Saturday, September 21, 2019
Friday, September 20, 2019
Motorcycle platoon on Harley-Davidson JD-1200 with sidecar armed with Hotchkiss wz. 14 heavy machine gun from 1932.
Photo by Witczak-Witaczyński Narcyz.
Thanks Shas!
A hacker by the name of Droogie decided to mess with the Automatic License Plate Reader systems that issue traffic fines. from that alone you ought to expect this backfired on him colossally
Droogie (a name Joseph Tartaro made up for himself as a teen) had decided to experiment with the "NULL" plate, after checking with California's DMV and finding it surprisingly available. "Registration went through fine," he said, "no bugs or anything," leaving him without any "high expectations of the DMV website."
“The idea was I’d get VOID for my wife’s car, so our driveway would be NULL and VOID,” Tartaro says.
He secured the plate and set out to check "is it possible to be ‘invisible’ to citations? What happens when a police officer does a search for my plate 'NULL', would it not return any data? If they file a citation, would it cause an issue?"
That first year as a NULL driver was uneventful. But when it came time to renew in 2017, the DMV website no longer accepted NULL as an option. “It broke the website,” Tartaro says. Specifically, the site told him that the license plate and vehicle identification number he had entered, knows as the VIN, were invalid. But Tartaro was still able to use a reference number to renew. He didn’t think much more of it. Unluckily for Droogie he had provided an address for all those unassigned tickets to get sent to, $12,000 dollars worth, at first. More followed
He also didn’t think much of the ticket he got in early 2018, for not having the appropriate registration sticker on his license plate. Tartaro suspects someone scraped it off to use on their own car. He thought about fighting it, but the fine was only $35, so he decided to just pay it and move on with his life.
Then came the citations. Dozens of them, deposited in bulk to his mailbox. Parking violations, stand-stop violations, fines of $37, $60, $74, $80, from Fresno to Rancho Cucamonga. “I’ve never been to Fresno,” Tartaro says of the California city.
Nor had Tartaro gone on a statewide, parking-related crime spree. Instead, by paying that $35 ticket, it appears that a database somewhere now associated NULL with his personal information. Which means that any time a traffic cop forgot to fill in the license plate number on a citation, the fine automatically got sent to Joseph Tartaro.
The tickets were for Hondas, Toyotas, Mercedes vehicles. (Tartaro has an Infiniti.) At one point, Tartaro says, he received two tickets written at Cyprus College within hours of each other—for two different vehicles. He would have had to swap the registration during his lunch break. Worse yet, the incoming citations seemed to apply retroactively.
“I have tickets from 2014,” Tartaro adds. “I didn’t have the plate back then.”
Even through all this, Tartaro remained mostly unconcerned. The CPC was just a private company; he could keep working with the DMV to void the fines as they came in, which was an annoyance but not a catastrophe. He had successfully registered his car the previous year despite CPC citations piling up. But just days before Defcon, according to Tartaro, he says he received a notice that the California DMV would not let him renew his registration unless he actually paid some of those fines.
“Now that the DMV is enforcing these tickets that are falsified, it changes everything,” he says. “At the moment, I cannot reregister my vehicle without paying the tickets. But I can’t pay the tickets because it admits guilt, and the minute I admit that it opens me up to all the other tickets. I’m basically in a really bad situation.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/08/14/hacker-gets-12000-in-parking-tickets-after-null-license-plate-trick-backfires/#7c216731c314
https://www.wired.com/story/null-license-plate-landed-one-hacker-ticket-hell/
90 year old farmer who was almost killed by his own tractor sells entire vintage collection of 70 unrestored tractors (thanks Steve!)
His family feared for his life when he was taken to hospital with breaks to his ankles, legs, pelvis and shoulder after a 1960s Fordson Major lurched into life while he was tinkering with its starter motor in March.
