It took 25 % of the fuel market in the midwest.. it was made from corn, it was basically white lightning.
John D Rockefeller, founder and head of the Standard Oil Company didn't appreciate Ford cutting into his oil profits, and started funding the ammendment we know as Prohibition.
Because if the constitutional ammendment cut off all alcohol production, all of Fords ethanol alcohol automotive fuel would be wiped out of business, and Standard Oil would increase profits immediately by 25% or more (due to increased growth in car sales) .
For continued to make Ethanol compatible vehicles for 12 of the 13 years of prohibition, and then he gave up.
Right after prohibition was over President Teddy Roosevelt broke up the Standard Oil company due to its monopoly of the energy market and iunterference in Government.
The two parts recombined 88 years later, and now Exxon Mobil have bigger profits than any other company, corporation, or business in the world... consecutively, year after year.
Source, the documentary "Fuel" by Josh Tickell
Tuesday, July 06, 2010
It was said best by the "Grenade Inspector" who uttered "God Damn Trees!"
Before and afters rarely make you so happy, just look at the next couple photos to see how awesome this was made after that tree jumped in front of the hot rodAbove photo from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=486972 below photos I took at the LA Roadster show
Get an eyeful of this Bedford! (I've just learned it's not on the island of Malta, but the next close island, Gozo)
Via: http://ohmygoditsthefunkyshit.tumblr.com/
Commentary on Jalopnik has most people noticing it is Maltese, and for more oddball custom buses in the same "Almost" american 50's style: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/01/isolation-in-remote-islands-keeps-old.html and the license plate matches a Maltese, confirming the commentors who instantly recognized that it was related to the Maltese buses,
For a separate look at the buses and small trucks that look odd to me, use Google Chrome (love it) to translate for you and read
http://www.zlomnik.pl/index.php/2010/07/10/na-malcie-autobusy-sa-wieczne
Steve found a photo of this, and it's been garaged a while
There was no info with this image, but it's amazingly large. Anyone know what it is? M Christian Nailed it!
From http://www.sportschrono.com/post/741519021But for a full gallery, and videos: http://www.joeld.net/snowcruiser/snowpics.html
Looks like a land train, with local fire department paint and letters, and here's why... It's the 1939 Sno Cruiser! Jo Schmo pointed me in the right direction https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqCP1hN__8BrcC-rh_RUnw-HNARexDIAPQQ29-cPU1RJ0WRfOdW4pous6nob_g4uJpc74GCyJxVL1eXWITidEyuH2EjY-N_UzEjwQQBuOKTE9bLgC6stdRgzXRlTd7nSQMfxHV/s1600-h/snow-cruiser.jpg
I posted a cool color photo of it in December http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/12/arctic-or-antarctic-explorers.html possibly from a post by M Christian a year earlier, an awesome post! http://meinekleinefabrik.blogspot.com/2008/12/for-sale-by-owner.html
If you had to paint a massive land yacht Mopar (69 Chrysler 300), you wouldn't do this to it would you? Mint and chocolate with lace paint?
Points for trying, points removed for ugly results
cool old motorbikes at El Cajon for the season opener car cruise
Immediate attention grabber in John Deere colors
On the far side of the red bike is a matching black, and they have pre-1970 yellow on black license plates
the above repair kit is on the below bike
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