Sunday, October 18, 2026
After more than 40 years operating Corvette Specialty in San Diego, owner Dave Meyer is retiring, and auctioning off the business assets
This liquidation auction features 1966, 1971, and 1993 Corvettes, a drag car, and a 2002 Buick, along with tools, shop equipment, Corvette parts, and automotive accessories from his longtime service and parts business.
https://calauctions.com/auctions/V2ofF8RU8IqUeSPkGE3H/a/Corvette-Specialty-Service-and-Parts
currently, as of Oct 18th, there is nothing on the auction website
Saturday, October 17, 2026
Frog Hollow Station near Boyertown, is a brand new structure built for the Colebrookdale Railroad tourist line from a design Frank Furness drew for the Philadelphia & Reading RR in November 1883.
The P&R built this design at Gorgas Lane, Bycot, and Noble, but none of those survived the 20th century.
from the Nobody's Fool music video by Cinderella, made way back in 1986 - a 1957 Vespa 400 / Autobianchi Bianchina
What the hell is the exhaust pipe doing on the side of the car?
a stupid pointless video from the middle of music video heights, when bands knew they had to make one, but had no damn clue what the hell they were trying to accomplish with them. ZZ Top had it figured out, and Van Halen with Hot For Teacher, but so damn many were just video recordings of concert footage, or a studio recording of the band lip syncing to the music, wasting an opportunity to do a good 4 minute mini movie
The Ford GT70 rally car in action during the Goodwood Festival of Speed, circa 2002, Five hundred customer cars were planned for but only six were built.
this fiberglass Lancia Stratos Zero un-powered prop car was in the 1988 film Moonwalker, the Michael Jackson musical movie, with Joe Pesci... was eventually sold to English car designer Andy Saunders who put the bodywork over the chassis, powertrain, and running gear from another Gandini/Bertone collaboration—a Fiat X1/9.
Cornered in an alley by Joe Pesci and assorted thugs, Jackson made good use of the Stratos Zero’s wedge shape to punt several angry gangsters skyward while making his escape, all while “Smooth Criminal” played in the background.
Skip to minute 50 of the video
the gravel is a bit deep, and the nose on that race car is a good plow
They stopped about here, as the plowing had put about a 1000 pounds of gravel on the front of the car, and the TWO trucks were done making forward progress
Friday, October 16, 2026
i just came across a remarkable thing... I hope you get a kick out of it
I found a couple examples of Kim Jung Gi being photographed while drawing a scene, that the photographer was also able to get a picture of and keep them together. The master at work, and what he drew compared to a photo of the scene he was drawing
I don't think I'm wrong in describing him as incomparable. He died at age 43 of a heart attack, and the world lost a person who had magic hands
Nascar is building 80 cars for the the sequel to Days Of Thunder, NASCAR CEO Steve O’Donnell mentioned in a podcast-style interview
I will tell you, we’re producing probably over 80 race cars that are going to be part of this. Some we don’t expect to be back, that they’ll be wrecked.”
“You look at this long term of, OK, you’ve got race cars, some of them have been wrecked in the movie. Where can we leave these?” the CEO said in the Oct. 13 interview. “It’s an opportunity for us across the board.”
The new “Days of Thunder” is reportedly scheduled to start filming in March 2027. It is set to release in theaters on June 2, 2028.
https://www.wbtv.com/2026/10/15/nascar-building-80-cars-new-movie-starring-famous-actor/
Thursday, October 15, 2026
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
St. Thomas Dragway on July 1st, 1963, of Jack "Skinny" Fuche in the 427 powered B/FX Ford F-100XL,
The truck was the brainchild of a couple of Ford Truck Division executives and Fuche along with Dearborn Steel Tube owner Andy Hotton.
St. Thomas was one of the ten drag strips the truck made an appearance at prior to the NHRA Nationals at Indy.
After the 1963 Nationals, the truck was sold to Jack Whitby, owner of Friendly Ford in Wilmington Delaware.
the below 427 F-100 was the one originally built by Bob Ford for a customer of theirs. Dave Lyall campaigned that truck briefly in 1964 in B/FX.
A hospital has taken delivery of a state-of-the-art surgical robot, the da Vinci Five robot, thanks to a donation from Gordon Murray, who created the McLaren F1 supercar in 1992
"This machinery fascinated the engineer in me," he said. "It's not anywhere near as intrusive as the operation used to be, and the recovery times are much quicker."
Having been operated on by the da Vinci Xi, he said the five model he was donating had "150 improvements".
"There's no better way of saying thank you to the team than donating one of these," he added.
"Initially I thought I'd leave a donation in my will and then I thought 'it can start saving people now'."
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