Friday, September 04, 2026
the only thing this could rescue is small town cops from a boring weekend
some police dept is out to have fun offroading, just my 2 cents
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1456055622886758&set=pcb.1456077969551190
a hairpin on the Amalfi coast by Sorrento Italy
there used to be a LOT of companies making stuff in the USA 60 years ago
this switcher still works, and is in use
Thursday, September 03, 2026
too many excavators have gotten stuck, and sunk, underwater... this one was sadly too much trouble to get out for the insurance company. There just aren't enough experienced excavator operators out there that regularly get these unstuck... I've seen a dozen or more pulled out, and even posted the videos. It's very time consuming, but not difficult.
this machine has a brand new engine in it, so after several months of recovery attempts, and the insurance company paying out out on it for a total loss, the home owner wanted someone to come pull it out for basically free in return for making a YouTube video about the recovery. There are a LOT of people doing "unstuck", underwater, and recovery videos on Youtube now
great and new car chase stunt, which is what I HOPE for with every movie... that the Hollywood people come up with something new and marvelous enneth Branagh
the new movie on Apple tv streaming, "Mayday" with Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh has them using a USSR mobile ICBM launcher to escape from the KGB
and when the KGB try to surround the enormous mobile launcher, with little WW2 Jeep size 4x4s, the fantastic new move, is to extend the stabilizers! It pushes the little 4x4s off the road
The Convair Restaurant, Erie, Colorado in the 80s
The restaurant was made from the carcass of a Ports Of Call Denver CV 990 (a charter outfit) that had been stripped for parts and junked.
It was located at what was then known as Tri-County Airport, and there was a ramp outside where you could taxi up for a "fly in" dinner.
The airframe had been completely stripped, so the inside was fitted out as a long, skinny dining room, with the cockpit set up as a booth that would seat eight people. The kitchen was in the building underneath, along with a bar and lounge. Food would be sent up to the plane via a very finicky dumb waiter.
The restaurant was only around for a decade or so. It closed up in the late 80s, and the plane was scrapped in the mid 90s.
Wednesday, September 02, 2026
These concrete snow sheds at Donner Summit cover the original CPRR Right of way which no longer has tracks. Still owned by Union Pacific and used by UP work trucks and hikers.
this is the first time I've learned of a Gas Ronda signature series of tachs from RAC
Gaspar Ronda was also a dance instructor, restaurateur, and car salesman at George Newtell's Downtown Ford car dealership in Los Angeles, then moved to Covina at worked at Russ Davis Ford
he got a 427 Fairlane, they were eligible for Super Stock, rather than F/X (Factory Experimental), and he beat Butch Leal's Thunderbolt in the final of the 1964 Winternationals, with a 11.78 seconds / 123.40 mph. He also took NHRA's national Top Stock crown that year, at the wheel of a 427 Fairlane
He then was also a member of the Ford factory drag racing team, running one of their 427-powered Fairlane Thunderbolts.
Ronda took a radically different tack after retiring from drag racing, he opened the Funny Car Tavern, in Azusa, the he moved to West Covina, establishing a nightclub called Ronda's Gas House, with three bars and two dance floors, right on Interstate 10 east of Azusa Ave
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