https://hpj.com/2026/07/06/jcb-hydromax-keeps-pushing-ahead-for-speed-record/
Tuesday, July 14, 2026
so the VP of the USA was getting a police escort through the Cotswolds of England.... when a tractor was using the road. Caleb... from Clarkson's Farm
The viral story from The Times involves Clarkson's Farm star Kaleb Cooper telling US Vice President JD Vance's security detail to "**** off".
The incident occurred in the Cotswolds when Vance's large cavalcade of SUVs and police escorts stopped Kaleb while he was rushing to load wheat before the rain.
The incident occurred in the Cotswolds when Vance's large cavalcade of SUVs and police escorts stopped Kaleb while he was rushing to load wheat before the rain.
Jeremy Clarkson detailed the altercation in his column for The Times, describing how Cooper's tractor was halted by the security convoy. Rather than complying with the disruption, Kaleb ignored the blockade to get his load into the shed
“He arrived in a cavalcade of 27 massive black American SUVs and this was escorted by a shoal of British police remoras on motorcycles whose job was to shoo everyone out of the way. One of the people who they ordered to pull over was Kaleb Cooper, my tractor driver, but it was starting to rain and he urgently needed to get his load of wheat into the shed, so he invited his tormentor to eff off. And carried on regardless.”
“He arrived in a cavalcade of 27 massive black American SUVs and this was escorted by a shoal of British police remoras on motorcycles whose job was to shoo everyone out of the way. One of the people who they ordered to pull over was Kaleb Cooper, my tractor driver, but it was starting to rain and he urgently needed to get his load of wheat into the shed, so he invited his tormentor to eff off. And carried on regardless.”
a third-party inspection of a blown Toyota Tundra engine, the twin-turbo V6 that keeps failing without warning.
Officially, Toyota blames manufacturing debris left inside the oiling passages, which is impossible to verify independently without getting your hands on one.
That’s been a problem since the grenaded engines always get sent back as core exchanges, but someone finally got their hands on a blown V35A-FTS with just 38,000 miles.
Spun main bearings
San Diego PD busted by the city’s police oversight commission, for harassing blacks 4 to 1 instead of whites
Black drivers stopped for low-level traffic violations in San Diego were more than four times as likely as White drivers to be frisked and more than three times as likely to be subjected to force, according to an analysis presented by the city’s police oversight commission, which is recommending broad restrictions on so-called pretext stops.
At a community forum last weekend, the San Diego Commission on Police Practices unveiled four draft policy recommendations aimed at limiting officers’ ability to use minor equipment and administrative violations — such as broken tail lights, expired registration tags or objects hanging from rearview mirrors — as a basis for investigating unrelated suspected crimes.
Commission investigator Ethan Waterman presented a review of SDPD’s 2024 stop data, the most recent available.
According to Waterman, the department reported 103,463 stops in 2024, including about 24,000 traffic stops involving equipment violations and other non-moving infractions.
Within the low-level stop category, the commission identified significant racial disparities.
According to Waterman, the department reported 103,463 stops in 2024, including about 24,000 traffic stops involving equipment violations and other non-moving infractions.
Within the low-level stop category, the commission identified significant racial disparities.
reboot of Rockford Files update
Boreanaz then said how The Rockford Files reboot will retain classic elements from the beloved detective show, ranging from the lead character’s classic car and “that California love,” to Jim Rockford’s diet of “tacos and hot dogs and Oreos.”
the NBC series re-teams Boreanaz with fellow SEAL Team actor Michaela McManus, who’d been cast as Kate, an East Hollywood detective who has a complicated romantic history with Rockford.
Jacki Weaver has also been cast as Karma, Rockford’s trailer park neighbor who’s described as “a tough and outspoken think tank analyst.”
The show follows the recently-paroled Rockford returning to his life as a private investigator “after doing time for a crime he didn’t commit.” The Rockford Files reboot will premiere on NBC in early 2027, and season 1 will consist of 13 episodes.
The midseason show tells you more about NBC’s confidence is the real estate: Thursdays at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT, a slot the network reportedly held the series back specifically to anchor.
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THIS is big brother watching, and too many bullies with badges abusing their access to Flock. Greene County, Georgia, deputy arrested after audit shows she used Flock cameras for personal reasons, sheriff says
the cowards in Georgia won't even state what she did, when she repeatedly accessed Flocks database without authorization, illegally.
It's so bad, they had to arrest her, and fire her.
And they will not let us get upset by learning what cops do with unlimited illegal access to Flock.