The collection of 70 tractors included 55 David Brown models, with the sale highlights being two military aircraft tugs, one made in 1952 which was used on an RAF base in Germany, and one from 1942 which saw service at an East Anglian airfield during the Second World War. Those two lots alone made a total of £14,200.
https://www.edp24.co.uk/business/farming/eddie-thompson-auction-david-brown-vintage-tractors-100-000-1-5767073
The NASA astronaut Corvettes... did you know they were dollar leases, that then went back tot he dealership after a year, and were sold to the unsuspecting public? One collector has found and bought two of them
The dollar lease program ended in 1971. As lease vehicles, the astronaut’s Vettes were returned to the dealership after a year and sold to the public with no mention of their space-related provenance.
Texas collector Danny Reed found the gold and black Corvette that belonged to Apollo 12 lunar module pilot Alan Bean and Worden’s white Corvette (above photo). The gold car has been restored and has earned NCRS awards; the white one is unrestored and shows the wear incurred while it sat in a field.
Both were displayed at the National Corvette Museum in the months before the Apollo 11 anniversary (above photo)
https://www.hotrod.com/articles/astronauts-long-love-affair-chevrolet-corvettes/
https://www.corvettemuseum.org/the-corvettes-of-apollo-12-and-apollo-15/
https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2017/12/apollo-15-astronauts-and-their-rides.html
42 years after selling his 442 back in 1975, he stumbled across his car and was able to buy it again, with just 20,300 miles showing on the odometer
he was driving this in high school.... ain't that nuts to consider your local high school kids driving cars this powerful?
His first car was a 1965 Chevy Impala Super Sport he purchased from a junkyard for a $1,000 cash at age 15—cash he earned working since he was 12.
https://www.hotrod.com/articles/42-years-selling-gets-high-school-1969-hurst-olds-back/
Ted Taylor’s great aunt bought this Dan Gurney Edition 1968 Cougar brand new in Pasadena
“According to the Marti Report, it was ordered for dealer stock,” Taylor says. “I think she went into the dealership, liked it, and bought it.”
Taylor “always loved this car, so when she stopped driving, I bought it from her.” He drove the Cougar daily until parking it in the 1990s, where it sat until he mounted a restoration about five years ago. It’s powered by the original J-code 302 and is loaded with options like air conditioning, power steering, and power brakes.
https://www.hotrod.com/articles/walk-past-ferraris-packards-check-american-big-blocks-ponycars-2019-san-marino-motor-classic/
this Cougar's original owner used to get a lot of tickets, lost his license, and the cop who wrote him most of the tickets bought the car
Dann Allen spent years looking for a car similar to the Dark Ivory Metallic 1969 Cougar four-speed he has as a teen.
In Chicago he found one and then some: a Dark Ivory Metallic four-speed Cougar with a ram-air 428 Cobra Jet V-8 and a convertible top, one of seven built that way per his Marti Report.
The previous owner had it for almost 30 years, “so it had good documents,” Allen says. One more document turned up during the car’s restoration when a UAW voting guide, dated May 1969, was found under the car’s carpet.
https://www.hotrod.com/articles/walk-past-ferraris-packards-check-american-big-blocks-ponycars-2019-san-marino-motor-classic/
Thursday, September 19, 2019
new rule!
Time for a new law.... any cop, sheriff, police, trooper, or patrolman caught on dashcam not stopping at a stop sign or stoplight, not using a turn signal, speeding, etc etc
gets EVERY ticket they EVER wrote for that summarily retroactively dismissed.
If they are going to break some law they wrote tickets for? Then OBVIOUSLY it was not some law that law enforcement officer felt mattered.
Same thing goes for serious stuff, like DUI, cops get busted for DUI, and then anyone they ever arrested for DUI gets their record thrown out. Even gets out of jail.
See how simple that is? Bad cop - no donut. No conviction record showing all those ticket quotas met, in fact, the cop's stats get a lot worse the more the cop is caught on video breaking laws.
That's right, cop breaks the law, everyone they busted for that gets cleared, gets their fines returned, gets their cars out of impound.
Suddenly, we get a system where cops ARE FORCED TO OBEY THE LAWS
and know what else is good? We citizens get to vote for the law to get made, and we drastically outnumber the police. Police don't get a choice in the matter
gets EVERY ticket they EVER wrote for that summarily retroactively dismissed.
