https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=995224655968965&set=a.599363832221718
Thursday, December 26, 2024
back in April I posted a Great Dale House Car 65 Mercury, and just came across this 66 Coronet Great Dale House Car
Pro Rock Engineering is the winner of the King Builder of the 2024 IMX (Indonesia Modifications Expo) contest in Indonesia! Thank you DD29 for letting me know about this!
This is NOGO BONDO a masterpiece based on Toyota Dyna highly modified by MakingCars.id ProRockEngineering built in just 2 months, and succeeded in becoming the winner at IMX 2024
2.5 months from start to finish!
https://www.instagram.com/prorockengineering/reel/DAr8etsPLd6/
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thank you Kim S for the Xmas Card, and for ringing my tip cup!
I even posted the Hopper's Nighthawks painting once!
Wednesday, December 25, 2024
I just learned of the Three Oaks Spokes Club’s Bicycle Museum
Currently, 14 of the club’s 35 historical bikes are on display.
First and foremost is the 1860s-era “Boneshaker,” also known as a Velocipede, which rode on a surprisingly modern set of two similar-sized wheels.
A miniature pedal-powered Jim-Dandy Surrey (complete with fringe on the top) that was given away as a prize on the 1950s TV show “Kids Say the Darndest Things” starring Art Linkletter also holds a prominent place in the museum.
One rare model that remains on loan to the museum (and is now on display) is a side-by-side “Fox Companion” tandem dating from the 1890s owned by Maureen and Kenneth Juranek.
The Three Oaks Spokes Club also has a new set of wheels in its club house — a bright red hay wagon Volstorf said will be used after monthly club rides and events such as the annual Flag Day Parade (complete with some of the antique bikes) and, of course, Apple Cider Century.
“Flag Day weekend we’ll probably give rides from here around town, taking them to the distillery and the Acorn Theater and Timbertown — like a 15-minute tour of Three Oaks. And then Apple Cider time, the same thing. Since they camp out at Watkins Park, we’ll pick them up and take them to the school and then to the ice cream social and around that same route.”
He said the 8,000-pound undercarriage was assembled by Amish craftsmen in Shipshewana, Indiana, with Dave Thomas of G.L. Builders constructing the upper portion, which includes seating.
https://www.harborcountry-news.com/news/bigger-better-three-oaks-bicycle-museum-taking-shape/article_0329b29c-da9d-5010-b784-749399523d63.html
I was just looking through the "train" posts to find a McKeen (I forgot what they were called) and wow, if you ever want to remember WHY you look at this blog, but forgot, try looking through just one favorite topic for a couple minutes.
Anyway, while looking through the train posts, I was simply amazed at the variety of trains I've posted, the stories, photos, videos, art, and history.
If you want to rediscover what amazing visual and engineering accomplishments have been made, and photographic too, plus crazy cool bridges, engines, etc... I can sure recommend a couple minutes just browsing https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/train
Just keep in mind, the story of the girl in the blue dress who died on Christmas Eve is a real tear jerker. Avoid that unless you have kleenex handy, or need to prep to act out a scene where you must cry a lot on stage or while making a movie. That's one of the pitfalls of posting so much, I've forgotten most all of it, and some posts are just ready to stab you in the heart. Hell, her story should be a "Lifetime Channel Hallmark movie"
Anyway, back to this image, I just came across it on a facebook page of Mark On Railroad History https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61560323341975
(sung to the song "Do you want to build a snowman?") Do you want to build a race car? Someone bought a teams parts bins, and wants all this junk to find a new home for 5k
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I bet I could find enough stuff on Facebook marketplace to post about all day long
Tuesday, December 24, 2024
vintage how the flames get painted photo
before the less sticky tapes were created is my guess... ever use drafting tape or chart tape? Or the blue stuff that is all over home DIY projects now? All of those are so much more pleasant to work with than the typical masking tape. That stuff left a lot of residue behind, WHEN it would peel off simple and easy, and that didn't happen very often
Jurors awarded $287 million earlier this year to a guy who sued Harley Davidson
Morris and his partner Pam bought a trike motorcycle from Harley-Davidson.
“With the two of us getting older we thought it would be safer, instead of sitting on two wheels, there’s three,” Morris said.
The crash that followed injured Pam’s hand and ankle, but Morris walked away relatively unscathed.
The trike was a mess.
Morris got the bike fixed by at a local Harley-Davidson dealership and asked the company to pay their medical bills.
They refused.
Around this time, Harley-Davidson authorized a recall of certain trikes for a traction control issue.
Then, on June 6, 2020, Morris and Pam were on the trike when, “again suddenly, inexplicably, unexpectedly and without warning malfunctioned and failed causing the vehicle to swerve into the opposite lane of travel and off the roadway where it struck an embankment and overturned.”
“(People who saw it said the trike) flipped, rolled several times, threw us off. (Pam) was killed at that point."
The trike was a mess.
Morris got the bike fixed by at a local Harley-Davidson dealership and asked the company to pay their medical bills.
They refused.
Around this time, Harley-Davidson authorized a recall of certain trikes for a traction control issue.
Then, on June 6, 2020, Morris and Pam were on the trike when, “again suddenly, inexplicably, unexpectedly and without warning malfunctioned and failed causing the vehicle to swerve into the opposite lane of travel and off the roadway where it struck an embankment and overturned.”
“(People who saw it said the trike) flipped, rolled several times, threw us off. (Pam) was killed at that point."
“I did not sue them for money,” he said. “I sued them to be held accountable and do what was right for the people who buy and use their equipment.”
Jurors agreed with that claim and awarded Morris and Pam’s family $287 million
When asked why he didn’t settle, Morris said, “They were so arrogant about doing anything and blaming it all on me, they went to the point to sue me claiming I have a death wish and wanted to kill us.”
Jurors agreed with that claim and awarded Morris and Pam’s family $287 million
When asked why he didn’t settle, Morris said, “They were so arrogant about doing anything and blaming it all on me, they went to the point to sue me claiming I have a death wish and wanted to kill us.”
trivia
The idea for the Moylan Arrow came from former Ford engineer Jim Moylan, who found himself rather frustrated with the fact that there wasn’t a simple way to know which side of a vehicle the gas tank was located on
The Moylan Arrow made so much sense, in fact, that other automotive manufacturers also adopted it, and today, it’s hard to imagine a world where this little helpful indicator didn’t exist.
A lot of us simply know our gas tank filler neck is behind the license plate, but somewhere around 1962 some cars started getting filler necks where race track pit crews could fill the tanks fast from the side of the race car.
A Christmas present to people who own vehicles on the East coast, a chop shop was shut down in Orangeburg, South Carolina
The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) notes that the man was receiving stolen vehicles from other areas – including Kernersville, North Carolina, Polk County, Georgia, and Polk County, Florida – and falsifying their VINs.
Interestingly, SLED found nothing but stolen Blue Oval trucks at the alleged chop shop – including Ford Super Duty F-250, F-350, and F-450s – some of which were titled as different models. The VINs displayed on those Ford trucks were “falsified with the intent to conceal the true VIN,” according to police. Following his arrest, the man has now been charged with two counts of receiving, possessing, concealing, selling, or disposing of a stolen vehicle, two counts of falsifying a Vehicle Identification Number, and operating a chop shop.
https://fordauthority.com/2024/12/man-arrested-after-using-stolen-ford-trucks-to-run-chop-shop/
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