Friday, September 04, 2026

well done outfit, a phrase I never use to describe clothes

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a garage built to last forever


before inflation, the 21 drinking age, the 55 speed limit, unleaded gas, and radial tires... there were lots of mom n pop businesses like this all across the country


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I get a kick out of seeing how gas stations powered their pumos... I wonder if this was when there was a black out, or to prevent anyone from pumping and taking off without paying


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

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59 Bugeye Sprite look sgood without anything above the windshield frame




Car Racing 1971, a photography book about the atmosphere of 1970s motorsport through photos from the archives of the DPPI photographic agency.



https://www.amazon.com/Car-Racing-1971-Alain-Pernot/dp/2702211437/ref=asc_df_2702211437

a hairpin on the Amalfi coast by Sorrento Italy


https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=28374524278844688&set=gm.3492869380886641&idorvanity=132380976935515 via the  Vintage Men, Classic Sporting Life & Adventure face book page https://www.facebook.com/groups/132380976935515/

there used to be a LOT of companies making stuff in the USA 60 years ago

this switcher still works, and is in use 

people are still making cool things out there


evidence via ACME Tag Co that this rocker was shipped by the SOO Line railroad way back in the day


Thursday, September 03, 2026

Passed down through generations, this 1929 Travel Air is an enduring symbol of the Rezich family’s aviation legacy. This family and their biplane have been attending EAA fly-ins since 1953!



one hell of a good looking model car, the John Wick Mustang sold by Fanhome


getting the most enjoyment out of his ride... by using the banks!


https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2026/09/hitting-that-corner-hard.html

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

you don't have to race something fast to have fun (exhibit A: go carts) so why not race something cheap, disposable in event of crashes or collisions, and not made in Italy or Germany?



A Hurstette, June Cochran, who was a Playboy Playmate Dec. 1962, and Playmate of the year 1963


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

A fully intact Boeing KC-97 refueling tanker that served the U.S. Air Force and Texas Air Guard.




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.

it's been a long time since I've seen a 60s double entendre ad





good photo of a cool delivery vvan


Wednesday, September 02, 2026

interesting pedal car design from the 1930s, 40s, or 50s



love that architecture had an influence on gas station design, and these were all over California, from San Diego to Sacramento



I don't know who would want a plushie of their favorite vehicle, but, there is a company making them

 

this could be AI or it might be real

The service body came from a wrecked firetruck. Great storage and the top makes a nice work bench if needed.



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.



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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