Former Greene County Deputy Quinsha Goss is facing charges of violating her oath of office and violating the prohibition on law enforcement retaining license plate data obtained from automated license plate recognition systems.
Authorities say an audit of the system on June 30 found that Goss had accessed the system for personal reasons multiple times over a three-month period.Goss' arrest and firing come just a day after the Georgia Bureau of Investigation arrested five police officers in Albany, Georgia, accusing them of misusing their access to that city's Flock Safety System. All five have also been fired.
In June, the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office charged and fired two of its supervisors for allegedly misusing the county's system.
69 R/T stolen, and abandoned decades ago, in San Bruno California right off San Bruno blvd and Burrows st.
It a community garden center that I saw this 69 Coronet R/T laying there, it was abandoned decades ago right there and they kept it there as they built an art garden.
I finally watched the movie Ferrari with Adam Driver last night...
good movie for the inside look at how he struggled with his wife, hating him for their son's death, and his mistress, wanting THEIR son to get his full attention, and his other mistress, and the cost of keeping all them in mansions, without letting his wife know what that cost them financially
The Ferrari shop, well realized on the set, hell, it's nearly real in the movie
the cars...wow. The sound, incredible, but REALLY LOUD compared to the actors talking. So, yeah, every damn minute of the movie you are lower the volume, and raising the volume
but the cars? I've never seen the 58 Testa Rossa driven around until now.. what a beautiful car!
Mostly the movie is about a month in his life, as he deals with bankruptcy, insolvency, the wife owning 1/2 the company, and mustering the drivers into a team to win the Mille Miglia. Then a crash, blamestorm, etc
Monday, July 13, 2026
Sunday, July 12, 2026
California's high-speed rail officials approved the contract to begin laying tracks along the 119-mile segment under construction in the Central Valley.
Track installation is expected to begin later this year from the Southern Railhead in Kern County, which will serve as the staging and distribution hub for materials.
A group of students from Italy’s University of Pisa built the largest paper airplane with paper and some glue, 23-foot-long and 65-foot wingspan
“In the end we managed to bring back to Italy a world record that had stood for thirteen years,” the team added.
Saturday, July 11, 2026
Friday, July 10, 2026
this 70 Chevelle SS was won as a game prize at the Swift/Kelce wedding
Displaying the car during the wedding reception was reportedly a tribute to where their relationship first captured the public's imagination after Taylor attended her first Kansas City Chiefs game back in 2023. Following that appearance, Travis was famously seen driving the classic Chevrolet with Taylor riding shotgun
Matchbox: The Movie will be a live-action action-comedy on Apple TV+ on October 9, 2026.
the preview isn't likely to get released until after the Hall H panel at Comic Con
Thursday, July 09, 2026
the Duke of Goodwood, has announced something vague about a Goodwood Road Racing Club of America, starting in California. Here is EVERYTHING ( very little ) that they tell us about it, but, it has 3 founding patrons: Sir Jackie Stewart, Mario Andretti and Richard Petty
https://grrcamerica.com/
after signing up (Hey, I have a keen interest in this!) the reply is
Thanks for your interest in becoming a Founding Member of the Goodwood Road Racing Club of America. We’ll keep you updated.
then I kept scrolling, and found
they have a promo video on https://grrcamerica.com/membership-at-goodwood
So it looks like a private screening at Mann's Chinese Theater, or Willow Springs in July 9th, 2027
Three founding patrons: Sir Jackie Stewart, Mario Andretti and Richard Petty — who have each been central figures at Goodwood events for many years — have been chosen as the embodiment of the spirit that the GRRC of America will embrace.
Wednesday, July 08, 2026
A nuclear engineer raised in the big city miles from the nearest farm, rebuilt and modified a superb corral of classic Cub Cadet tractors, and garnered 5.5 million views on YouTube
“The components were rugged, and that’s why they’re still in use today,” Smith describes. “They have a differential transmission that’s equal to an automobile transmission in terms of its size and construction. They’re not built like a lawnmower. As opposed to lawn tractors, Cub Cadets were called garden tractors, and the name tells the true difference.”
“In about 2010, I started buying and restoring tractors. I got on the internet and saw a lot of modified Cub Cadets, and I got really interested in a guy who built a motor grader. By that point, the internet had reached the place where you could get all the DIY needed to learn. I kinda dove in. I’d taken wood and metal shop class in high school, but now I could watch videos of guys cutting metal and welding, and copy what I saw.”
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