Monday, May 12, 2025
A federal judge placed Bollinger Motors into receivership after the startup burned through $148M to make about 40 trucks.
I remember seeing the Bollinger trucks at SEMA, somewhere between 2017 and 2021
https://www.thedrive.com/news/148m-electric-truck-startup-is-going-down-in-flames-fast
that's a lot of roman numerals
Sunday, May 11, 2025
Ursula Andress getting a new Cooper S in August 1966
John Sprinzel Racing Ltd in Bayswater London, next to three brothels, the Stables drinking club and two Members of Parliament.
The brothels closed quite soon after Sprinzel Racing opened and the house of one, which was bought by a stockbroker, still had a cupboard full of whips and chains.
Gulio Ramponi tuned Alfa Romeos with skills learned as race car driver Tazio Nuvolari’s riding mechanic, and Bill Moss roared up and down the Mews in one or other of his ex Prince Bira’s vintage ERA racers.
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one Jakamo?
Cross between a jackass and a moron, according to the internet. I've heard it in context, meaning a goofball, a fun person
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Customs and Border Patrol has either been told to do some hero work, get some headlines, OR, the news never gave them the respect for the job they due until now, BUT, they are STOPPING a lot of stolen cars from leaving the USA lately
Customs officers in Hampton Roads recovered 126 stolen vehicles worth $6.4 million
CBP's Baltimore Field Office intercepted 250 stolen vehicle exports in 2024
CBP's Baltimore Field Office intercepted 250 stolen vehicle exports in 2024
Saturday, May 10, 2025
Impressive car collection in the Lagano garage...
I don't follow Nascar, or the racers, and don't know anything about them until watching the Netflix series Full Speed, but I spotted the car collection in his garage (very impressive) and when looking for images of them to share with you, see this:
In 2013, Logano formed his namesake foundation dedicated to giving people up to 24 years old a second chance in life. To date, it has given more than $2.4 million to a variety of organizations, including those that help sick children, offer safe places for kids from abusive homes, and assist in housing for veterans. Along with hosting annual charity events, the organization makes 10 donations during the 10 weeks of the NASCAR Playoffs, giving grants to nonprofit organizations in each community where the races are held.
https://www.motortrend.com/features/celebrity-drive-nascar-joey-logano
Interesting how being impressed at the young age of 10, by the flight of the Wright brothers, led Roy Chadwick to a career with Avro, and to him designing the Avro Lancaster
As far as aviation was concerned, he was really in at the beginning, enthused by the new technology from the point when the Wright brothers took to the air in December 1903, Chadwick by then just a wide-eyed lad of 10.
At 18 yrs old, he began his association with Avro, he then worked on various designs in the lead-up to WW1 including the Avro 504, a Great War light bomber and trainer. King George VI learned to fly on one of these when he was Duke of York, while the very first QANTAS was an Avro 504K.
At 18 yrs old, he began his association with Avro, he then worked on various designs in the lead-up to WW1 including the Avro 504, a Great War light bomber and trainer. King George VI learned to fly on one of these when he was Duke of York, while the very first QANTAS was an Avro 504K.
When still only 22, Chadwick designed the Avro Pike twin-engine bomber (1915), the first bomber to have internal bomb stowage and a gun turret, and his rapid ascent continued, for in 1918 Chadwick had become Avro’s chief designer, coming up with the first true light aeroplane, the aptly-named Avro Baby.
Two years later he added the world’s largest single-engine bomber.
