The smallest armoured train ever built shot down Luftwaffe aircraft over Kent during World War 2. A 1/3rd scale steam locomotive clad in boiler plate, armed with WWI-era Lewis guns and Boys anti-tank rifles, and crewed by just seven soldiers from the Somerset Light Infantry.

originally conceived and built in the 1920s by millionaire racing car drivers Captain Jack Howey and Count Louis Zborowski

Count Louis Zborowski had constructed a railway at Higham Park, his home at Bridge, Kent, and agreed to donate the rolling stock and infrastructure to the project. However, he was killed in a motor racing accident at the Monza Grand Prix on 19 October 1924 before the Romney Marsh site was chosen, and Howey continued the project alone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romney,_Hythe_and_Dymchurch_Railway [2] https://iwmvolunteerlondon.wordpress.com/2020/10/14/a-little-about-a-little-armoured-train-the-romney-hythe-and-dymchurch-railway-1940

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there once was a lot more variety of interesting stuff on the railroads...

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=4718418465059914&set=gm.955744086825492&idorvanity=751896323876937

see this facebook page for ALL the variety! https://www.facebook.com/groups/751896323876937

Van Nuys cruise night

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=4485636175055327&set=gm.10164097799509331&idorvanity=2348509330

quite a curious roadside tourist cabin

in British Columbia, and showed a 1956 or 1957 Rambler Super sedan parked with the trunk open. It looks like cardboard was placed over the luggage to protect it from the dust. It appears like it had a New Jersey license plate that was used beginning in 1959, so they were a long way from home.

The small, log cabin type structures were likely a roadside motel, and may have been on the Alaska Highway.

https://www.curbsideclassic.com/vintage-snapshots-and-photography/ready-for-the-road-vintage-photos-of-1950s-1970s-travelers-and-their-cars/

Currently happening at World Ford/ Group 1 Ford in Pensacola. Thinking maybe having a Ram pull up with your product on a trailer and that sign attached to it might mean you wanna escalate his warranty claims

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=39016462331301206&set=a.101835249857399

1938, when traffic was so slow that they installed a gas station in the middle of the road

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=4699377383629265&set=gm.1811912826653212&idorvanity=319578812553295

photographer David Freund went on a mission to document the gas stations from '78 to '81, he called the photo series Gas Stop

https://www.davidfreundphotography.com/gas-station

might be the coolest thing I've seen all week

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=27505841602424370&set=gm.1814188243092337&idorvanity=319578812553295

a neighborhood where all the street names are Harry Potter themed in Killeen Tx

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=28445209455168858&set=pcb.2669292366879584

I wonder, was this a mobile recap rig?

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=27884561584549652&set=gm.1844107550198396&idorvanity=226675368608297

racing Maverick!

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=27896794156659728&set=gm.1844952006780617&idorvanity=226675368608297

good use for a worn out tire

video at https://www.facebook.com/reel/1552632066266928

clever stuff is shared on facebook, innovative ways of doing things

https://www.facebook.com/groups/698432885431161/

huh... advice from someone that led an interesting life

Refueling the Penske Sunoco Camaro at Watkins Glen, Aug '69. Hard to believe that they were ok with splashing a gallon over the trunk and his own shoes (that's going to ITCH!)

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10227872830286434&set=gm.3219052168288011&idorvanity=527146584145263

I don't remember the last time I saw anyone stupid enough to drive without a registration sticker on a new license plate

well done license plate

Was the Grand Wagoneer so ugly, that Toyota felt the need to copy it? Why the hell did they make a "Grand Highlander?

That's just stupid

I saw this in traffic the other day, and find it very unusual for someone to cover all the country and region info... this one is from Mexico, and they have a decal that sticks to the inside of the back window, that's the same as the plate.

What the possible POINT of covering the words? They are duplicated on the window sticker... but Flock cameras don't get those, is my guess

I felt bad for this guy, whose vehicle must have died at the intersection... and he seems to be waiting for a tow truck to arrive, but... who stands outside their car to do that... at an intersection?

Since his grill is popped out, maybe he ran into something?

parked in an Iowa barn in the mid 60s and forgoitten

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527146584145263/permalink/3218036308389597

This, oddly, was a thing from 2018, and for some reason, these photos popped up yesterday, here's the post from then https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2018/01/1937-bmw-328-veritas-barnfind-is-on.html

I'm watching the new Grand Tour series on Amazon Prime, with the new guys, and it's good. They've done some interesting new things, and shown a few things that I'd never heard of... like, cutting cars in half in Kaula Lumpur for tax purposes, making their parts affordable

They went to Bombay Beach, on the East side of the Salton Sea, opposite Salton City... and that's the Bombay Beach drive in... lol. 

but when they went to Kuala Lumpur, and needed to get an alternator, and found that cutting junk yard cars in half, is a thing, to avoid taxes

 Malaysia imposes exceptionally high import and excise duties on foreign vehicles (often ranging from 65% to 105% or more) to protect its national automotive brands like Proton and Perodua.

A 40k Mini, costs 120k there... for example

To bypass these staggering whole-car taxes, auto-recyclers and importers in Japan, Singapore, and Australia slice cars in half before shipping them

one of the places they stop into while in Kuala Lumpur is the gas station that Larry Chen featured in one of his You Tube videos about 6 months ago, the Initial D-themed café and car culture destination... that was a surprise to me that I recognized the place! 

tank landing craft, were built in Wisconsin

ever heard of the used car lot engine trick to fix compression and oil pressure? Bon Ami down the carb and an oil change

there are the before (in white) and after (in red)

https://www.instagram.com/motogzziclassics/

the instagram guy on camera says it's a trick that WW2 aircraft mechanics did to to airplane engines to keep them going a little longer

wood refrigerator railcars and other cargo railcars were used as sacrificial breakwaters when launching ships from the Manitouc shipyards to prevent the buildings on the next pier from being destroyed by the wave

see the video from minute 53 to 53:25 at https://youtu.be/AebhrzKz0d8

the ships were built for the C and O railroad who probably donated old, damaged, obsolete, or in need of repair railcars, knowing they'd be scrapped afterward

How to avoid the Chicago railyards... put the trains on ferrys and take them across the lake, and the SS Badger is the last of the coal fired steam engine powered ships that were built to do that, which makes it part of US Highway 10, and M-90, and a National Historic Landmark (thank you Brad!)

The trains hauled cargo, like Wisconsin dairy, beer, and meat, (Remember, Green Bay Packers were named for the meat packers!) lumber, paper, tractors and Nash cars across the lake, and in the other direction, Michigan produce, chemicals, salt, car parts, and vehicles