Just A Car Guy
Cool things with wheels since 2006
Wednesday, October 04, 2023
Dave MacDonald's undersized Corvette? Dave MacDonald and team owner Jim Simpson collaborated with legendary car builder Max Balchowsky (Old Yeller fame) to create a custom one-off lightweight racer called the Corvette Special / Old Yeller X.
do you remember when a couple guys could have a lot of fun with junkyard parts making a car raceworthy, and together, could get a truck and trailer to bring it to the track for a fun weekend?
Seriously.
Tuesday, October 03, 2023
Banksy has featured shopping carts a lot more than I realized
In another artwork, Banksy has used the shopping trolley as a symbol for destructive and wasteful capitalism: Show Me the Monet features two discarded shopping trolleys thrown into Claude Monet’s famous waterlily pond at Giverny.
Though Banksy has faithfully captured the impressionist style of the original masterpiece, the jarring addition of two upturned shopping trolleys reflects how damaging consumer culture can be to the beautiful natural world.
In 2005, the British Museum in London discovered a mock-cave painting of a man pushing a trolley among their exhibits, complete with a fake title plaque and ID number. The piece was created using black marker pen on stone, and went unnoticed for 3 days, only being discovered after the prank was announced by Banksy via Twitter.
One of Banksy's most famous social comments was his artwork, Shop Till You Drop, painted in November 2011 on the side of an office building on Bruton Lane in London's West End. It is also known as the “Falling Shopper” and depicts a woman falling from the top of a building, clutching a shopping trolley containing a few items. His aim was to point out the perils of consumerism.
Using scaffolding and a tarpaulin to make sure he wasn't caught in the act; he painted the graffiti in daylight. It was painted more than two storeys up and the tarpaulin made it appear that renovation work was taking place on the office block.
Scaffolding was set up at some point on Saturday 19th November by two men who looked like construction workers. Once the scaffolding was erected, tarpaulins were draped over it. At around 3pm on Sunday 20th November, the workers went back and began taking the scaffolding down.
By 5pm that day, all of the scaffolding had been removed and passers-by realised Banksy had stopped by and created his latest graffiti, which was quickly dubbed, Shop Till You Drop.
Art critics believe the woman is depicted as contributing to the big corporations, but the shopping cart is pulling her down, making it a controlling authority. Shop Till You Drop is still visible today, although it has become quite damaged over the years.
I wonder why more hotels aren't teaming up with classic car rental businesses. The Sunset Tower in Hollywood has partnered Hollywood Classic Cars so guests can go cruising in a 68 Mercedes 280, a 67 Porsche 912, a 69 Ford Torino GT, a 82 Rolls Royce, and a 86 Mercedes 560
Monday, October 02, 2023
videos taken Monday show self-driving cars stopped and blocking an intersection in Houston
Investigative journalist Edward Niedermeyer discovered that America's largest EV charging station, the Harris Ranch station, is powered by diesel generators hidden behind a Shell station.
Investigative journalist Edward Niedermeyer discovered that the station was powered by diesel generators hidden behind a Shell station. Reporters at SF Gate tried to find out how much of the station's electricity was from the generators, but couldn’t get a response from Tesla.
The station isn’t connected to any dedicated solar farms, which means that absent the diesel generators, the station is powered by California’s grid.
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/mondays-energy-absurdity-americas
a museum I haven't heard of until now, the FWD Seagrave museum, in Clintonville Wisconsin
Sunday, October 01, 2023
intriguing way to clean out a semi trucks air filter
A fire cracker popped into an air filter, that is sitting on the ground, and BOOM! Small blast of the fire cracker pushes all the dirt OUT of the air filter
Saturday, September 30, 2023
did you ever hear about I-90? And the golden stripe?
In 2006 this stretch of interstate had to be repaved and most of the golden panels were paved over.