Thank you to each of the 11 who answered my question about these.
Saturday, February 09, 2019
clever license plates this week
everyone used every Hell Cat and kitty variation, so then someone had to get a bit inventive. I like it
Found on a work van
When a construction project the size of a 2 year long bridge build happens, a lot of trailer parks suddenly happened
With construction of the Mackinac Bridge imminent, many folks knew that there would be a housing shortage in the St. Ignace area. One quick solution was to make house trailers available. Just a few of the “landlords” who applied for licensing from the city in early 1954 were: R. Cheeseman - for 20 trailers at 404 Portage (by April 1954, there were 16 in place), Patrick Gallagher - for 7 on Church Street, Allen Lester-for 3 at 159 First Street.
https://www.saintignace.org/history-of-st-ignace/tidbits-of-history/
building of the Mackinac bridge, completed in June 1958
Oldsmobile provided a fleet of convertibles so that beauty queens from all over Michigan could participate.
Why such a big deal? Well, it's the only bridge from one half of the state across Lake Michigan to the other half of the state, and in the years just before the Mighty Mac was completed, car ferries provided regular passage over the Straits of Mackinac, says Lowell Thomas, “with only minor inconveniences, such as waiting in line for 19 hours.”
https://www.facebook.com/pg/goodtimesgoodfood/photos/?tab=album&album_id=351730298179308
https://www.mackinacbridge.org/fares-traffic/fare-schedule/#passenger
and you can find some other interesting old movies made for schools at https://www.youtube.com/user/USAutoIndustry/videos
https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2015/07/29/midweek-matinee-the-five-mile-dream-1958/
https://blogs.lib.msu.edu/red-tape/2018/jun/june-25-1958-first-governors-walk-across-mackinac-bridge/
http://www.mightymac.org/58mackinacbridgeparade2.htm
Friday, February 08, 2019
most amazing thing I found this week? That the 1961 AMBR winner was begun in 8th grade, however, Rich Guasco is best known for “Pure Hell”, his famous AA Fuel Altered Bantam. I'm simply slack jawed stunned
Rich’s relationship with his roadster began with a pristine ’32 Ford coupe that had been retired to his family’s wrecking yard when he was 13, in 8th grade.
His dad owned the Santa Rita Garage, a wrecking yard in the then-rural east San Francisco Bay community of Pleasanton. A family friend named Al Stanton (whose uncle had sold the yard to Rich’s father) drove in one day in his ’29 highboy roadster.
Barely a teenager, Guasco was mesmerized, recognizing a real hot rod from similar cars he’d seen in magazines left in junked cars. Stanton told Guasco it had a ’32 Ford frame in need of bodywork.
Seeing this as the basis for his “dream car,” Rich proceeded to tip it on its side and cut off the unwanted body and fenders (remember this was just another 20-year-old used vehicle at the time). Then went into the junkyard and promptly tipped a nice five-window '29 coupe on its side and cut off the body and fenders.
A hopped-up Flathead and a genuine 4-inch dropped Mor-Drop axle were soon added and Rich had himself a honest-to-goodness hot rod.
in 1962 Guasco's Top Fuel Dragster won the America's Most Beautiful Competition Car trophy.
At the Grand National Roadster Show in Oakland. Rich Gausco is the only person to win them both
from Muscle Car Review
https://www.hotrod.com/articles/0110sr-rich-guasco-roadster/
https://www.hotrod.com/articles/0603rc-1929-ford-roadster/
https://www.hotrod.com/articles/1929-ford-highboy-roadster-2/
Mopar commercials were not on during the Super Bowl, saving Mopar 30 million dollars. Smart. They really don't need to be in order to get just as much attention online
Every year, since 2009, during the depths of Chrysler’s bankruptcy, Chrysler, Chrysler Group, and FCA have been big-time Super Bowl advertisers, some years on a par with Budweiser. It started with the groundbreaking 2011 “Imported from Detroit” spot by Eminem for the Chrysler 200, the 2012 Clint Eastwood “It’s Halftime in America” commercial, the memorable 2013 “Farmers” Paul Harvey spot for Ram, the 2014 spots featuring Bob Dylan in the “Imported from Detroit II” visual essay and the “Strike” spot for the Maserati Ghibli, and finally, two spots last year, the Jeep black and white “Portraits” video celebrating its 75-year history and heritage and the very controversial spot for Ram which used a Martin Luther King sermon about greatness, grace, and love as a voice over.
The game was viewed by 100,000,000 in the US, and since it's youtube, most of these videos have been seen by around 2 or 3 million people, without the millions wasted on broadcasting them to a lot more people who simply aren't going to buy a new truck anyway.
The 4th video already has 52 million views. Obviously, it didn't need to be broadcast to reach almost the same number of people that were watching the Super Bowl, and how many of the game viewers were watching commercials anyway?
http://moparconnectionmagazine.com/video-why-didnt-fca-advertise-in-this-years-super-bowl/
The bridge in Stand By Me, has two tracks, large and small... not side by side, but fit inside the other.
Those inside rails are called "Guide Rails" and are there to keep the locomotive and the cars on the bridge in case of a derail. (thanks NZCarnerd and Garage Tech!)
By the way, I'm surprised no one hangs a swing, or hammock, under a bridge for rest and relaxation, maybe even fishing.
waiting for the Mackinac Bridge to open for the very 1st time.
not just waiting for the novelty of going over a new bridge, but to avoid the damn ferry wait times.
I remember as a kid, and the one time as an adult that I've driven over it, that you know you're finally arriving in the right place when you get to the bridge. You're leaving behind all the asshole State Police that sit off in the woods on the sides of the interstate. There is no Interstate in the Upper Penninsula. You're leaving behind big cities, traffic jams, and assholes.
Up in the yoop, people are a hell of a lot friendlier, and when I lived there before graduating high school, even strangers waved hi as they drove by
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2005943912854293&set=gm.1665017966978146&type=3&permPage=1&ifg=1
Lets say for a moment that this actually IS NOS, and simply has a simple trigger handle to let it loose for ridiculous effect on this scooter
Am I right that unless they premix the NOS with some atmo, and it were to be shot into the carb with some sort of regulator that would allow only so many CFM per minute, that it would simply lean out and melt the piston?
I can't imagine anyone actually even taking the time to paint a fire extinguisher blue, and attaching it to a scooter, without a better plan than that.
Now, if they really did hook up a real NOS system to a scooter, safe, and ready to be used time and time again... that would be a hoot for racing your friends
https://www.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/ao7www/pretty_sweet_boosted_scooter_i_ran_into/
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