I doubt anyone would know the above photos were of anything other than a real full size original car, until that photo of the seats
https://www.escuderia.com/jordi-reixach-mejor-maquetista-mundo/
Saturday, December 14, 2019
Jordi Reixach is one of the most amazing model makers. His incredible creations require thousands of hours of work to accurately recreate the smallest details
I doubt anyone would know the above photos were of anything other than a real full size original car, until that photo of the seats
https://www.escuderia.com/jordi-reixach-mejor-maquetista-mundo/
How bad is "The Enthusiasts Network" aka Motor Trend magazine company? Well, did they bother telling you they'd decided to not continue printing your magazines, after asking you to extend your subscription? Money grubbing bastards just announced they are no longer printing 20 magazines
4-Wheel and Off-Road
Automobile
Car Craft
Chevy High Performance
Classic Trucks
Diesel Power
Hot Rod Deluxe
Jp
Lowrider
Mopar Muscle
Muscle Car Review
Muscle Mustangs and Fast Fords
Mustang Monthly
Street Rodder
Super Chevy
Super Street
Truck Trend
Truckin’
Vette
The suits decided to tell the staffers last Friday. Yeah, JUST BEFORE CHRISTMAS.
WTF is the deal with upper corporate assholes always making decisions to kill peoples jobs weeks before Christmas? It happens all over.
FYI, I gave up on Car Craft a couple years ago, there wasn't good content anymore. I gave up on Automobile because there was so little good content and I had too many magazines to read.
I gave up on Hot Rod Deluxe and Muscle Car Review because they wanted 40 or 50 dollars a years for a subscription, and damn it, I can't afford that much money for subscriptions anymore, the cost of gas, insurance, and rent is killing me. I don't get pay raises.
I still was subscribing to Mopar Muscle, and Autoweek, and NEITHER bothered to tell me that what I'd ALREADY PAID THEM FOR was something they decided to stop providing.
But the mfers are still printing Motor Trend. Who the eff reads that anyway?
https://www.foxnews.com/auto/motortrend-discontinuing-19-automotive-magazines
Automobile
Car Craft
Chevy High Performance
Classic Trucks
Diesel Power
Hot Rod Deluxe
Jp
Lowrider
Mopar Muscle
Muscle Car Review
Muscle Mustangs and Fast Fords
Mustang Monthly
Street Rodder
Super Chevy
Super Street
Truck Trend
Truckin’
Vette
The suits decided to tell the staffers last Friday. Yeah, JUST BEFORE CHRISTMAS.
WTF is the deal with upper corporate assholes always making decisions to kill peoples jobs weeks before Christmas? It happens all over.
FYI, I gave up on Car Craft a couple years ago, there wasn't good content anymore. I gave up on Automobile because there was so little good content and I had too many magazines to read.
I gave up on Hot Rod Deluxe and Muscle Car Review because they wanted 40 or 50 dollars a years for a subscription, and damn it, I can't afford that much money for subscriptions anymore, the cost of gas, insurance, and rent is killing me. I don't get pay raises.
I still was subscribing to Mopar Muscle, and Autoweek, and NEITHER bothered to tell me that what I'd ALREADY PAID THEM FOR was something they decided to stop providing.
But the mfers are still printing Motor Trend. Who the eff reads that anyway?
https://www.foxnews.com/auto/motortrend-discontinuing-19-automotive-magazines
Mississippi is hoping a Baby Yoda meme will help parents to get their kids in car seats
The state’s department of transportation has jumped on the Baby Yoda bandwagon in an effort to remind drivers to use car seats for their children.
The disparity has been turned into a meme that the agency referenced on a traffic sign:
https://www.foxnews.com/auto/mississippi-baby-yoda-car-seats
It took artist Leandro Erlich two years and 330 tons of sand to create his largest work of art to date — a giant traffic jam, made entirely of sand.
Erlich was commissioned by the city of Miami Beach to create the work, which was unveiled during Art Basel. The surreal traffic jam depicts 66 life-sized sculptures of cars and trucks stuck in an imaginary traffic jam on the oceanfront of popular Lincoln Road.
The installation is meant to suggest a future relic, like a contemporary Pompeii, and alludes to Florida’s fragile position in the large universal canvas, touching on climate crisis and rising sea levels.
