Sunday, April 19, 2026

VW once used a 69 Camaro in an ad... no kidding

 https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2026/04/hippy-mobile.html

this is true


most clever news reporting writing I've read in a while


Travelers on an East Tennessee interstate were forced to brake for workers — and drones, perhaps even a queen — when a truck carrying about 1 million bees crashed Friday.

this is a real photo... where Spring Oak meets Green Valley on the East Side in San Antonio. The 30 mph sign was installed a week ago...


then there was the time Calvin pushed the car out of the garage, because he wanted to use the garage for a secret clubhouse, and the car rolled down the driveway


Bumper sticker innuendo

 from Schott's Sporting, Gaming and Idling Miscellany

strange vanity plate

in a scene from Waterworld


Theres something intriguing abuot the Mad Max genre of post apocalyptic vehicles 

valve covers on a vintage Hampton Amusement park ride car since the early 70’s. Hampton Rides was a flat ride manufacturer that operated from 1942 to 1993






hand painted Mini pick up, inspired by the 303 squadron, the most successful fighter squadron, consisting of 95% Polish pilots, in the Battle of Britain (thank you Shas!)


Shas corrected my post, with some accurate facts (thank you Shas!) 

the non polish  members of the 303 were flight commander John Kent, a Canadian from Winnipeg serving in the RAF, and Josef FrantiÅ¡ek a bit eccentric Czech pilot that entered Polish service after the III Reich annexed Czechoslovakia and he fought with the 303rd to his end in a crash near Cuddington Way. At that time he was number 4 top ace pilot in all allied forces.

a 914 in Japan


Japanese garbage trucks stay clean, here's the video on how


and they are built with an interesting aesthetic curtain to hide the garbage smashing area, 







and then, the back opened up on the E type Jag, at Goodwood MM






at minute 2:40 in the video


Saturday, April 18, 2026

Walt Disney seems to have preferred this tiller steered cool old runabout



Here with his wife Lillian, and in the back seat is Fred McMurray

https://www.tumblr.com/walt-at-disneyland/173195747218/celebrating-today-walts-mother-flora-call

Walt Disney cruising around the studio backlot on a miniature horse-drawn stagecoach.


The vehicle was part of the Disneyland Stage Lines which operated at Disneyland from 1955-1959. 

Original photo taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt - Burbank, California - December 1954.


1952 Willys-Overland M38A1 has a odd notch on the top of the rear 1/4 panel



a couple months ago I posted one I found on a walk,  https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2026/02/its-rained-lot-lately-and-this-jeep-has.html#comment-form

it's a notch for a soft top frame

1910 Shaney's Auto Apthorp



old engine art


very cool

original owner slant 6 1969 Barracuda, 14k on Facebook marjketplace



cool home made tool box


Nova SS, thank Mike! 1:18 into the Mt St Helens Disaster documentary

 https://youtu.be/ZS0JVTlYgCY

good video, annoying narrator, terrific variety of museum pieces at a Japanese Concours

get the day off to a good start, pony car racing in Australia

the above corner is 5:45 into the video





this kid grew up, to write a book about racing helmets and run a car auction company


His 660 page two-volume set called The Art of Racing: Helmets is about helmets worn by famous and less-famous race car drivers, some of which are rather plain, and some are artistic masterpieces.

The Art of Racing: Helmets is co-authored—or co-curated, according to the book’s cover—by Ronald Stern, a noted helmet collector



a driver’s helmet may well be more recognizable than their likeness. 

Watch a race for minutes or hours and you may see the driver’s face for only moments, and that’s only if they do very well. The rest of the time, you’re looking at the racer’s helmet.


“It was a three-and-a-half-year project,” Twyman said. Though these are helmets—properly worn helmets, Twyman stressed, not copies, not promotional versions—from significant winners of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the Indianapolis 500, the Mille Miglia, and the Targa Florio, the subject is overwhelmingly Formula 1. “My aspiration was to get an example from every single world champion, which initially seemed like a big task, but we achieved that. And then I wondered how far we could go beyond that. What about grand prix winners?”

The plan was for a single book, “but it became quite apparent we needed two volumes, so we created a split,” ending the first book around 1979, with the second volume covering this modern era, through 2024
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Many of the helmets came from institutions such as the Swiss Museum of Transport, as well as private collections of motorsports enthusiasts such at McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown.


There are 300 “standard, slip-cased” sets for about $600, plus shipping, and there are 50 leather-bound editions that are numbered and signed for about 2k