Saturday, January 08, 2011
great innovation for new vehicles, the back up camera shown in the rear view mirror
only appears when the vehicle is in reverse
1909 Babcock electric brougham... looks like a mechanized stage coach to me
Above is the factory brochure image, below is the corner of the street photo from Shorpy
Friday, January 07, 2011
Canadian colonization advertising vehicle... looking like a streetcar on a truck chassis
Seems the big wide open plains of the Candian west needed farmers, and they used this to spread the word. Just study that box of a body and let me know if it's anything but a one off single purpose built vehiclefrom http://www.shorpy.com/
Old tour bus, 1908
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Thursday, January 06, 2011
Lions Drag Strip free souvenir program, the Drag Scoop, Feb 7, 1970 (selected pages that aren't full of classifieds)
Thanks to my friends Tris and Terry for letting me borrow this to share with all of youCool and unusual trucks found on Big Lorry Blog
An older semi in Brazil, and I like the grill, full length and looking like a 1940's car design
Cool.
Looks like the back wheels also steer
Looks like water cannons on top, and armor covering the back
This and the last photo in this gallery are both 4 wheels under the cab.
It seems similar to an F.A.R. http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/01/three-wheeled-tractor-trailer-rig.html but definitly not similar to the Scammell or the Tempo, so it seems there might have been another 3 wheel delivery that I haven't learned about yet.
Mighty powerful little trailer mover
Yuck, very ugly, but does it have this design because that allows it to go under the trailers for reversing the trailer into a loading dock?
Best advertising on a trailer rig I've seen in a while
Of the 12 futurliners built, 8 exist, and one is getting restored in Sweden, here is a dedicated website to it's 4 year, 10 million dollar, resto
the website is in Swedish, but no problem from Google to translate to your language, just switch to Google Chrome for a web browser, and put http://www.classicmotor.se/futurliner/ in the address bar, and once the page loads... the browser will pop up a small bar at the top of the page and ask you if you want it translated. Simple. I recommend switching to Google Chrome, because lately Windows has not worked at translating for meWednesday, January 05, 2011
Bang Shift finds really cool drag racing, here's a trio of awesome
Hayden Proffitt and the funny car Rebel. Ya gotta hand it to anyone who looks at the brick aerodynamics and says they'll make it win.
EJ Potter, that madman
Turbo Stang, powered by a drag axle from Turbonique and this is the first time I've seen this photo.. awesomeFor lots of dragracing photos and videos, go see the tremendous coverage at Bang Shift http://www.bangshift.com/blog/
Bigger hammer theory in practice, the building of Trabant cars in the 1980's
Skip the first 22 seconds, it's boring, after that they get to hammering for proper fitment
If you haven't heard of the bigger hammer theory, you aren't a submariner or a mechanic. The theory is this; if it doesn't work, hit it with a hammer (known in scientific circles as mechanical agitation (thank you XO Joachim) ) if it doesn't work after hitting it with a hammer, hit it with a bigger hammer. If it still doesn't work, replace it... it's broke.
video from http://autozine.com.br/video/tecnologia-alema-oriental
Damn, a Veyron running the Gumball, that's going to go through a lot of gas
From http://autozine.com.br/eventos/gumball-3000-2010-onde-os-ricos-batem-pegaWhen running full speed, the fuel lasts about 12 minutes, thats about 60 miles at about 250 mph, and few freeways are going to give that type of high speed opportunity, but this is a gas guzzling beast even if you half the speed (125mph) and double the distance and time before you have to fill up again.
Somebody got bored with their Rolls Centurion (half million dollars), kicked it to the gutter. Like I've said before, rich people are stupid
Notice that this is the same car below, same licence plates. 
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