Saturday, March 28, 2026

this... really is a DeLorean. DeLorean partnered with his brother Jack to build four go-kart tracks in Michigan, and they stocked the grids with fleets of 20 HP, 3/4-size open-wheel racers. Thank you Doug!

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The business folded after just a couple years, and its assets and intellectual property were purchased by California entrepreneur Ron Camero...

this isn't a Ferrari barchetta, it's an MG. A '52 Cooper-MG T21 Barchetta (than you Doug! )

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Friday, March 27, 2026

if you're going to station wagon, there's a couple directions to go... original, dragster, or something a goofy teenager would make and have fun with

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unreal... Mark is building a tribute Corvette Summer

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the Opel Ascona 400 that won the 1982 World Rally Championship, was located after a conversation at 4am in a bar in Nairobi resulted in an address. Two years later the car lost for decades, but preserved in pieces across a property in Kenya, finally got a six-year restoration

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Don has two cool momentos from his childhood... the license plate from his dad's VW microbus, and it's license plate. Thank you Don! (Don has been a reader for at least 15 years!)

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an old rail car diner in Scotland, South Dakota

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Thursday, March 26, 2026

the coolest thing I saw on todays walk... this So Cal original Mustang. The license plate is the same one it was given when first purchased. That's a cool thing about California yellow on black plates, they show that a car's from here, never left, and wasn't brought in from some place it rains and rusts

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this was the rear license plate originally... that's weird to have had it moved to the front. But, it's the very accurate way to say...
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nice freshened up Mustang under the car cover... that they do not understand how to properly put over the antenna (unscrew the antenna you idiots)

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it's rare to find a 914 on the street. But this guy has a garage that must have something in it that won't ever come out, as the van has blocked the door for years. This 914 has been on this cul de sac for at least 11 years

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I was only a block away from where I walked yesterday, and only found old trucks, on today's walk, so it's no surprise that I found a couple more. It's truck country

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they didn't make 4 door Gran Torino, did they? Why the hell would they?

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yes, I learned, they did wreck a solid decent looking Gran Torino by selling a 4 door version. That's stupid. https://www.facebook.com/g...

I did not realize Steven Tyler's mouth was really this big... wow. Makes you wonder if it's abnormally large, maybe a record size? Anyway, thanks to Steve for telling me about this photo collection!

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Steven Tyler with his 1956 Mercedes-Benz 220S were taken by Ron Pownall at Jamaica Pond in Boston, Massachusetts in October 1975 for CREEM m...

The Los Angeles City Council unanimously approved a plan to install 125 speed cameras. Some are on interstates, most aren't

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Automated citations will trigger for drivers traveling at least 11 mph over the limit, with fines ranging from $50 to $500. The program, au...
Wednesday, March 25, 2026

when the hybrid, all-wheel drive ZR1X lapped the 'Ring in 6:49.275, it became the fastest ever lap by an American production vehicle, as well as the fastest completed by any non-professional race car driver and the fifth-best overall.

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Fast forward to today, and two Mustang GTD - one blue, one black - were turned loose at the Nürburgring.  Though official scoring and timing...
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is it only California where somebody calls the police department to complain about your car because it’s an “eye sore”? Cacophony rightly (and perfectly) states that it is a "historically significant North American transportation artifact"

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Central Railway Station in Helsinki, Finland

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things look a lot more impressive in the dark, when lit by fire. Just my opinion of course, but ask any guy who was ever in love with the way his date looked in the campfire light. See what I mean?

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as strange as it seems, these two old trucks were the only interesting cool old vehicles in the area I walked in tonight... and it's a RICH neighborhood.

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and under car covers, so they barely count as being seen... what is likely a Chevelle and an Elk.  and they haven't moved since 2011. I ...

seen on today's walk... lol, a tortoise on a furniture dolly! Hey, it's got wheels! LOL!

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when I was walking by the tortoise was in the front yard by the sidewalk, so I stopped to shoot the breeze with the homeowner, as I was curi...

a bad shop was busted... Miller Performance and Restoration in Sevierville owner arrested, and the owners of vehicles taken there, years ago, and tens of thousands of dollars ago, got their 56 F-100, 69 Mach 1

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In October 2023, the Sevier County Grand Jury indicted Miller on five counts of unlawfully and knowingly controlling personal property, auto...
Tuesday, March 24, 2026

the current bombing of Iranian military targets, probably is accomplishing the destruction of the last operational F-14s anywhere in the world. Not that it's particularly significant, but in the historical context, it's strange that some have been functional since 1979

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if confirmed, their loss would close the book on a decades-long saga that saw their unprecedented sale in the 1970s to a Middle Eastern all...

the coolest thing I saw in two days of walking... was this MG BGT last registered in 97. It looks like it's been sitting here rusting for 29 years

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the walking for last week was postponed until the temps dropped, and the walking the last 2 days? Very disappointing in cool car results. These two are all there were that even reached the level of old and interesting except for the MG

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