
'American' car devised by Chicago industrialist Stanley H. "Wacky" Arnolt, in actuality a Bristol chassis shipped from the UK to Italy for Bertone bodywork designed by Franco Scaglione. Most of the approximately 142 built were then shipped to and sold in the US.
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