Once the Model T took off, Henry Ford put some of his new wealth into decorating the yard... he recruited the president of the Michigan Audubon Society to plan a bird watching paradise, releasing 400-500 birds from Europe onto his estate grounds in April of 1913,

including the Eurasian chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs), Eurasian skylark (Alauda arvensis), yellhammer (Emberiza citrinella), lesser redpoll (Acanthis cabaret), bullfinches (Pyrrhula), common linnet (Linaria cannabina), and two unidentified Old World thrush/blackbird species (Turdus).

Ford used his political influence to back the Migratory Bird Act of 1913, which likely would have been ignored in Congress without his campaigning. 

Ford later acknowledged that the imported birds did not stick around or successfully colonize the area, remarking in hindsight: "They stayed around for a while, but where they are now I do not know. I shall not import any more. Birds are entitled to live where they want to live."

University of Michigan Press later published a full book on the subject, “Best of Companions: Henry Ford and the Protection of Birdlife in America.”

https://www.fromtheroad.ford.com/us/en/articles/2026/this-week-in-ford-times-fair-lane-birds

the Scout is in production... how it's going to accomplish anything the Rivian couldn't, I have no idea

Customer vehicle production isn't expected to begin until late 2027, with the first deliveries commencing in 2028.

There are already 212,000 reservations, it's a 90 / 10 split with the majority being gas assist, and the vast minority for the all electric, no doubt the same people were the ones buying the cyber truck to be the unusual people with the newest and rarest electric vehicle

https://fordauthority.com/2026/11/ford-f-150-owners-also-flirting-with-defecting-to-vws-scout

Sadly, he lived next to a LAKE and could afford a couple hundred thousand dollars of muscle cars, but not 10k of fire suppression system, water sprinklers, halon, CO2, etc. WTF is wrong with rich people?

https://www.facebook.com/groups/996045710517424/permalink/28771455209216434

If I lived next to a lake, I'd have run a pipe out to the deepest spot in the lake, anchored it 4 feet from the bottom for clean water, and had a pump triggered by a pair of smoke alarms (always have a redundant back up system) in addition to a 2000 gallon pressurized tank of water, that had a pressure regulator on the output line, and it would be triggered by a heat sensitive solder trigger relay system, so that no electricity would be needed to activate and deliver plenty of water to prevent and extinguish a fire

news flash... FAA orders all flights grounded - no reason given, but the cause was inability of the air traffic control system at the FAA to keep up (and it's a funding issue that MIGHT coincide with hinting to a new democrat congress to approving funding). 7800 flights affected in 4 hours

The Federal Aviation Administration ordered a nationwide ground stop Friday afternoon, Nov. 13, halting departing flights at airports across the United States because of unspecified safety concerns. 

According to an advisory issued by the FAA’s Air Traffic Control System Command Center, the ground stop took effect at 2:54 p.m. Central time and will remain in place until further notice.

https://www.news9.com/oklahoma-city-news/faa-reportedly-issues-nationwide-ground-stop

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/article/faa-says-nationwide-ground-stop-is-over-after-thousands-of-flights-canceled-021133009.html?.tsrc=1340&ncid=crm_-1285232-20261113-1074--A

Interesting 3 axle truck made to look like a VW microbus

every now and then, someone happens to be in the background of a photo, and though it's rare, most people never notice. So here's a photo I took, and I leave it to you to see if you want to look and see

 A moment later he (and a couple PR handlers ) walked right by. I was surprised the people in the area weren't mobbing him for autographs. Not a single person spoke up, walked over to get in his way, nothing. With his lifetime celebrity and icon status (he's even a Goodwood USA legend) 

there were a surprising amount of 80s Camaros at SEMA this year. Of course there are a lot of 69 Camaros... but the 2nd and 3rd gen don't get upgraded nearly as much

and this one 70s Camaro

very cool to see this flattened oval exhaust 

someone earned a very cool set of stickers

this tiny little thing is adorable for a JDM Nissan race car

 

fwiw... the coolest magazine I've seen ... is this issue number one of Dusty Times, in a leather cover! THAT is really damn classy

and fwiw the back of issue 2 has a collection of vintage patches

Memorial in honor of the crew members of the B17G "Maid to Please" in Henonville (Oise) France

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=8413454705346313&set=pcb.10160403734792728

horse drawn wheeled contraption that is waiting for the horses to get hooked up, under a hydroelectric dam component

https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=182418

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1582731497232948&set=a.466435585529217

just a cool photo

Not a pilot, gunner, or navigator but he spent a lot of time on B17s as an electrician, replacing or repairing anything electrical that may have failed . 

He was in the 401st Bomb Group out of Deenthorpe. 

He met his future wife while he was over there, she was one of many war brides that made the trip to the U.S. He passed away at 100 years old, still living in the house they bought in 1948

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1654161632711049&set=gm.10165502261712728&idorvanity=9261317727

Is there a legal way for the government to use the photo of a person, without their permission, on license plates and registration? Puerto Rico is certain they CAN, and had Roberto Clemente on their license plate. His sons took their case to the Supreme Court

The US Supreme Court ​declined on Monday to hear a challenge by Roberto Clemente's sons to Puerto Rico's use of the baseball ‌great's image on commemorative license plates and vehicle registration tags, which they alleged violates constitutional protections against government taking of trademark rights.

Clemente, a Puerto Rico native, played for Major ​League Baseball's Pittsburgh Pirates for 18 seasons from 1955 to 1972. He was a 15-time All-Star right fielder and two-time ​World Series champion in a career that earned him induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame and ⁠a statue outside the team's stadium. He died at age 38 in a 1972 airplane crash while delivering humanitarian aid to ​earthquake victims in Nicaragua.

The suit, which claimed the use of the likeness generated $15 million for Puerto Rico, seeks to block any use of their father's likeness on license plates and tags and obtain $45 million ​in damages and $3.15 million in compensation for trademark infringement.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roberto_Clemente_Puerto_Rico_Plate.jpg

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-supreme-court-rejects-dispute-over-roberto-clemente-license-plates-puerto-2026-11-09

Lincolnstein... has a terrific airbrushed Frank on the back

Seems to be Steve Irwin's Land Cruiser

Kindigs latest, probably best, creation

Ring Brothers GTO