Saturday, August 09, 2014
In the news recently, a 6 yr old took off on his ATV, and got traffic on the Bronx River Parkway messed up.
A 6-year-old boy zoomed down the Bronx River Parkway on a toy ATV this past Sunday night and was saved when some quick-thinking motorists slowed him down.
Westchester Police said the tyke was riding the toy car at a park in Mount Vernon at around 7 p.m. when he slipped away from relatives who were watching him. After driving some 10 blocks to the parkway's Oak St. entrance ramp, the boy pulled onto the expressway heading north and puttered along in the right lane, cops said. A short time later, as frantic family members searched for the boy, cops began getting calls about a child driving in traffic. Meanwhile, three drivers formed a mobile wall around the boy to protect him and slow him down. One of them eventually jumped out and pulled the boy and his toy onto the shoulder, cops said.
Image and text from http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/boy-6-rides-toy-atv-bronx-river-parkway-article-1.1891287
Friday, August 08, 2014
I just learned of an Airstream Rooftop park in Cape Town South Africa, where they rent the airstreams out as hotel rooms
From what I gather from their website, the 7 Airstreams are all restored to an individual interior design theme, and are on the roof of the Grand Daddy Boutique Hotel.
Check out the slide show of the interiors on http://www.granddaddy.co.za/sleep/airstream_rooftop_trailer_park/
PT Cruiser and Chevy HHR were both designed by the same guy
Chevy HHR Wikipedia page:
The vehicle's design was inspired by the mid-1940s Chevrolet cars and trucks, specifically the 1947 Chevrolet Suburban and Advance Design pickups, with large, square fender flares and a hemispherical grille. The design of the HHR has been credited to Bryan Nesbitt who was a former designer at Chrysler where he was the lead designer of the Chrysler PT Cruiser. Nesbitt was recruited by GM to join its design staff and served for a time as the chief designer of the Chevrolet brand.
PT Cruiser Wikiepedia page:The vehicle's design was inspired by the mid-1940s Chevrolet cars and trucks, specifically the 1947 Chevrolet Suburban and Advance Design pickups, with large, square fender flares and a hemispherical grille. The design of the HHR has been credited to Bryan Nesbitt who was a former designer at Chrysler where he was the lead designer of the Chrysler PT Cruiser. Nesbitt was recruited by GM to join its design staff and served for a time as the chief designer of the Chevrolet brand.
The Chrysler PT Cruiser is a retro styled compact automobile launched by Chrysler as a 5-door hatchback in early 2000 (for the 2001 model year)
Originally conceived as a Plymouth model, the PT Cruiser received the Chrysler nameplate on introduction in anticipation of the 2001 discontinuation of the Plymouth brand. The PT Cruiser was designed by Bryan Nesbitt, who later also styled the Chevrolet HHR.
The name "PT Cruiser" includes the initialism PT, standing for "Personal Transport" and designating the car's platform as well as production code. Intended to evoke an old gangster getaway car or a street rod based on a 1930s car, the 2000 PT Cruiser grew out of a collaboration among Robert A. Lutz, who was an executive at Chrysler at the time, Bryan Nesbitt, a designer, as well as Dr. Clotaire Rapaille
In 2001 Car and Driver acknowledged the PT Cruiser on its Ten Best list and the PT Cruiser also won the North American Car of the Year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_PT_Cruiser
Thursday, August 07, 2014
a Lego designer made a Batman Tumbler
Found on http://www.carcrushing.com/batman-lego-tumbler/
This video put a smile on my face, so I'm sharing it.
if you're in a wheelchair, and rich, this might tempt you to go offroading
Found on http://www.carcrushing.com/half-wheelchair-half-tank/ and the company website: http://derziesel.com/wordpress/?lang=en and it has distributors in Sweden, Italy, and Norway among other countries
If off roading conjures up some woodsy muddy area, it's not meant to, off road means places like the beach also:
What is the advantage over an ATV 4 wheeler? Hmmm... maybe the seat, the size, it's battery powered not gas, and the caterpillar tracks. No sarcasm, just thinking outloud
the variety of ways a Harley with a sidecar were used
Above says Ben Walker and the City Bloodhounds, Fort Smith Arkansas
All found on http://harleydavidsonfactoryphotos.tumblr.com/
Wednesday, August 06, 2014
so I was getting through a parking lot when I come to this car parked in the lane, not in a parking spot...
