The Glendale auction in march of last year saw this car change hands for the first time in its life for $29,700
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
just 82 Impala wagons came with a 409. Of those 82, how many stayed with one family for nearly six decades, and is in showroom condition?
The Glendale auction in march of last year saw this car change hands for the first time in its life for $29,700
seen on today's walk
Huh! Right hand drive, with places from Asia. How's that avoid parking tickets for not having California plates?
to no one's surprise the guy who makes the laws (state representative) is a drunk driver, but sure as hell is all for the police keeping anyone else from drunk driving. But here's the shocking thing, what he gave as his reason for drinking beer and driving:
Natrona County (Wyoming) Republican Representative Bill Allemand wants to forgo court-ordered alcohol testing during the upcoming legislative session, while a driving under the influence case against him proceeds (Innocent until proven guilty, ok, I can go with that)
After Allemand was pulled over, a Johnson County sheriff’s deputy said he found an open can of beer in the center console of the lawmaker’s truck alongside four unopened beers and a loaded pistol on the front passenger seat. Allemand admitted to drinking two beers 15 minutes before the stop and told the deputy “he drinks while driving for anxiety,” according to a police report.
I think any elected representative in government should instantly be recalled, and or impeached when busted for drunk driving. That's a shit for brains that clearly ain't following a single damn law and shouldn't be in a job with the power to make laws and get rich off insider trading.
Monday, January 26, 2026
Sunday, January 25, 2026
Louisa County High School in Virginia has been doing something awesome for the past 8 years, they have been fixing up donated cars and then giving them away to single moms who could use a lift 4-5 times a year (Thank you Steve!)
That's a bunch of teenagers, doing something great for single moms.
My parents divorced when I was 2 or 3, and then my mom was struggling trying to get by and keeping 2 kids and herself fed and with a place to sleep.
My parents divorced when I was 2 or 3, and then my mom was struggling trying to get by and keeping 2 kids and herself fed and with a place to sleep.
Used cars were 50 bucks back then, in the early to mid 70s, but they were completely worn out. And every damn little thing that could wear out was worn out. That's the only reason those worn out 60s cars were sitting on used car lots, the replacement parts cost more than the cars were worth.
Around 20 students are working on cars each semester in the school, about an hour northwest of Richmond. The teacher, Shane Robertson, instructs kids on how to perform brake and tire repairs, change fluids, test batteries, and maintain heating and cooling systems.
“They get the real-life grit behind why they are really doing a task,” Robertson said in an interview with ABC. “This is somebody’s real car and you’re really making a change in the world.”
The program began in partnership with the nonprofit Giving Words, a local charity that works to support single parents by providing complimentary vehicles and car repairs.
Founder Eddie Brown and his wife were both single parents who had struggled with transportation issues before launching the nonprofit.
“So far, we’ve given over 60 cars away, and repaired more than 260,” Brown told WTVR
“They get the real-life grit behind why they are really doing a task,” Robertson said in an interview with ABC. “This is somebody’s real car and you’re really making a change in the world.”
The program began in partnership with the nonprofit Giving Words, a local charity that works to support single parents by providing complimentary vehicles and car repairs.
Founder Eddie Brown and his wife were both single parents who had struggled with transportation issues before launching the nonprofit.
“So far, we’ve given over 60 cars away, and repaired more than 260,” Brown told WTVR
For the news video of the above, word for word: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA5k9qmEihU
It's a complicated world, and there are many odd ways that cars end up being given to charities, one is for a tax write off, one might be (darned if I know) when people without next of kin die and their cars are suddenly abandoned. Maybe the many cars that are impounded by the county or cities after being abandoned on the streets and ticketed for enough months, end up in these charities. I don't know.
But I know that rarely does a single mom have any spare money for repairs, and I can tell you that a broken radiator is 800 just for parts, Shop rate labor is now around 300 an hour, up 50 an hour from just 2 years ago. I shit you not.
