Saturday, July 11, 2020

What is this thing, WITT, Is a reddit page that exists so you can get a huge number of people to look at your mystery object, in hopes that someone around the world will see it and identify it



this thing was found near railroad tracks. That might mean it's related to something about trains and railroads, or it could just be something off of something that was on a train, or used while working on the railroad

https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/comments/hpk6oo/a_rusty_hook_of_some_kind_found_by_a_railroad/

What was the 1st organized stock car race? Was it the 1933 Elgin race? If it was, then this is the 1st winning stock car


Driven to victory in the 1933 Elgin Road Race by former Indianapolis 500 winner Fred Frame, the 1933 race was possibly the first organized stock car race, making this car possibly the first winning stock car

https://www.mecum.com/lots/SC0520-415668/1933-ford-roadster-elgin-road-race-car/

the Elvis Presley hot rod didn't meet the reserve, which no doubt was ridiculous


It's ok, but it's not cool enough to pull big dollars even though it was driven by Elvis in a movie... that just doesn't matter much anymore.

Like WHO is going to take this to a car cruise, or car show, and lose their marbles simply because 60 years ago Elvis drove it?

https://www.mecum.com/auctions/indianapolis-2020/lots

coolest license plate I've seen in a while, 666 K9.

In Carlsbad, close to the Camp Pendelton Marine Corps base 

Steve McQueen's father, William McQueen (1907–1958), might have been a stunt pilot for a barnstorming flying circus, its possible, but it's certain he was in the merchant marines


The Life Steve McQueen By Dwight Jon Zimmerman

I bring up that it's possible, because once someone wrote that, EVERYTHING on line about him repeats it. Well, what if they made it up because it was sensational? Then that lie is spread, and the truth is never known

https://medium.com/@jeremylr/how-a-military-brat-got-hooked-on-the-razor-sharp-mystique-of-quintessential-hollywood-outsider-2cc632f95bc1

I was able to determine what his occupation was — Merchant Marine, not a barnstorming pilot — his last known address — Long Beach, California — the cause of death — cirrhosis of the liver — and his social security number.

The social security number allowed me access to his military file, which contained his photos, his various tours of duty, and where he traveled in the years after he left Jullian and Steve. And then it made sense how William was able to stay under the radar and evade Steve all those years — he was constantly out to sea.

both of Steve's parents were dead by the time he turned 35

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_McQueen

Here's a photo of Steve's grandfather, Lewis


https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/57614136/person/42024180696/gallery

interesting stuff in the auction of the Atzbach collection


A Shelby autographed book ends helmet cut in half




your choice of GT 350 R hoods.

a GT 40 headlight cover that the crew chief decorated with engine badges, stickers, and a Shelby Cobra badge. 


original Shelby American company 1963 Christmas card was sent out to employees and friends of the company  (Dave Deal art? Looks exactly like his signature)

and a 100 record holding Rock Ola. Damn, that is cool


a set of 4 custom wheels which were being produced specifically for Ken Miles to run on one of his Shelby American factory team cars. Before completion, Ken Miles was tragically killed while testing  at Riverside. Following Ken's death, this set of wheels was sold to a privateer who was running a private comp 289 Cobra.

If you don't like this set, there are 4 or 5 other sets of rims, magnesium and aluminum alloy, plus sets of tires, and individual tires, I don't mean the common ordinary tire you can buy at the store, I mean tires from the 60s, from Shelby American. Tires for Cobras, Gt 350s, and GT 40s



If you need seriously awesome real unused rims and tires from the late 60s, here's you chance to pick and choose.

And there are carbs, speedometers, tachs, valve covers, helmets, intakes, oil coolers, shocks,  etc.



Thursday, July 09, 2020

The crew of B-17G 'Bolo Babe' of the 546th Bomb Squadron, 384th BG, poses on top of their plane after a crash landing in France.


Bolo Babe crash-landed near Moyeuvre-Grande, near Thionville, France after she lost an engine and her electrical system during a mission to Ludwigshafen Germany, Sept 1944.

The entire crew returned to the UK by C-47 and returned to flight status on 13 September, 1944. The aircraft was salvaged.

Bolo Babe flew 50 missions.

https://www.facebook.com/HistoryisallaboutColour/photos/a.735448703141984/2966805416672957

This photo was in the exhibition “For a Love of His People: The Photography of Horace Poolaw,” on the third floor of the National Museum of the American Indian.


B-17 Flying Fortress crew members Gus Palmer (left), a citizen of the Kiowa nation and a side gunner, and Horace Poolaw (right), also a Kiowa and an aerial photographer, stand near their aircraft at MacDill Field, Florida., in about 1944.

https://www.facebook.com/HistoryisallaboutColour/photos/a.735448703141984/3072993319387499