14 generations of Burt's ancestors to get to Robert, 1503-1547 and 16 generations of my ancestors to get to Robert, 1503-1547
Saturday, February 22, 2025
Whoa.... I'm still working on my family tree... and just found how I'm related to Burt Munro!
Don Yenko put the order into GM for the first 100 COPO Stingers years before the Camaro made Yenko upgraded muscle cars... and the Stingers are going to be the focus of this years (November 2025) MCACN!
rewatching the 2017 Scartlett Johansen movie Ghost In The Shell... and there's a couple cool cars in it, her character's partner's car is a Lotus type 82. Key point of info? Hollywood buys a lot of "salvage title" cars cheap to destroy on screen
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The movie producers relied on Ash Thorp and Maciej Kuciara to augment the Lotus Esprit Type 82 for Batou. They looked great on screen but the cars were meant to be cheap and disposable.
in Montana making hay in an unusual way, with unusual vehicles, and getting help from Amish guys from Pennsylvania (skip the 1st 40 seconds)
I believe the narrator said this is known as a hay stack type storage, and that 3 storey tall gadget is a known as a beaver slide. The rake on it is moved by the winch or motor of this green Chevy that seems to be a WW2 military truck similar to the Dodge Power Wagon
because the field is soft due to high groundwater or recent rain, they use these front wheel drive (with chains on the tires) car frame looking home made scooper/tractors to gather the hay and push it sliding across the ground to the beaver slide / lift
the little orange tractor pulling the hay rake is the same as my grand dad's early 50s Allis Chalmers Model B https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2018/01/does-anyone-recognize-what-manufacturer.html
the most fun car photo write up I've seen in a long time: Our Lady of Perpetual Downforce
Friday, February 21, 2025
A rail that broke because of a weld failure led to the Oct. 2023 derailment of a BNSF coal train at a bridge over Interstate 25 near Pueblo, Colo., leading to the death of a truck driver, according to the NTSB report
NTSB analysis determined the rail broke as the train passed, and that the break occurred at the site of a thermite weld completed less than five months earlier, with the break beginning at the base and moving upward. Measurement of the rail section showed a difference in profile that, under BNSF rules, should have required a compromise kit to address the mismatched weld configuration; this would have prevented weld flash that pooled under the base of the rail. The report says the welder “likely did not use one of these kits,” leading to the accumulation of weld flash that concentrated stress and led to the cracking.
The derailment and fatality caused an estimated $15.6 million in damage. It led to the full closure of I-25 for three days
Frozen in place for weeks on White Bear Lake, a half-submerged 2008 Buick Lucerne with inches of snow on top is stuck like a goose mid-dive in the pressure ridge it fell through
The Buick’s owner, a 41-year-old man who lives nearby, has just a few days left on a 30-day deadline to remove the vehicle or he will face fines up to five times the cost it takes to remove it from the lake. The owner of the car told deputies that, as water was coming through the floorboards, he was able to escape the vehicle through a window and walk to safety, according to a police report.
44 years ago, George Romero made a movie about a travelling troupe of entertainers who engage in medieval jousts while riding motorcycles instead of horses... starring Ed Harris in a very early role
young people are so lucky in regards to movies... the movies in the 60s, 70s, and 80s mostly sucked.
Now? There are a couple good movies and a couple good series getting released on some streaming service every month, and the last two decades saw an incredible amount of great series and movies made, and available on streaming services
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