If they are going to break some law they wrote tickets for? Then OBVIOUSLY it was not some law that law enforcement officer felt mattered.
Same thing goes for serious stuff, like DUI, cops get busted for DUI, and then anyone they ever arrested for DUI gets their record thrown out. Even gets out of jail.
See how simple that is? Bad cop - no donut. No conviction record showing all those ticket quotas met, in fact, the cop's stats get a lot worse the more the cop is caught on video breaking laws.
That's right, cop breaks the law, everyone they busted for that gets cleared, gets their fines returned, gets their cars out of impound.
Suddenly, we get a system where cops ARE FORCED TO OBEY THE LAWS
and know what else is good? We citizens get to vote for the law to get made, and we drastically outnumber the police. Police don't get a choice in the matter
A Pennsylvania car collector had just sold this '26 Ford, and was retrieving it from his storage unit on Tuesday when it was demolished in a T-bone crash
Police said Long was on Washington Street at Reed Street when a car driven by another man pulled into the Model T's path. After colliding with the sedan, the antique vehicle was pushed into a third vehicle.
Long said the Model T's buyer, whom he did not identify, was driving behind him and witnessed the accident, and took home a similar, but unwrecked car, instead.
https://www.readingeagle.com/news/article/model-t-ford-demolished-in-reading-crash
lovin' the nose art of The Turtle, "P2V-1" Lockheed Neptune, came out in 1946 after the war was over
The third P2V-1, named the TRUCULENT TURTLE, was stripped down, fitted with auxiliary fuel tanks plus an extended nose, and set an unrefueled long distance flight record in September 1947. The TURTLE flew from Perth, Australia, to Columbus, Ohio, with a crew of four Navy officers and a young kangaroo, covering 18,089.3 kilometers (11,235.6 miles) in 55 hours 17 minutes. This record stood until 1962, when an Air Force B-52H flew non-stop from Okinawa to Madrid, Spain, a distance of 20,177 kilometers (12,532.3 miles). The TURTLE is now on display at the US Naval Air Museum in Pensacola, Florida.
The Neptune handled well on takeoff and landing, could climb rapidly for an aircraft of its configuration, and had good single-engine performance. It had a top speed of 485 KPH (300 MPH) and a range of 6,650 kilometers (4,130 miles). The interior was comfortable by the standards of military aircraft of the time, reducing crew fatigue on long ocean patrols. The flight surfaces of the aircraft were fitted with alcohol de-icers, and the wings could provide flotation for a time if the aircraft were ditched at sea.
http://www.axis-and-allies-paintworks.com/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?15236
If you're going to make a commercial, with no purpose, that isn't selling your product, but has a ton of cool old cars? This would probably be it
Several of VW vans, scooters, minis, VW Bugs, and the blue Lotus... most of them show up several times, instead of having to borrow or rent more cars, they used the same ones a couple times, like the Pink 54 Chevy
The 1959 Hagemann Jag Special (there were several cars called the Hagemann Special) was built from the ground up in 1955 by Babe Sulprizio, inspired by the C-Type Jag. The beautiful one-off aluminum body was fabricated by Jack Hagemann.
Sulprizio was the co-owner of United Engineering and Machine and he desperately wanted to own and race a Jaguar C-Type. The problem was they were extremely rare and carried a price tag well out of the means of most individuals. Instead, Sulprizio created his own version of the C-Type
Suspension and brakes were mostly Jaguar. Sulprizio built the chassis to take one of the new Chevy 265 V-8's but the local Chevrolet assembly plant in Oakland refused to sell him one without a car around it, so he installed a 302 GMC ('Jimmy') 6. After the Jimmy failed in its first race, it was replaced by a 3.4-liter Jag DOHC power plant from an XK 120. The brakes were originally drums, but after Laurie's first race in the car at Laguna Seca in 1976 (no brakes by the sixth lap), they were replaced with XK 150 discs. The suspension utilizes longitudinal torsion bars and the differential is located with a transverse torsion bar connected to one side of the chassis.
Jack Hagemann was best known for building aluminium racing car bodies, demonstrating the rapid professional evolution of locally-built Specials, during the first five years of sports car racing in California.
