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Saturday, March 08, 2025
I can't even tell if this was a real car, or a photoshop, or an AI image. But it's well designed for good looks
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why didn't a car manufacturer make a model named the M80? It's clever, and a regional dealership network took advantage of the opportunity, and named a 1980 Malibu the M80 and sold about 1900 in North and South Carolina
At some point in the late 1970s, seven of the most powerful Chevrolet dealers in the southeastern sales zone came up with the idea of rolling up a special version of the Malibu in an attempt to make the fourth generation attractive to a new type of clientele and resuscitate the muscle car enthusiasm of the 1960s and 70s.
It was a dealer package, mostly aimed at the NASCAR fans who traveled to Darlington Raceway in South Carolina
Front and rear spoilers were also on the menu – the one at the front was from the El Camino SS – while the car rode on 1981 14-inch steel rally wheels from the 1980 Monte Carlo.
the Sisterhood Rickshaw Rally is 60 women journeying 1000Km across India with the goal of raising £350,000 to support projects in Chennai
Ladies Circle India and Round Table India identified three women and girls' projects for the funds to be donated to, weather-resistant classrooms towards giving skills training to young women to allow them to achieve
Since launching in 2006 to dragonboat across the English Channel in Aug 2007 (gaining a World Record), The Sisterhood has clocked up an incredible number of challenges - the Amazon raft race, Marathon de Sables, Bosphorus swim, Costa Rico Coast to Coast race, Kilamanjaro, Venice Vogalonga, The LA to Vegas Speed Project, Chennai Rickshaw run .. the list goes on. All in aid of various women and children’s charities.
one of the very few trucks that had factory racing stripes, the 65 Dodge D100 CSS HPP (Custom Sports Special High-Performance Package) could be had with a 426 wedge
covered on video at https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2014/02/buy-dodge-if-you-dont-like-smell-of.html
but Boynton's dual quad max wedge 413 was probably faster in a drag race https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-413-dual-quad-max-wedge-dragmaster.html
Mopar Connection Magazine is looking to give a young Mopar enthusiast an opportunity to get their foot in the door into the automotive publishing industry as a 1099 writer
So, since they specified young, it's probably excludes me as I was born in 71.
Maybe you, or someone you know, is looking for a side hustle gig, putting in a couple hours of work a day, making as much as $1,000 a month
The Staff Writer position is a 1099 freelance/subcontractor position and will be paid twice a month per a predetermined scale for each written article. There will be a 90-day trial period for every applicant to evaluate work ethic, determination and commitment to providing superior, reliable news-worthy content for Mopar Connection Magazine audience.
All serious inquires are to email introductory letter and resume to kevin.shaw@shawgroupmedia.com
Before a paint job and starring role in American Graffiti, Falfa’s '55 Chevy starred in Two Lane Blacktop... and now it's getting restored to make it "movie accurate"
The car made its movie debut a long damn time ago, in a movie I haven't seen since the 80s, Two-Lane Blacktop, 2 years before American Graffiti.
In Two-Lane Blacktop, young James Taylor and Dennis Wilson (has any other half famous movie ever had a couple real musical A lister legends ever play non musician characters?) portray a couple of no-name dudes cruising the southwest in search of drag races at the track and along the nation’s roadways.
‘Tallet’s Gym’, one of the Real Steel filming locations, was a fire-station – the former Detroit Fire Department HQ, in the heart of downtown Detroit. Another filming location "Crash Palace" is the old Model T factory in Highland Park that was building Ts in 1910
From 1929 to 1949 it was the fire dept HQ, and was the city’s first firehouse designed for motorized – rather than horse-drawn – fire equipment. Then it was the MGM Grand casino, but never was put up for sale until 2012.
The firehouse was designed to house more than 500 firefighters on its second through fifth floors
The site was used by the fire dept constantly since 1840, and is across the street from Cobo hall
Other filming sites were the former Belle Isle Nature Zoo, and the Parkway Motel on I 75
What might be a surprise is that the whole movie was filmed in Michigan, and not Texas where the story is set.
I posted about the truck in 2011 https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/10/movie-real-steel-is-awesome-and-has.html
A CRV just made this guys day! NSFW
Friday, March 07, 2025
about 17 years ago I saw one of these " on the car " wheel balancers but I can't find where I posted about it, so I'll post about it better this time
The red unit on the ground at the corner of the building, in the middle of the photo
Marc sent me these photos of one that was at this Sunoco station, and it's the first I've even heard of that kind of balancer in all these years. So it's sure time to post about it!
https://autorestorer.com/articles/balance_tires_with_retro_style_pt1-1380#google_vignette
What none of this mentions is WHY balance the wheel on the tire, and that reason is because while on the vehicle, the entire rotating assembly gets balanced, the brakes, bearings, lugs, paint and grease.
Anything that can cause an unbalance gets taken into account.
Hunter came up with this in 1946, and in 1953, GM was getting every Corvette balanced this way.
Thursday, March 06, 2025
On Dec. 7, 1944, Pfc. Dirk Vlug was manning a critical roadblock on a strategically important road in the Philippines when the Japanese launched an assault against his position with 5 tanks
As bullets whizzed by, he singlehandedly loaded the launcher and destroyed the first tank with one round, killing everyone inside. It caused the crew of the second tank to dismount and assault him, but after he shot one of them with his sidearm, the rest of the crew ran back to their tank. Once they were inside, Vlug destroyed it with another shot. Three more tanks tried to move along the road, but as they lumbered ahead, Vlug simply flanked them and took out one more with a single shot.
The remaining tanks concentrated their fire on Vlug in a desperate attempt to survive their encounter with him, but the private just moved in closer to get a better shot. After destroying that fourth tank, he hit the last Japanese tank so hard, it fell into the embankment next to the road. The entire encounter was over in just 30 minutes.
"Through his sustained heroism in the face of superior forces, Private First Class Vlug alone destroyed five enemy tanks and greatly facilitated successful accomplishment of his battalion's mission," according to his Medal of Honor citation.
Vlug survived World War II and was discharged on June 14, 1945, returning to his hometown in Michigan and joining the Michigan National Guard. In 1946, he was notified that he would receive the Medal of Honor for his heroic stand against five Japanese tanks in the Philippines. It was presented to him by President Harry S. Truman on June 7, 1946, at the White House.
Republican California Senator Grove made a bill backed by Jay Leno, SB 772, known as “Leno’s law,” would exempt classic cars, 35 years or older, from being required to do smog checks.
The new bill will help strip away the most problematic hurdle: The requirement for collector vehicles to meet exhaust emissions standards and pass functional and visual inspections.
Under the proposed rules of Leno’s Law (named after famed collector and comedian Jay Leno), vehicles would qualify for exemption by meeting just two straightforward criteria: Being at least 35 years old and having proper collector vehicle insurance.
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A crew refreshes lane striping on the Yolo Causeway in 1939
Found in a magazine of Caltrans, online. I had no idea Caltrans has a magazine
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