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Sunday, February 08, 2026
Col. Sam McLaughlin drove his McLaughlin buggy to his office at GM Oshawa during the gas rationing days of WW2.
McLaughlin Motor Car Company Limited was a Canadian manufacturer of automobiles headquartered in Oshawa, Ontario.
Founded by Robert McLaughlin, it once was the largest carriage manufacturing factory in the British Empire.
Robert McLaughlin founded the McLaughlin Carriage Company in Enniskillen, Ontario, in 1869. McLaughlin soon moved the company to Oshawa, a larger city a few miles away.
Around 1905, Robert's son Sam started building cars, and is most commonly associated with the McLaughlin-Buicks, it started out in car manufacturing building 154 of them in 1907.
In 1907, Sam McLaughlin, son of Robert, created the McLaughlin Motor Car Co. after visiting the United States and discovering that automobiles were becoming a modern luxury.
It was after this tour that R. S. McLaughlin decided to use Buick engines and chassis with McLaughlin bodies to create the McLaughlin-Buick automobile.
In 1915, the Chevrolet Motor Car Co. of Canada was formed.
In 1918, McLaughlin and Chevrolet merged with General Motors to create General Motors of Canada.
I went far more in depth in https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2018/08/mclaughlin-buicks-1st-ive-heard-of-them.html
https://industryinoshawa.wordpress.com/transport/mclaughlin-motor-car-company/https://www.hagerty.com/media/opinion/the-elsinore-files/mclaughlin-canada-gm-descendant
I'm not picking up on why have the jump seats on this 1912 Cole. But treadless tires on the snowy roads? That must have been about useless
I wonder what the reason was to carry the passengers. That strikes me as an uncomfortable ride
Saturday, February 07, 2026
Madison Square Garden 1965
something to spread water over the ice to smooth it down at 1/2 time? Must be
I was way off on my guess of what this is supposed to mean, I was on the wrong track, and was thinking it has something to do with BMW, like a name of a German city. Nope.
lol, well, I went with the BMW thing, and maybe was reading too much into the BMW colors on the plate, and Nürburgring, with the BNG at the end of the plate, and HM B G could be Hamburg... and then I was stuck thinking about German city names
Turns out, it was all California granola instead, because for unknown reasons, this beemer owner wants you to know they are a human being.
here's an upclose look at the cheap bullshit parts Hyundai built my Veloster cooling system with, that began leaking from bullshit cheap manufacturing process that was likely designed to fail after the warranty was over, so car owners were likely to get the dealerships to do repairs
the pipe nipple was soldered into the manifold part. That does not hold up for more than 103,000 miles and 10 years. The solder oxidized and failed between the nipple and the manifold (or whatever that part is called) and I think it was part of the heater bypass
this failed at about the time the radiator cracked, and so did the upper radiator support bracket. 3 parts of the cooling system broke at the same time, at 10 years and 103000 miles.
just how bad did I hit a pot hole to break this bracket and crack the radiator? I do not know
seen on the 15 yesterday
I rarely see 4x4s around here, not the typical snow country type, around here I usually see the rock crawlers
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After the 1989 Shelby Shadow CSX-VNT, Shelby Automobiles never built another production car at their facility. Number 001 of 500 Shelby kept for himself and put 7000 miles on
There are unique touches that show the California staff were having fun with the old man. On a normal Shadow, the word Shadow is inset into the dash. On Shelby cars, that badge says Shelby. "On this car it actually has neither the shadow badge nor the Shelby badge. It has a Plymouth Sundance badge,"
1929 was the one year car makers seemed to compete to make the nicest instrument board (see the Hudson and Essex for other examples)
this electric dirt bike rider in New York decided to trek out in the snow storm, and get iconic photos of the landmarks, with his bike
He took video of the adventure if you want to check out 10 minutes of riding around in the snowy city streets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9H2NF92gPU
Friday, February 06, 2026
The Grand Tour’s new hosts are announced, but does it even matter? They can't replace Hammond, Clarkson and May. Top Gear tried that, and failed, twice.
YouTubers Thomas Holland and James Engelsman, best known for their motoring content, as well as social media star and train enthusiast Francis Bourgeois, will front the revamped version of the Prime Video series.
Holland and Engelsman are the duo behind Throttle House, a popular automotive YouTube channel known for its car reviews and track tests.
Holland joked: “When I first heard they were rebooting The Grand Tour and replacing Clarkson Hammond and May, I said, ‘Only a moron would take that job.’”
Holland and Engelsman are the duo behind Throttle House, a popular automotive YouTube channel known for its car reviews and track tests.
Holland joked: “When I first heard they were rebooting The Grand Tour and replacing Clarkson Hammond and May, I said, ‘Only a moron would take that job.’”
1924 Lanchester 40HP Coronation Coach made for the Sir Jai Prabhakar Singh, Maharaja of the 15 gun salute state of Alwar. so popular that it was featured in the American magazine ‘Popular Mechanics’ of October 1924.
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