And there ain't many people who can afford to fix up a run down ol car, and it's the path to perpetual poverty to be without reliable transportation, as IF there is public transportation, the TIME wasted on a bus, trolley, or train, takes away all a persons time to take car of family.
20 years ago I didn't have a commuter, I just had my 69 R/T, and that was 12 dollars a day to drive to work, and 20 minutes. So, I spent many months taking the San Diego Trolley 3 days a week, and driving the R/T twice a week, and that trolley took about 75 min each direction. So, 2.5 hours wasted to commute to a job that a car could simply take 40 minutes a day to achieve. Time is money too. It's valuable and important to have as much time off work as possible to enjoy living. Even if it's just relaxing.
I know what it's like to do a daily job without reliable transportation. And how damn expensive it is to fix up old cars. I never had a new car until I was 40. So, the first 20 some years after high school, was all old cars.
But single moms? They don't get time to relax, they got kids full time. So they need a reliable car that won't drown them in debt in repairs, so they can spend more time raising their kids, because without a parent spending time raising a kid, that's probably going to turn out to be a person with serious problems, a lifetime of them. If that can be prevented with a reliable car? We got to recognize and respect those that can help.
Bentley hired Travis Pastrana for a mini Gymkhana-style video shot at the automaker’s factory in England.
Bentley also emptied its heritage vault for this video. Continental GT3 race cars, the Le Mans-winning Speed 8, Bentayga, and Continental GT Pikes Peak racers, and a convoy of 1920s Bentleys all make appearances.
All three previous Bentley Supersports appear, including an original 1925 3 Liter Super Sports (spelled as two words), of which just 18 were built.
In 1973, an aerospace engineer at NASA was bicycling to work when he noticed how the aerodynamic wakes of passing flat face COE semi trucks. Flat nose COEs were used because of the stupid overall length laws
A tractor-trailer doing 55 mph shoved aside 18 tons of air every single mile. Half the engine's power wasn't moving freight—it's just pushing air out of the way. That's fuel burning for nothing.
NASA engineers grabbed a beat-up Ford van from the motor pool and turned it into a test rig. They built a square aluminum box around it and started rounding off edges, sealing the bottom, measuring everything. Just rounding the front edges cut drag by 52%. Sealing up the underside saved another 7%.
Then they got serious. They leased a cab-over and went to work. Rounded the corners on the cab, barely lost any space inside, dropped drag by 40%. Rounded everything they could, lost 3% of interior room, cut drag by 54%. But the big win was closing up that gap between the tractor and trailer. That alone saved 20 to 25% on fuel. An owner-operator running 100,000 miles a year? That's 7,000 gallons staying in the tank.
So, yeah, aerodynamics, but why the hell was NASA wasting tax payer dollars on trucking? Was it because they'd put man on the moon and didn't have a damn clue what to do next to keep the budget numbers for the next fiscal budget year? I'm pretty sure NASA didn't accomplish a damn thing for a decade, until they got the shuttle flying, just to put satellites into space. Not that that was much changed from the rocket era, which had already perfected accomplished satellite placement. And now? Space X is 90% cheaper at doing the same job.
Sacramento City College will be the first California college to join a federal air traffic controller training program. Only 12 colleges have joined the program across the country. Huh. Not very popular
according to a news release from U.S. Rep. Ami Bera, a Democrat who represents Sacramento County, the enhanced designation will allow qualified students to bypass the FAA Academy in Oklahoma City and help address the national air traffic controller shortage.
Passengers aboard an already-delayed American Airlines flight were stuck for nearly 3 hours at Harrisburg International Airport, until after 3 a.m., because of an airport equipment malfunction and an apparent insufficient airline staff to help the passengers off the flight another way.
The jetway was not working, and they said there were no stairs and the pilot wasn't able to arrange for a tug to pull the plane to another gate.
