Thursday, November 12, 2026
every now and then, someone happens to be in the background of a photo, and though it's rare, most people never notice. So here's a photo I took, and I leave it to you to see if you want to look and see
A moment later he (and a couple PR handlers ) walked right by. I was surprised the people in the area weren't mobbing him for autographs. Not a single person spoke up, walked over to get in his way, nothing. With his lifetime celebrity and icon status (he's even a Goodwood USA legend)
there were a surprising amount of 80s Camaros at SEMA this year. Of course there are a lot of 69 Camaros... but the 2nd and 3rd gen don't get upgraded nearly as much
and this one 70s Camaro
very cool to see this flattened oval exhaust
fwiw... the coolest magazine I've seen ... is this issue number one of Dusty Times, in a leather cover! THAT is really damn classy
and fwiw the back of issue 2 has a collection of vintage patches
just a cool photo
He was in the 401st Bomb Group out of Deenthorpe.
He met his future wife while he was over there, she was one of many war brides that made the trip to the U.S. He passed away at 100 years old, still living in the house they bought in 1948
Is there a legal way for the government to use the photo of a person, without their permission, on license plates and registration? Puerto Rico is certain they CAN, and had Roberto Clemente on their license plate. His sons took their case to the Supreme Court
The US Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a challenge by Roberto Clemente's sons to Puerto Rico's use of the baseball great's image on commemorative license plates and vehicle registration tags, which they alleged violates constitutional protections against government taking of trademark rights.
Clemente, a Puerto Rico native, played for Major League Baseball's Pittsburgh Pirates for 18 seasons from 1955 to 1972. He was a 15-time All-Star right fielder and two-time World Series champion in a career that earned him induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame and a statue outside the team's stadium. He died at age 38 in a 1972 airplane crash while delivering humanitarian aid to earthquake victims in Nicaragua.
The suit, which claimed the use of the likeness generated $15 million for Puerto Rico, seeks to block any use of their father's likeness on license plates and tags and obtain $45 million in damages and $3.15 million in compensation for trademark infringement.
Wednesday, November 11, 2026
Larry Bell's donation in 1947 of the Bell Model 47 helicopter (registration NC-3H, serial number 5) to the Burgard Vocational High School Aviation Department in Buffalo, New York to train future helicopter mechanics.. The 5th Bell Model 47 ever built, one of the oldest surviving Bell helicopters in the world.
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