https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/dtbs8j/called_death_way_one_of_the_most_dangerous_roads
Just A Car Guy
Cool things with wheels since 2006
Friday, February 07, 2025
the Long Island Motor Parkway (also known as the Vanderbilt Parkway). 1908
scoria bricks, a material they made roads with, in York England, that I've never heard of until now! They weren't a success because they were found to wear unevenly and become slippery in wet conditions
In the mid-19th century, Teesside ironmasters faced the challenge of disposing of molten slag waste from blast furnaces, and used an ingenious method invented by Joseph Woodward in 1869 to transform this waste into durable, silvery-blue bricks.
At first, it was tipped onto the boggy marshlands around Middlesbrough to raise them up. When these were filled, the ironmasters then ended up paying the Tees Conservancy Commissioners 4d a ton in old money to take the slag away. The Conservancy Commission used it to good purpose, with over 20 miles of riverside walls and the North and South Gares built up on slag, a base still there to this very day.
But not only was this product a waste – it was a waste of money as well . The ironmasters did not want to pay to have their rubbish removed. They wanted to profit from it, to really show that where’s muck, there’s money.
Thursday, February 06, 2025
I'll be damned, I outlasted the Old Motor.com!
I'm not surprised. The original (oldest posts) direction was showing vehicles that a car restorer, David Greenlees, was working on. But he obviously was not someone that had the time to actually work on a daily or weekly website, and quickly opened it to anyone that wanted to submit photos or articles to, and it soon was nothing from David, just freelancers that needed the site for high traffic.
For the most recent pages, there was no original content of any kind, just the " Four Fun Kodachrome Car Image Series" that had been posted 500 times. Yeah, that's slightly interesting but won't keep any audience returning to see what the lastest 4 Kodachromes were, and that is all he posted for the last 2 years (2022 - 2024) and they were simply lifted from https://www.facebook.com/AmericarTheBeautiful
Carcross Desert, (just sand dunes) is about one square mile, and is the closest thing Canada has to a desert
Fed Ex, UPS and large commercial airlines ship horses and other animals as cargo, but the Tex Sutton company and the Kalitta Charters Co use a dedicated aircraft to do so.
Wednesday, February 05, 2025
I spotted another one of those interesting plates, the ones chosen in hopes that they will result in fewer tickets, by being easy to confuse by having a lot of similar looking letters or numbers
Here's two others I came across in the last couple of years that seem to be made in order to get the cops to make a mistake in the paperwork, so the car owner can get the ticket thrown out in a technicality
imagine hearing the sound of brakes slammed on tires that locked up and squeal to a stop, like tv shows or Hollywood movies. Why? That's what I imagine happened when Ford cancelled a contract they'd had with a vehicle transport company for the last 40 years, and 2000 employees of that company are likely to get laid off. From Teamsters Union jobs.
“We expect Ford to address this matter with the seriousness it warrants and provide a detailed explanation for its actions, not only to the affected workers but also to their families and communities who are now burdened with uncertainty and hardship,” the letter reads.
Tuesday, February 04, 2025
Do you remember the 61 Econoline in season 4 of Friends? Monica and Phebe buy a van with a mural painted on the side, of a woman riding a dragon
Phoebe has a copy of Hemmings Motor News when she leaves Monica's apartment to meet with the guy about converting the van. Pretty good attention to detail, considering the typical fan of the show probably wouldn't recognize it.
proof that kids can secretly get their bus drivers infected... I kid you not, the Coventry School District in Summit County Ohio announced that classes were canceled because the bus drivers were sick. All of them.
https://fox8.com/news/local-school-unexpectedly-closes-due-to-illness-bus-driver-shortage/
It's official: Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. has completed its acquisition of Goodyear's off-the-road tire business in an all-cash transaction of approximately $905 million.
Goodyear plans to use the proceeds from the latest transaction to “reduce leverage” and invest in its Goodyear Forward transformation plan and enhancing the focus on our core products and services.