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...

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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

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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

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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

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good idea

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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 

Friday, March 21, 2025

In the aftermath of World War II, there was a plan to repurpose surplus assault gliders as a temporary housing

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asking for a friend

 

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just loving Stephen's art!


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like so many military vets, this one either gained or maintained a sense of humor despite the circumstances that resulted in the Purple Heart

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Vietnam




the 70s

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Retired Amtrak conductor Brad Swartzwelter is making headlines for his proposal to use trains to reduce commercial vehicle crashes and congestion along the I-70 mountain corridor in Colorado.


The I-70 mountain corridor presents a number of risks for truckers — severe winter weather conditions, steep grades, brake failure risk, and hazards like rockfalls, fires, and floods. I-70 in Colorado is frequently closed for crashes, many of them involving commercial vehicles.

Trains would use an existing Union Pacific rail line to carry trucks on a nine hour trip through Colorado, taking loads of commercial vehicles up and over the Rocky Mountains as an alternative to taking I-70.

system would involve driving semi trucks onto flatbed rail cars at the onset of the train journey. The truck drivers would then be free to choose to enjoy the trip in a train sleeper car, potentially helping them to maximize their allowable driving time.

Swartzwelter says that the concept is already in use in European countries, with a system in Austria acting as “the model for this whole thing.”

Since 2015, Nissan has issued three safety recalls for the 2013-2018 Altima hood latch, after finding, "...the hood could unexpectedly open while driving, increasing the risk of a vehicle crash."

The 2015 Altima has a five-star safety rating with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. 

It also has 891 consumer complaints, 53 mention problems with the hood latch, and some of those complaints were made after the recall fix.

A fire at an electrical substation knocked out power to Heathrow Airport for most of Friday, forcing Europe’s busiest hub, and the world's fifth-busiest airport, to shut down for roughly 18 hours




just before midnight on Thursday at a substation about 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) from the airport and took firefighters around seven hours to bring under control.

Residents in west London described hearing a large explosion, followed by a fireball and clouds of smoke, when the blaze ripped through the substation.


The airport had been due to handle 1,351 flights on Friday

The closure not only caused misery for travelers but provoked anger from airlines, which questioned how such crucial infrastructure could fail.

The industry is now facing the prospect of a financial hit costing tens of millions of pounds, and a likely fight over who should pay.

"You would think they would have significant back-up power," one top executive from a European airline told Reuters.

Heathrow's rep said back-up systems and procedures had worked as they should.

Prices at hotels around Heathrow jumped, with booking sites offering rooms for 500 pounds ($645), roughly five times the normal price levels.

Philip Ingram, a former intelligence officer in the British military, said Heathrow's inability to keep operating exposed vulnerability in Britain's critical national infrastructure.

"It is a wake-up call," he told Reuters. "There is no way that Heathrow should be taken out completely because of a failure in one power substation."

Willie Walsh, the head of the global airlines body IATA and a former head of British Airways, said Heathrow had once again let passengers down.

Heathrow said it had diesel generators and uninterruptible power supplies in place to land aircraft and evacuate passengers safely. Those systems all operated as expected. But with the airport consuming as much energy as a small city, it said it could not run all its operations safely on back-up systems.


Thursday, March 20, 2025

Space Patrol lead actor Ed Kemmer's 1950s series spawned more than 1000 episodes and introduced a generation of Saturday morning TV viewers (and often their parents) to the wonders of science fiction.


The show also inspired a NASA engineer who when meeting Kemmer, told him that the show had ignited his passion for space.

Kemmer was a war hero having served as a P 51 Mustang pilot, and was shot down on his 47th mission, in June of 1944, just a few days after D-Day, and was imprisoned at Stalag Luft 3 and spent 11 months as a POW. He briefly escaped from the camp for two weeks before being recaptured when rhe Russians got close in January, 1945 and they were marched out to a camp near Nuremberg. 

A few weeks later General Patton got too close and they were marched out again and headed for Moosberg. He escaped on that march hoping to reach Switzerland .... Two weeks later he was recaptured and sent to the camp at Moosberg. Only there a few days .... Liberated by Patton's tanks on April 29th.

The camp was the same one from which a breakout occurred that was the inspiration for the Steve McQueen film The Great Escape (1963)

After Space Patrol, Kemmer was a guest star in various prime-time television series, including the classic Twilight Zone episode "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet", in which former space hero Kemmer co-starred with future space hero William Shatner.

He also had roles in episodes of  Perry Mason, Maverick, Gunsmoke, Rawhide, All My Children, and As the World Turns and acted out the role of "Prince Phillip" in live action footage that was given to the animators to study for Disney's Sleeping Beauty (1959).

HA! How quickly the worm turns


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80 Teslas damaged at Hamilton dealership near Lime Ridge Mall on Wednesday, are the largest car vandalism reported in Canada against the U.S. company

tires were punctured, the cars were keyed

a young Sparta Tennessee teen couple disappeared in 2000 when their car missed a corner, went into a river and they died... their car (98 Grand Am) and remains were finally located in 2021, when YouTube diver Jeremy Beau Sides discovered their car

There was no guard rail when the teens went off the road