Saturday, August 29, 2026

Delaware and Hudson Canal Company railcar #10 "Comet" built in 1882, designed for the company’s famous Gravity Railroad, which transported anthracite coal and passengers over the Moosic Mountains between Carbondale and Honesdale, Pennsylvania


Built in early 1882 along side her sister coach #9 "Eclipse", but the Comet was one of the few "smoking cars".

When service ended in 1899 the car was taken up to its current location by draw horses, becoming a small ski factory for a time, then afterwards, a painters studio


This abandoned 1905 ABC bridge in the Kansas City Stockyards was recently converted into a public trail and double-decker entertainment district


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as part of the National Thirst Eliminator Sweepstakes for Coca-Cola, you would win this 1969 Super Cat Cougar




the 94 Mercury Sable AIV (Aluminum-Intensive Vehicle) was about 400 pounds lighter than a Taurus SHO, with the same power train, and without rust



The AIV Sable went all-in on aluminum, reinventing the unibody. Most of its steel body panels were replaced with aluminum, and many suspension components followed suit.

Multimatic Motorsports (Ford's exclusive racing partner) entered an aluminum-bodied Sable AIV in the 1995 One Lap of America endurance event, and finished first in class (Mid-Price class) and 15th overall, ahead of far more exotic machinery, like the Cobra Mustangs, Corvette ZR-1s, and even RUF Porsches. The win validated the platform’s stiffness, reliability, and real-world performance advantages.

new movie you oughta know about for the fantastic vintage cars... the Maserati, The Brothers, with Anthony Hopkins and Al Pacino - completing the trilogy of the great Italian can maker movies (Lamborghini, Ferrari, Maserati) that I posted about years ago

The film is produced by Andrea Iervolino, who produced Moresco’s Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend, and Micheal Mann’s Ferrari starring Adam Driver and Penélope Cruz. He is also planning one on Bugatti.








you know who deserves a father of the year award? Mark Coletti's dad. He let his son pilot the family Barracuda to a NHRA Eliminator title, defeating the Smothers Brothers '69 Olds to win in F/SA and he got to kiss the trophy girl. Yep, father of the year, because Mark was only 17 yrs old