Saturday, May 23, 2020
are those Diplock Pedrails or wheel chocks? On the SAB AB20, 1930s.
https://dieselpunk.livejournal.com/747747.html'
Looking into it further it turned out those are some complicated way of getting the plane off the ground for maintenance, maybe for the gunners turret under the plane? SO there would be more clearance for it to be lowered fully while on the ground?
Timer made in Switzerland for Italian bombers
https://dieselpunk.livejournal.com/748416.html#cutid1
I don't like the trend of so many car enthusiast websites and magazines have taken up in the past decade, going on about wristwatches that cost thousands of dollars that only the megawealthy can afford, as if the magazine readers are going on a shopping spree for the unobtainable ( the Porsche 914 and Steve McQueen's Tag Hauer from the movie Le Mans)
But showing time pieces like car clocks, and bomber timers for warplanes? No problem at all.
Even rally cars have that dual time piece mounted on the dash. But wrist watches for the wealthy? Not here. Not vehicle related, and car enthusiast websites and magazines went off the rails when they started with all the "lifestyle" fashion nonsense.
This isn't the fathers day gift guide section. It's just appreciation for the mechanical time pieces used in the military
57 Caddy tail fins design was also carried through to the instrument panel design.
Look at the foreshadowing of the fin over the twin gauges, for the tail fin of the 59
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1957-cadillac-eldorado-3/
Friday, May 22, 2020
how fast did that car have to be moving? 70 mph?
Occurred on May 15, 2020 / Miami, Florida,
A 57 year old woman that she lost control because of low blood sugar.
Of course it was a 57 year old woman... it's a mini van.
By the way, lots of respect to the home owner who child proofed the pool. That's a life saving fence right there.
I might have posted this, I can't recall... but it's a hell of a nice model TT, Freeman McKenzie’s City Garage Inc., in Long Beach Model TT Ford service truck
This guy knew how to get attention with his truck!
Since April 1st, with only 14 videos, this guy has made a you tube channel with 1.5 million subscribers. Yes, you too can make an impact on the world, if you're well spoken, choose the right topic, are intelligent, helpful, generous, and present your videos so a vast majority can benefit from them
Rob’s mother, a Kansas native and one of 12 kids with a close, extended family, planned on raising her own, large family close to her homeland. But when she married Rob’s father, he forced their departure for New Orleans and then Washington. Coping with the stress of raising eight children thousands of miles from anyone she knew, Rob’s mother turned to alcohol.
While Rob’s father worked in a neighboring city, the marriage deteriorated. The custody battle raged on after the divorce, and “He got custody of us, but he didn’t really want us,” Rob said. “I think he was kind of done by that time.”
The kids lived on their own for weeks at a time. Their father loaded them up with groceries then left town for a week of work. Then Rob’s dad told his older siblings he didn’t want them anymore.
Years later, the kids reconciled with their dad, but their mom died in 1986 at age 59 without reconciling with her kids.
He and his father did reconcile after his old man asked for forgiveness, at which point Rob decided his goal in life was 'to raise good adults'.
Rob and his wife of 29 years raised two children who now live as successful, well-adjusted adults. His son, Kyle, works as a software engineer. His daughter, Kristine, earned a handful of degrees helping her work with kids.
Now, I'd fail him for this video, for a couple reasons, but then, he's just not a car guy. Read the manufactures required tire pressure on the side wall of the damn tire. Seriously, the tire pressure mentioned on the door jamb sticker is only for the tires that the car manufacturer sold the car with, they might not be on the car anymore.
But, regardless of that and other things, in just the first 3 minutes, he's on point, and trying to be helpful in teaching people stuff that deadbeat dads were not around to teach kids.
So, average the awesome factor of that, with the fail on just this tire pressure video, and he's still A+ with me.