Hagemann developed his metal shaping skills during WWII at the Alameda Naval Air Station. He had already designed and built a number of early 1950s northern California Specials with strikingly beautiful alloy bodies.
The Hagemann Chrysler Special was built for amateur racer John Barneson by Jack Hagemann of San Leandro, California. Hydroplane and race engine builder George Nauro was chosen to build the powerful Chrysler 300 Hemi motor.
https://www.conceptcarz.com/profile/3721,15021/1955-hagemann-special.aspx
https://www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/z15021/hagemann-special.aspx
http://www.tamsoldracecarsite.net/bbt00920010.html
http://www.dmtrg.com/don-blenderman-1955-murphy-kurtis-500sx/
http://www.dmtrg.com/a-homepage-section/news-and-blog/blog/page/3/
https://www.ultimatecarpage.com/cg/7209/Hagemann-Sutton-Special.html
origin of the lawnmower, thanks to Guy Martin! 1830 design, and it's still a basic simple design in use
"a pipe and slippers sorta fella, I mean, he only had one hand, and an Opium habit, so, he didn't have much choice in the matter"
And THAT is just ONE reason I love Guy Martin... what a hoot!
another of the tiny jeeps used on the flightline and aircraft carriers, and a Douglas SkyKnight
http://www.axis-and-allies-paintworks.com/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?15473
Looks like a 3 wheeler...
https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2017/03/apu-jeeps-in-action-korean-war-carrier.html wow, it's been about 2.5 years since I posted one of these 3 wheeler Jeeps!
it's been a while since I've posted about them, as I recall they were for getting an auxiliary generator up to the planes for electrical power
https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2017/03/skip-to-150-mark-to-start-and-check-out.html
John Glenn's F 86, the "MiG Mad Marine" jet he flew in the Korean War, U.S. Air Force 25th Interceptor Squadron, 51st Fighter Interceptor Group, at K13, Suwon, Korea.
While on temporary duty with the Air Force squadron, Glenn flew the North American Aviation F-86F Sabre air superiority fighter. He shot down all three MiG fighters with F-86F-30-NA serial number 52-4584. His previous victories were on 12 July and 19 July, 1953, also against MiG-15 fighters.
Major Glenn had painted the names of his wife and two children, “Lyn Annie Dave,” on the nose of his airplane, but after being heard complaining that there “weren’t enough MiGs,” he came out one morning to find MIG MAD MARINE painted on the Sabre’s side.
http://www.axis-and-allies-paintworks.com/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?354
https://kb.osu.edu/handle/1811/50777
https://www.flickr.com/photos/142347513@N03/26498264257
https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/tag/mig-mad-marine/
Shawn spent 28 years flying helicopters, and when it came time to upgrade his golf cart, there was no question that it would be a Cobra Gunship. (thanks Rick!)
Shawn, who earned two Purple Hearts, spent about 13 months building the specialized cart
Shawn said it’s a fitting way to pay tribute to the more than 40,000 helicopter pilots who flew in Southeast Asia, as well as the more than 2,000 aviators and 2,500-plus crewmembers who died serving their country.
https://www.villages-news.com/2019/09/18/vietnam-helicopter-pilot-known-for-cobra-golf-cart-makes-most-of-honor-flight-experience/
https://www.villages-news.com/2019/02/05/villager-pays-tribute-to-fellow-army-helicopter-pilots-with-specialized-golf-cart/
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
with only 25k miles and a few speeding tickets this 4 speed Hemi Road Runner (1 of 234) was parked in a field because the insurance had jumped to 150 per month (in 1978 dollars)... but 39 years went by before it was pulled out to get restored
the car had been rolled down the hill from the house and garage when the 1990 fires swept through, and spent the last 17 years sitting here, sinking in, and being used by the neighborhood kids as a supply of glass to shoot out with their bb guns
the hemi was in the garage at the time, but survived and was still in good enough condition to be rebuilt... the valve covers and air filter housing were in the trunk all these years
because it was parked in California, it survived nearly 4 decades without much rusting
https://www.hotrod.com/articles/1969-plymouth-road-runner-buried-treasure/
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