Saturday, March 26, 2016
How about a comic book where a train engineer is being nagged by a ghost? Why? Well, he was operating the 4:43 out of Baltimore to D.C. when she was run over by his train. Now, she won't let him be, and he's going to counseling!
issue one is 26 pages, no ads through the story, and then leaves me wondering... well, how's this end?
This is a 6 issue comedy about two people who wouldn't like each other under normal circumstances, much less paranormal, and they have to work together just to figure out how to ever get clear of each other
M.C. was feeling pretty good about his brand new job as a DARC train engineer, when the absolute worst happens his very first day: he hits a woman walking alone on the tracks. Occupational hazard? Sure. But worker's comp doesn't cover haunting! M.C. is desperate to figure out if Nina is truly a ghost, or just a really annoying figment of his guilty conscience.
the video at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/RedStyloMedia/crossing-2-and-3-new-issues-in-this-paranormal-ser tells a little bit more
issue one, and ussue two's first 6 pages can be seen at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/RedStyloMedia/crossing-2-and-3-new-issues-in-this-paranormal-ser
Friday, March 25, 2016
pace car for the 1971 Dixie 500, a convertible 71 Barracuda
Richard Petty wins his 134th race in the Dixie 500 at Atlanta International Raceway (now Atlanta Motor Speedway). With the win, he becomes the first NASCAR driver to top $1 million in career earnings.
http://bench-racing.blogspot.com/2011/08/august-1-this-day-in-petty-history-part.html
and this is the only image of it so far that I can find. If this is one of the 7 or whatever, hemi 4 speed Barracudas that drive Barrett Jackson auction goers crazy, that would be pretty cool to discover it paced a Nascar race
Barney Oldfield, 1917, Pomona but not racing, installing road signs
Wikipedia doesn't have a good page for him, all it says about 1917 is:
In June 1917 he used his Golden Submarine to beat fellow racing legend Ralph DePalma in a series of 10- to 25-mile (40 km) match races at Milwaukee. He retired from racing in 1918, but continued to tour and make movies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_Oldfield
A trucker claims that a railroad trestle is lower than the sign says (14 foot) after he became wedged underneath it in Marysville, California.
Driver Rigoberto Corona was traveling north on Highway 70 when he struck a train trestle marked 14 feet 1 inch around noon yesterday.
Did anyone have the brains to measure it after the impact, and see what the height of the truck, and the height of the bridge, factually are? No.
http://cdllife.com/2016/top-trucking-news/featured/trucker-questions-height-of-trestle-after-becoming-wedged-underneath/
http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2016/03/24/big-rig-gets-stuck-under-train-trestle-in-marysville-highway-70-blocked/#comments
Manny's 1972 Polara
This has a great big "taking up your space, whatt'ya gonna do about it" vibe. Love it!
Thanks Manny!
1975 Dodge Big Horn semi
they frequently find cool things over at Bang Shift http://bangshift.com/bangshiftxl/ebay-find-this-1974-dodge-big-horn-semi-truck-is-a-very-rare-and-very-cool-find/
Super Camanjas.. yeah, what in the hell are Camanjas? According to Google and Bing, the word does not exist
And that my friends, is why I subscribe to Hot Rod Delux. Only place in the world to learn cool stuff, even if it's a mystery. I love Hitchcock movies and mysteries too.
Thursday, March 24, 2016
AMT Pirahna
AMT’s impressive promotional package included model kits of both the race car and the road car in stores, plus full-page, four-color ads of Stevens in action in Car Craft and other major magazines. Additional tie-ins were generated by television appearances of the street Piranha in a hit series, “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.,” starring Robert Vaughn. Stevens and Anahory barnstormed across the country, commanding top dollar to match-race local heroes or make exhibition singles. Fans loved the Piranha as much as racers hated it.
With the exception of the slingshot-framed Garlits Darts, nothing else billed as a Funny Car was smoking the tires to half-track or beyond, nor consistently clocking low-eight-second ETs at speeds around 190 mph. Largely overlooked in all the controversy was the fact that no other back-motored car had ever steered so straight at such speeds. “It drove like a Cadillac,” Stevens insisted. “I never had any problems at all.”
Developed by Marbon Chemical, a division of automotive supplier Borg-Warner, as a way to sell automakers on the efficacy of its new body-grade plastic, Cycolac, the CRV (Cycolac Research Vehicle) concept car caught the attention of plastic-model manufacturer AMT. The Michigan-based company decided to get into the life-size car business with the help of customizing legend Gene Winfield, and intended to produce 50 Corvair-powered versions of the CRV per year. The car got a real name—Piranha—and AMT commissioned a Cycolac-bodied dragster powered by a 1400-hp 392 Hemi to promote it.
http://blog.caranddriver.com/piranha-spotted-at-laguna-seca-motorsports-reunion-weirdness/
http://www.draglist.com/Pictures/POD%20Dec%202000/POD-122200.htm
http://www.dragracingonline.com/nowthen/vii_4-2.html
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