A variant of the Baby, the Antarctic Baby, was supplied for explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s final expedition to the Antarctic (1921).
https://www.runcornandwidnesworld.co.uk/news/24769599.roy-chadwick-cbe-man-designed-avro-lancaster
https://aviadejavu.ru/Site/Crafts/Craft33252.htm#gallery-2
Friday, May 09, 2025
A father, his two sons, and a retired Ford employee were arrested in Dearborn for running a massive parts theft operation that targeted the automaker's plants.
various news outlets are reporting that multiple warehouse raids in and around the city of Detroit yielded huge stashes of brand-new parts that were allegedly pilfered right off of Ford’s assembly lines.
the thieves’ inventory was pilfered from Ford facilities in Wayne, Dearborn, and Flat Rock over a period of at least two years. Shahin described warehouses in Detroit filled “from the floor to the ceiling” with brand-new Ford parts ranging from body panels (including hoods and bumpers) to replacement parts (such as tail lights). After squirreling the parts away in their local warehouses, the thieves allegedly sold them on eBay using a Detroit-based front business.
last month, Arias-Tovar was arrested when he was pulled over for speeding and no drivers license.. This week, his daughter was arrested for running a red light, and no drivers license. That's odd... wouldn't you think after your dad gets arrested, for bad driving, you'd be really really careful when driving? But that's not the punchline.
their entire family is in the USA illegally, and has been for 15 years.
Arias-Cristobal admitted to being in the U.S. illegally and does not have an application pending with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, according to DHS.
"Mr. Tovar had ample opportunity to seek a legal pathway to citizenship. He chose not to." DHS said.
And the father and daughter are BOTH in the same jail, the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Ga., where her father, Jose Francisco Arias-Tovar, is also being held.
https://nypost.com/2025/05/08/us-news/georgia-dalton-state-college-student-ximena-arias-cristobal-faces-deportation-after-arrest-for-running-red-light/
https://www.foxnews.com/us/dhs-defends-ice-detainment-georgia-college-student-who-violated-traffic-laws-not-ignoring-rule-law.amp
https://www.foxnews.com/us/dhs-defends-ice-detainment-georgia-college-student-who-violated-traffic-laws-not-ignoring-rule-law.amp
I don't wish anyone's life to be utterly changed, instantly, by being returned to their country of citizenship, and origin. My aunt's are from Italy, Taiwan, and Canada. I have friends and co-workers from Cambodia, the Philippines, China, Mexico, etc etc.
I do want people to get into this, or any other country legally, and once in those countries, if they choose to make a new life, to get the legal authorization to stay, with a work visa, a green card, or citizenship through the normal process that at least, the USA has. I don't know if other countries have a process, other than that gold passport that you've probably heard about. https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexledsom/2025/05/08/as-malta-golden-passport-likely-ends-demand-for-golden-visa-rises/
I know that it's been widely publisized for decades that Australia doesn't have a open door, unless you're a scientist, or investor, and that Italy and other European countries are welcoming in Hollywood celebs who spend a crazy amount of money there. And hey, that's cool, anyone with a crazy amount of money is welcome to spend it nearly everywhere around the world. It's called tourism. But the homeless, jobless, poor, are simply not welcome to move into any other country, as most countries are bankrupt. Just ask anyone, the USA is 39 trillion in debt.
It has declared bankruptcy 10 times.
Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay, Chile, Costa Rica, Spain and Russia have declared bankruptcy nine times during the same period.
Germany has suffered from bankruptcy 8 times in two and a half years, thus coming to the forefront of the major economic countries that have been bankrupt, followed by the US 5 times, China and UK 4 times, and Japan twice.
Thursday, May 08, 2025
All states surrounding North Dakota went to an 80-mph speed limit years ago, and now, North Dakota will become the next US state to allow legal speeds of 80 mph ( into effect August 1st) on stretches of multi-lane highway (up from 75)
The North Dakota Legislature turned to South Dakota its southern neighbor for some real-world statistics. South Dakota raised its speed limit on most limited-access highways to 80 mph in 2015. In the years since, there's been no appreciable change in crashes or fatalities.
Minnesota still remains at 70 mph... and that's not likely to change because of the larger population
https://www.motor1.com/news/758889/north-dakota-80-mph-speed-limit/
if you want to read another cool WW2 story
the Autopian.com comes up with some good stuff, consistantly... and today? got me laughing about a smoking jacket and the word "punctum"
Somehow they caught onto this 1971 service manual, and realized the illustrator made the mechanic a guy in a smoking jacket. With a tie.
No one dressed like that has ever reached into the engine bay of a 71 Chevy van
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