His changing a tire video has problems, like recording it so far from the camera you can't hear him... at least, not on my laptop's speakers, maybe with plug in powered speakers... anyway, he doesn't know how to use a scissors jack, without busting his knuckles, and is showing other people how to bust their knuckles. So, whatever... people will figure out better ways to do things when they've got the tools in their hands and try this stuff out themselves. But dang, you know? He should have got a car guy to give him a hand, and pointers, before he tackled car stuff. I do like how he remembered to tell people to use a tire wedge to prevent the car from rolling once jacked in the air, but, he didn't show it, relative to a hill, in front or behind a tire. So, points off. Still, averaged with the awesome factor of trying to help? Averages to an A+
https://www.facebook.com/dadhowdoi
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNepEAWZH0TBu7dkxIbluDw/videos
https://www.ladbible.com/community/daily-ladness-man-who-grew-up-without-a-dad-made-a-youtube-channel-to-support-kids-20200521
https://shatteredmagazine.net/588-dad-how-do-i/
https://nypost.com/2020/05/21/dad-who-grew-up-without-a-dad-makes-youtube-videos-for-kids/
https://www.wciu.com/videos/thejam/learning-life-skills-with-rob-kenney-of-dad-how-do-i
American Honda owners got sensible tiny car engines. So what did they do? They invented noise makers to create large engine sounds. No one knows why
I wonder if they did this stupid fart can exhaust in Japan.
Probably not.
It's all probably due to the Fast and Furious movies. Neither fast, nor furious... they stole vcrs from semis... semis only roll 55 mph? 65? It's not like they can chase a car.
https://enfantedeluna.tumblr.com/
1937 Diamond T that was hidden from the New Zealand govt during WW2 so they wouldn't seize it from where people were using it.
It is now in the Bill Richardson's Museum in Invercargill
https://www.facebook.com/groups/313214229108650/permalink/991339627962770/
Pontiac museum destroyed in the Michigan floods this week
73-year-old Timothy Evans loves Pontiac Fieros so much that he amassed his own collection and opened a museum to showcase and sell the vehicles.
So when floodwaters from the Tittabawassee River began creeping toward his business earlier this week, Evans scrambled to move his cars to dry ground, he didn't succeed.
The Edenville and Sanford dams breached Tuesday, inundating parts of the Midland County village and flooding his cars. Of Evans’ 20 Fieros, only one, the vehicle he drove home Tuesday, was untouched.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/05/21/pontiac-fiero-collection-destroyed-midland-edenville-dam-flooding/5234159002/
Thursday, May 21, 2020
8 miles of bumper to bumper traffic heading North on I-75 to the UP as trolls head over the bridge
Maybe getting away from the flooding, maybe heading to family hunting cabins, or just getting away from the virus, as the UP is uniquely isolated, as there is not an interstate through the upper peninsula, and few tourists as there are no national parks. There is one island national park in Lake Superior, but again, nothing connecting it to land, and it gets fewer tourists than any but 3 Alaska parks, in the entire national park registry
https://www.facebook.com/groups/447886021929743/permalink/3202084706509847/
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
wow.... do working people know how much faster and easier work can get done with these hoverboards? Why aren't car hops using them? Lawn mowing? There's got to be some jobs like warehouse work that would be helped by these
A better video I was looking for on Youtube was not found there, but click though for a girl that's got the hoverboard mastered https://ampervadasz.tumblr.com/post/618619646574247936
Biggest airplane of it’s time, Tupolev ANT-20 Maksim Gorki was a Soviet eight-engine aircraft, over Red Square, Moscow, 1934. The largest in the world during the 1930s
Maxim Gorky was a five-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
A replacement aircraft, designated ANT-20bis, had begun production the following year and first flew in 1938.
It was largely identical in design but with six more-powerful Mikulin AM-34FRNV engines.
In December 1940, the aircraft was re-engined with two slightly more powerful Mikulin AM-35 engines in the inner positions (numbers three and four).
This aircraft, on 14 December 1942, crashed after the pilot allowed a passenger to take his seat momentarily and the passenger apparently disengaged the automatic pilot, sending the airplane into a nosedive from an altitude of 1,600 ft, killing all 36 on board.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_ANT-20
https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2020/05/biggest-airplane-of-its-time-maksim.html
https://www.armedconflicts.com/Tupolev-ANT-20-Maksim-Gorky-t228077
https://dieselpunk.livejournal.com/772347.html
and now for something very different, the 1930 wood speed boat, the Californian G-2
That is one crazy tail.
Secret Deodorant 1966 Mustang giveaway
I wonder if that Mustang is still around?
https://www.flickr.com/groups/vintage_mustangs/discuss/72157628614320231/
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