American Airlines flight 1549 from Dallas-Fort Worth
Passengers finally got off the plane through a rear stairway and walked to the terminal.
That two-and-a-half-hour wait between landing and deplaning would enable the airline to narrowly avoid potentially millions of dollars in fines under what’s sometimes known as the “tarmac delay rule.” Under the rule, airlines face fines of up to $27,500 per passenger for a wait on the ground, aboard an aircraft, of more than three hours.Airlines at Harrisburg, except American, use contracted “ground handlers,” as the companies are known, to perform tasks such as operating the jetbridges and — in a case like this — bringing stairs and managing the unusual arrival. But American — with more flights than any other airline at the airport plus its own subsidiary, Piedmont Airlines, with a maintenance and crew base at the airport — uses its own Piedmont workers to perform those jobs.
Based on several accounts, no such worker was at the airport when the flight initially landed, with the specific knowledge and training to operate the stairs.
I suppose the FAA and US Marshalls would lose their fuzzy little minds if someone simply made the call and used the emergency inflatable ramp and get the passengers off the damn plane in a nice bit of "training" in emergency plane evacuation equipment
Saturday, January 24, 2026
sheriff's deputies pulled over a 79 Cadillac for speeding on PCH, and discovered 2 surprises, a homeless man was behind the wheel, and it was stolen from Jerry O'Connell.
It was stolen from O'Connell's Calabasas home in the west San Fernando Valley.
O'Connell and his family were out of town and were not aware the car had been stolen, the sheriff's department said.
The new GTP Pilot Sport Endurance tires on the cars competing in the GTP class look a bit different. The tread pattern is the talking point to get free publicity for the 50% recycled material tires factoid, which is interesting.
The texture is called the “Vision” pattern and it is designed to help with initial warmup, since the cars of IMSA do not utilize tire warmers.
Previously, it could take multiple laps to get the tires up to full operating temperature
These new GTP treads are composed of 50% recycled or renewable material, but last just as long during hard driving stints, including the double stints that often take place at big races like the 24 at Daytona.
the most and least satisfying tire brands have been under study by Consumer Reports over the past four years, over 52,000 sets of tires
The tire testing process includes a number of grip-related evaluations, including wet and dry braking, handling, and snow traction.
two brands had top marks for satisfaction among all-season tires: Michelin and Vredestein. Significantly, 10 all-season tire brands were given our lowest rating.
• The all-terrain tire category was judged to be more satisfying, with 11 of 26 brands found by owners to have favorable satisfaction.
• Satisfaction is widely distributed among the winter/snow tire category, with four brands receiving the highest ratings
two brands had top marks for satisfaction among all-season tires: Michelin and Vredestein. Significantly, 10 all-season tire brands were given our lowest rating.
• The all-terrain tire category was judged to be more satisfying, with 11 of 26 brands found by owners to have favorable satisfaction.
• Satisfaction is widely distributed among the winter/snow tire category, with four brands receiving the highest ratings
Uniroyal was rated at the bottom of Consumer Reports' recent ranking of the most satisfying All-Season tire brands, though several other budget offerings were also listed in the red for the same category.
Unfortunately it also landed last in customer satisfaction when it comes to its Winter/Snow tire offerings.
Sumitomo, Kelly, Hercules, GT Radial, Dunlop, and, BF Goodrich were also rated red by unsatisfied customers in that category.
In the Summer tire category, Sumitomo was the worst rated tire for customer satisfaction, with the budget brand making the unfortunate claim of being at, or very near the bottom of the list in all four categories surveyed for the Consumer Reports rankings.
In the All-Terrain category, Sumitomo earned the lowest marks for customer satisfaction.
Michelin Tires fared the best on the Consumer Reports satisfaction list, and earned the highest rating in all four categories surveyed.
It was the only manufacturer to claim that honor.
However, the European tire brand Vredestein was also rated well in all categories, earning light green marks in the All-Season, Winter/Snow, and Summer tire categories, and a dark green rating in the All-Terrain sector.
