Tuesday, March 25, 2025

400 or best offer on Ebay right now, 1976 Good Year Motor Sports Club Membership Kit-Autographs, Magazines, Photos seven of the twenty

Is this the coolest thing you've seen today or what? And unlike the Dan Gurney Eagle club, I've never heard of this before


 autographs I recognize are Bobby Allison and Bobby Unser 








four companies that operate speed-cameras in Georgia have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to state legislators.

Macon-Bibb County and the camera companies brought in $11.5 million from your school zone speed camera tickets since 2022. 

A new provision in Ohio's proposed transportation budget would prohibit townships and counties from using speed cameras.

Ohio lawmakers want to change how traffic camera laws are enforced across Ohio.

 A two-year, $11 billion transportation budget passed by the Ohio State House aims to eliminate handheld traffic cameras in townships.

 If the budget is signed into law by the Ohio governor, places like Weathersfield, Liberty, and Vienna will no longer be permitted to use them for issuing tickets, a change that they believe will significantly strain police departments.

Jeff Bridges movie, in 1984, was Starman, and the choice of the feature car, was a Mustang Cobra II

 https://bamfstyle.com/2024/12/04/starman-bridges/

still loving this 72 Mach 1, from the same wonderful goofballs that made Scraptona. They found this Mach 1 had been stuck in a junkyard for 35 years


Monday, March 24, 2025

Saul Leiter, New York City streets in color






Saul Leiter took photos every day for 60 years in New York’s East Village, capturing daily life in the neighborhood where he lived for his entire adult life. Leiter was a postwar pioneer in color photography, and when he died, in 2013, he left behind at least 40,000 color slides, 15,000 black-and-white prints, and 40,000 black-and-white negatives

the website www.allcarindex.com has info on 14,647 brands of cars...

 https://www.allcarindex.com/

the last time this car was on the road was 1973




As of March 2025, thirteen of London’s historic green cabmen’s shelters remain. These shelters, originally established between 1875 and 1950 to provide cab drivers with a place to rest and refresh

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=658955643341920&set=a.254774773760011

Sunday, March 23, 2025

in 1979 a dad purchased this car for his 14 yr old son, from a towing yard, for 900.00. '71 Mach 1, w/ 351


'75 Nickey Nova with an LS6, 3.73 gears and a Turbo 400. Super Chevy took the former Deuce to Irwindale and ran a best of 13.70 @ 98.4 MPH on street tires

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1074556794701063&set=a.556433073180107

A-26 is getting closer to wrapping up a restoration. It was made at the end of WW2, then put into storage and didn't get flown until years later when Standard Oil bought it for company VIPs



https://www.fox13now.com/news/uniquely-utah/labor-of-love-aims-to-return-historic-wwii-aircraft-to-skies-over-utah#google_vignette

they're still hoping for donations though to fuel it up, paint it, etc https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-bobs-mission-to-revive-a-ww2-warbird

Douglas AD-4 Skyraider (thanks George!)

https://vintageaviationnews.com/warbirds-news/military-aviation-museums-skyraider-to-join-eaa-airventures-korea-75th-commemoration.html

a nuke MM bubblehead has a classic 60s/70s restoration company of Broncos, Mustangs, Blazers, Scouts and Ford trucks! (thanks Marc!)

 



Heather Broberg sitting in her 29 Model A

 https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=808426094643181&set=a.553464703472656

good idea

https://www.facebook.com/MillerForTexas/posts/pfbid02BYzuzFyKGJmpPh3rMibcYWC75ckHXTM2AQwEWR7yP5CYATjy6ZjU8qxcMqhrDmfwl

thanks to Volksrob! Here's the story of Peter Mounsey, 96, with his '49 Velocette, the he hit 97 mph with! His goal was one mpg per year of age!


An Australian yachting legend who sailed around the world with his wife in the 1950s




Six years ago on Lake Gairdner, Lionel West flipped the original Bronze Aussie at over 250mph. Now it's rebuilt and looking to break 300 mph, but only achieved 291

 

West set a new Australian record (282mph) for his class of vehicle and reached a top speed of 291mph.

Saturday, March 22, 2025

hailing a cab

 https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2025/03/hailing-that-cab.html

A group of U.S. Marines rescued a wounded civilian stranded without food and water in the middle of the California desert, waving a green flag from a boulder below, last month





The crew spotted a stranded off-road motorcyclist and quickly realized a swift intervention was needed. They landed their helicopter 500 meters from the individual’s location.

Once landed, Kerr and Gunnery Sgt. Theodore Young, the lead crew chief, walked up the hillside toward the injured individual to assess the situation.

“He had been out there for almost two days, completely out of water and food,” said Young. “When we reached him, he was conscious but clearly exhausted and in pain. He told us he had been hoping someone would see him before it was too late.”

The man had broken his leg after flipping his motorcycle on an incline and as a result, he was unable to move himself to safety. 

 The Marines stabilized the man’s injuries, loaded him into their King Stallion and flew him to the MCAS Yuma, Arizona, where  the station’s Yuma Fire Department transported him to the Yuma Regional Medical Center. The man is expected to make a full recovery, according to the release.

the collector car market continues to slump, and sellers have finally lowered their expectations


the Median Sale Price has continued its 23-month losing streak.

'02 Saleen Mustang that hit everything but the lottery!


 

It got a new rear end housing
 2 new rear tires
 Both front fenders
 Passenger door
 New Cobro hood
 New 2004 cobro cloth top 
 New header panel
 New headlights 
New incorrect but still OEM Saleen graphics
and a paint job from Affordable Auto Painting and Body Repair



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road side attractions are getting more eye catching! Here's a helo on a fuel station in Europe, that rotates the blades if you put change in the machine! (Thank you Shas!) Orlen is Polish company, heli is Mi-2 designed by Mikhail Mil built on license in Poland and this gas station is in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia.

 



the BYD Seagull is one specific model that the CEO of Ford has admitted he’s worried about from a competitive standpoint. It sells for $9,700 in China, and is already slated to be sold in Europe, and a cheaper variant is set to launch in the UK this year, too.

BYD is already enjoying success in the UK, with 62 dealers currently operating and 120 expected to be up and running by the end of 2025. 

 According to Autocar, the Seagull – which will be called the Dolphin Surf in Europe and the UK – will come equipped with more features and safety equipment in those parts of the world, but it will still be one of the cheapest EVs one can buy when it arrives there. BYD executive vice-president Stella Li said that while the Dolphin Surf might “not be the cheapest” EV one can buy in those markets, it will “be the best value,” with a rumored price tag of less than $25,937