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Thursday, March 28, 2024
Stand and raise a beer to toast the retirement of Dominic Clark, and begine the slow clapping that crescendos
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Dominic Clark has spent over 50 years in sports marketing, and is officially retiring from the industry and Media Operations Director for SC...
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
the work of James O'Brien (or, by his Russian name: Vadim Ignatiev)
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https://www.blendernation.com/2018/02/21/art-james-obrien-vadim-ignatiev
Chuck Knudsen saved for 3 years to buy this Cyclone GT at age 19 in 1968, he parked it in 1974, kept it ever since, and stored it 47 years without a drive, only to finally restore it!
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Chuck was a teenager in 1966 when his father took him to a Ford dealership and in the showroom sat a Cyclone that drew his attention so full...
here's something you surely haven't seen before: a six-car collection consisting of Ford Pinto station wagons. People will collect anything
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https://www.autoevolution.com/news/lot-of-six-yellow-ford-pinto-wagons-shows-people-will-collect-anything-231494.html#
a pen-and-ink sketch of the Revolutionary War’s North Carolina Brigade’s August 1777 trip through Philadelphia to the Battle of Brandywine, was spotted in an art collector's apartment
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the collector acquired the sketch from a New York antiquities dealer during the 1970s. The dealer found it in the New Jersey home of a docto...
The MTA board on Wednesday gave its final approval of congestion pricing, paving the way for the agency to charge drivers a $15 daytime toll to enter Manhattan south of 60th Street.
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Opposition to charging New Yorker drivers to enter an area they already have a license to operate a vehicle in, where the roads have been pa...
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George Barris even had to watermark this image of Jeffries workshop? Effing get over yourself and let someone else shine for pete's sake, George
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https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/traditional-images-that-need-no-explanation.1143737/page-50#post-13458807 Great little T Bucke...
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Canada is trying really hard to get a guy to pay his speeding ticket. They declared him dead, then tried to access the amount through the "estate" even though he's proven to be alive, and annoyed
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https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/montreal-man-returns-from-vacation-gets-letter-from-quebec-government-saying-he-s-dead-1.6808017 https://ogdaa...
they didn't realize it was the glory days, they just made race cars for fun, and had cheap high octane gas at the local corner gas station
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https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/traditional-images-that-need-no-explanation.1143737/page-50#post-13455972
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
the greedy real estate types who wanted to shut down Laguna Seca lost their case, and Laguna Seca, racing cars since the track was laid out in 1957 on Fort Ord property provided by the U.S. Army, will continue racing
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https://www.montereycountyweekly.com/blogs/news_blog/coalition-of-residents-settles-with-county-over-laguna-seca-contract-agrees-to-drop-l...
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one of these days someone is going to make a steampunk Airstream, if they haven't already
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https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=712001134279010&set=a.444829924329467
at least seven vehicles fell into the Patapsco River in Baltimore when the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed after being hit by a Singapore registered cargo container ship at about 1.30am
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A container ship crashed into one of the bridge’s supports early Tuesday, causing it to snap in several places and plunge into the river be...
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Monday, March 25, 2024
superchargers photography by Matthew Porter
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https://manoftheworld.com/blogs/articles/holy-motors
the Butterfield Overland Mail Stage. The stage operations, which began in 1858 between St. Louis and San Francisco, revolutionized mail and passenger service. Traveling 24 hours a day, the 2,800-mile trip took an unheard-of 25 days!
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https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=25066
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six World War II-era plane crash sites that have been discovered on the Scottish island of Arran, but a propeller from a B 17 or B 24 was mislaid in a peat bog long ago, and just found during an ecological restoration of the spongy peatland
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The archaeologist thinks the newly discovered blade may have been collected during the initial clean-up of the crash site in the 1940s, or p...
Since 1924, Camp Richardson Resort has been in one of the last old-growth forests on the southwest shore of Lake Tahoe
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In 1884, Alonzo Richardson, a Civil War veteran, arrived at Lake Tahoe, he established a rustic summer camp in 1924 Richardson purchased the...
A lot of summer resorts were in business in lower Michigan by the 1920s, one had a miniature train for rides around the resort through the Michigan forest, and a cool depot.
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I kid you not, to be a teenager looking for a summer job, and landing a train operator or mechanic job? Wow another had a baseball park, one...
a teens 1st car
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https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=7318903118216823&set=gm.943110647407720&idorvanity=930538238664961 I'd like to add, "...
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Sunday, March 24, 2024
Kim just tipped me to a cartoon about girls high school tank combat competition! (Thanks Kim!)
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the experts will tell you what order that you should watch them in isn't chronological as there are 4 movies and 8 OVA episodes plus cou...
the Netflix series Three Body Problem, has a scene with an Austin Healey 3000, quite unexpectedly
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Why don't car museums make chairs and couches like these 1910 automobile back seats? Is there anything they could do more aesthetically classy and thematically appropriate for lounge chairs?
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https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10220977484980713&set=pcb.1370647746968045
the track on race day 1911, Indianapolis 500
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https://www.facebook.com/groups/1367885490577604/permalink/1369702960395857
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Saturday, March 23, 2024
1899 electric omnibus. Berlin, Germany.
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https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=7628732470491362&set=g.811703519221774 The first battery bus to be put into commercial bus service ...
this is amazing, someone found a new way to get the sand out of vehicles carpets... without expensive gadgets, just use a sander to vibrate the hell out of the carpet
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See the video at https://www.tumblr.com/willcodehtmlforfood/744870936181866496?source=share Interesting to me, because it's really ha...
remember the Roach Coach?
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https://www.gatsbyonline.com/automobile/hot-rods/hot-rod-roach-coach-365182/
The animated series I learned about at last years Comic Con is now on Hulu, and roughly, it's a tank battle between the good guys in 1 stolen tank vs the 5 the bad guys army sent in chase.
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Skip the first 30 seconds, and yes, the whole series you'll have to read the captions on. for the comic con gallery of the Sand Land bo...
hot rods, built from regular roadsters etc, are very cool. But some hot rods were built from things like Pierce Arrow limos! I kids you not! Jason Graham Hot Rods started with a 1931 Pierce Arrow ex-limo
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A '55 Oldsmobile was used as the donor car for many of the parts, including the engine, dashboard and several trim pieces. The h...
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the engineers at Scewo ( pronounced Ski Whoa for some reason ) have made a very advanced wheelchair that can climb stairs, but it costs $50k
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all you need at the first 25 seconds https://www.scewo.com/en/
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Browns service station on rt16 at Belva,W.V. In continuous operation for over 100 years. Still owned and operated by the same family, still full service at the pump
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https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1607507766754784&set=pcb.1381946182506224
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Friday, March 22, 2024
old handtools can be transformed into pretty realistic "futuristic" movie prop guns
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https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10225351968166390&set=a.1617402035143
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