Robert Moses, a prominent 20th-century NYC planner, intentionally designed overpasses on the Southern State Parkway at a low height that busses couldn't pass under, because this would prevent low income bus riders from getting to Jones beach
This tactic in the late 1920s while FDR was the governor, was aimed at restricting access to public, city-funded beaches, enforcing segregation through, rather than of, infrastructure.
Allegedly some critics have argued that Moses utilized various urban planning techniques to disrupt Black and Latino communities, including constructing highways directly through these neighborhoods, such as the Cross Bronx Expressway. In order to build the Southern State, many Long Island farmers were either forced off their land or required to sell portions of their farms.
In one of the 1,300-page, Pulitzer-winning book's most memorable passages, Caro reveals that Moses ordered his engineers to build the bridges low over the parkway to keep buses from the city away from Jones Beach—buses presumably filled with the poor blacks and Puerto Ricans Moses despised.
https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/Q096/highlights/12650
Caro described Moses as “the most racist human being I had ever really encountered.” The evidence is legion: minority neighborhoods bulldozed for urban renewal projects
Thomas J. Campanella, a professor at Cornell University, a historian and a writer on city planning and the urban environment, sees the potential evidence of discrimination in the lower height of the Southern State bridges compared with those on other parkways Moses designed.
Cadillac mirror thermometer (thanks Mike!)
Starting in the early 1970s and lasting through the early '80s, Cadillac equipped models like the DeVille and Seville with an analog "mirror thermometer" built directly into the driver-side housing. These clever mechanical dials were tilted toward the driver and even featured fiber-optic lighting so they were visible at night, allowing owners to monitor the outside temperature without modern sensors or LED screens.
the predictable result of not towing with a proper vehicle, and experience enough to know how to tow. Hell, I've got zero experience too, I know it, and DON"T tow. That's what tow truck companies are for.
Neither made it father than 4 miles, combined they got as far as 4 miles and one exit ramp.
Incredibly rare type of Roman road discovered in Worcester, its only comparatives are in Rome and Pompeii.
The road is believed to have been hidden for nearly 2000 years.
Archaeologists were brought in to establish the authenticity of the cobbled path. The road is constructed with large stones laid in bands, a well-known Roman building technique.
Illustration for “There Are No Ordinary Men in Iowa,” Saturday Evening Post, May 10, 1947.
Albert Dorne, born to such New York poverty, by age 10 he was working on escaping the single mom with 4 kids in the slums life he'd been born to
he skipped school, and hung out in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, made friends with the guards and docents, and was the youngest ever given a pass to paint and draw in the galleries. By 7th grade, he dropped out of school, to earn money with art, and his teachers made a pact not to turn him in to the truancy officers, knowing school was a waste of his life, and he was destined for better under his own stewardship.
He sold newspapers, more cleverly than other newsies, by picking a better location. Not the highest trafficked, but the location with the best tippers. By age 12, he'd hired 4 other kids to man spots he picked out.
He apprenticed as a letterer with then-letterer and future prominent illustrator Saul Tepper before beginning a five-year stint at the commercial art studio of Alexander Rice. He left the studio to begin a freelance career and soon his illustrations started appearing in such magazines as Life, Collier's and The Saturday Evening Post and by 1943 was featured on the cover of 'American Artist' magazine, recognized as 'one of the best and highest paid in the field of advertising illustration.'
Eventually, Dorne became the wealthiest illustrator in America, the president of the Society of Illustrators, and the founder of the international Famous Artists School in 1948 with the assistance of Norman Rockwell. Faculty included colleagues Al Parker, Austin Briggs, Rube Goldberg, and several others. The Famous Artists School correspondence course influenced generations of artists.
He drove a custom made Mercedes with a burled walnut dashboard and a pull-out bar. His steering wheel featured a silver plaque with Dorne’s initials and a large star sapphire.
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