The installation cost over $1 million, but the city paid $300,000 thanks to sponsors and donations. It will remain on display until Dec. 15
https://www.autoblog.com/2019/12/05/miami-beach-sand-traffic-jam-art-installation/
Friday, December 13, 2019
Germany takes one more step to outlawing religious subjugation of women
The German parliament’s upper house, the Bundesrat, introduced a new law to ‘ensure a driver’s identity can be determined’ if they’re caught speeding. Anyone found with a facial covering, including carnival masks and face-obscuring hoods, will be fined €60.
The Transportation Ministry declined to comment on whether the legislation essentially meant a ‘burka ban’ but said: ‘The rule of law requires that only drivers can be held accountable. ‘That presumes that they can be identified.’
https://metro.co.uk/2017/09/23/women-who-wear-burkas-while-driving-will-now-be-fined-in-germany-6950480
VW discovered a 1953 T1 van that had been stored away for 54 years, it's remarkable because it was one of the earliest radar speed trap training vehicles using the Telefunken VRG2 traffic radar from 1961 to 1964
the Lower Saxony police procurement agency bought it in 1953. At that time, the 25 hp VW bus cost 6,750 marks. The Hanover police used the bulli for eight years, then it was fitted with a radar system.
One of the police officers was Heinz Scholze. The 89-year-old says: "It was completely new territory - for the road users and us." For the first time in Germany on February 15, 1959, speed violations were measured with radar between Düsseldorf and Ratingen.
Incidentally, the VRG2 still works today, explains Frank Märtens from the Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt: "It still measures very precisely today, its error rate has a maximum deviation of three km / h, which means it is within the absolute tolerance range."
https://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/oldtimer/blitzer-bulli-scheunenfund/#
those streams and rivers are often a lot deeper than you hope. Proceed only after using something to measure the depth.
Or not... it's your weekend you'll be wasting getting your rig out of a river in the middle of no where
https://abmuisem.tumblr.com/post/185013282104#notes
a mud-covered 1985 Ford F-150 from Lake Winona. It had been reported stolen out the city of Winona in 1989, and ended up under 17 feet of water for 30 years. June 2019 news
The truck had a 1990 Wisconsin license plate, but the Department of Motor Vehicles people were unable to connect the plate to an owner.
The vehicle’s location has led some to speculate that the vehicle may have fallen through the ice.
The discovery of the truck comes just less than a year after the Buffalo County Sheriff’s Department pulled a sunken 1980s Chevrolet Suburban from the Mississippi River.
The Suburban was discovered last July after multiple agencies received reports of a large object located about 50 yards off the shore in the area of Ninth Street in Buffalo City.
https://www.winonadailynews.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/new-clues-surface-in-mystery-of-how-a-truck-ended/article_d060d147-5aee-5309-8606-cd5c2f4cd1b5.html
Rachel put 567,000 miles on her Comet Caliente, and three sets of shocks, eight mufflers and 18 batteries. The lifetime guarantee people's nightmare.
When Rachel bought “Chariot” in February of 1964, gas cost 39 cents per gallon. And the car only cost her $3,289. Veitch says the car has been featured in several car shows and was renovated in 2002 after she got a speeding ticket for going 92 mph in a 55 mph zone.
The key to keeping it so immaculate? “When I buy gas, I write down the mileage, the date and how many miles per gallon I got,” she told. “I’ve never been a destructive person and I’ve just taken care of everything, except my husbands.”
if you want to watch part two: https://youtu.be/2exxp_V7WrQ
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2012/04/04/150001449/after-567-000-miles-and-48-years-florida-woman-parks-her-chariot
https://www.powernationtv.com/post/93-year-old-turns-in-keys-after-567000-miles-with-her-1964-mercury-comet-caliente
Things I did not know, Adam Driver had 3 Emmy nominations for a show I've never heard of, an Oscar nom, was an E3 infantry in the USMC, and busted his sternum in a mountain bike crash
and that Batman piece is pretty good too.
https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/the-horrifying-experience-that-convinced-adam-driver-to-become-an-actor.html/
Thursday, December 12, 2019
Tim Burton and Winona Ryder on the set of ‘Edward Scissorhands’ with an AMC Matador.
and now she's the mom on Stranger Things
http://deadlycurves.blogspot.com/2019/06/tim-burton-on-set-of-edward.html
