Saturday, October 10, 2020
El Noodlerino
https://el-dexturismo.tumblr.com/post/630366286512259072#notes
Found at SEMA 2018 http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2018/11/race-ready-trans-am.html but this photo is far better than what I could achieve at SEMA without a ladder
Bill France could probably afford any car he wanted to drive in the Carrera Panamericana... choosing a Nash must have been due to a good reason (thanks Steve)
Bill France had cut a deal with Nash to make them the Official Pace Car of NASCAR. Nash even entered NASCAR races in at least 1950 - 1952, and even won a 150 lap race at Charlotte Speedway in 1950.
After the 1950 Carrera Panamericana (which allowed only strictly stock vehicles and included more than one Nash), the No. 37 car entered a few NASCAR heats.
After the 1950 Carrera Panamericana (which allowed only strictly stock vehicles and included more than one Nash), the No. 37 car entered a few NASCAR heats.
During the Carrera Panamericana, one Nash was running 1st when it blew a tire 10 miles short of the finish line. They changed the tire and took 3rd place.
ok, some one probably understands this, why does the closest bug look smallest?
the source says that these are a VW Brilkever, a Kever, and a Cabriolet, at the Zandvoort.
So, the split rear window bug is called a Brilkever, the Kever is a word for the bug/beetle.
I've never heard of the term Brilkever, so, learn something new every day!
The Brilkever had the split rear window, was built from 1945 to 1953 and had an output of 25 hp, and was compact.
I know that the Zandvoort is a racetrack in the Netherlands, maybe in translation it appears in the description as a word meaning where they are racing, and not trying to describe the 3rd car. Translations are not perfect
Friday, October 09, 2020
I don't see how this can be a good idea, getting kids to think that they can talk to cars (thanks Gary!)
the Ontario Safety League and British Petroleum got together in 1959, and from 1959 through 1964, the League toured Mr. Beep throughout Ontario during the summer, giving traffic safety lectures to schoolchildren.
The first roadside rest stop, in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
the idea caught on, and about 10 years later one was made in the Lower Peninsula
https://www.facebook.com/groups/447886021929743/permalink/3606018269449820/
Thursday, October 08, 2020
The idea of taking a plane from the skies and burying it undergrownd is that of British contemporary artist Roger Hiorns, to symbolize the end of an era, a symbolic act of saying good-bye to an era of development represented by the MiG planes.
2 years later the country changed it's mind and exhumed it.
Riddle me this, why do we have robots on mars, but it took until now to put cameras on Georgia school buses to ticket the assholes that risk kids lives by driving past when the stop sign is out? buses are now taking pictures of "Stop runners". If you pass a bus while the stop sign is out and the red lights are flashing
The Carroll County Sheriff’s Office is working together with Carroll County Schools by reviewing violation video and license plate images for final approval prior to a citation being issued. In Georgia, the penalty for a violation will warrant the vehicle’s owner a $300 fine for the first violation, a $750 fine for the second, and a third violation in a five-year period will result in a $1,000 fine.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/569564550174447/permalink/991024321361799
Wednesday, October 07, 2020
Artistic genius
I saw a good number of cranes in my 10 years in the navy on piers around the world, some pier I can't recall in where I got a tour of the USS Kamehameha in 1990 in Florida, somewhere between New Smyrna and Cocoa beach, Jebel Ali, Perth and Gladstone Australia, Chin Hae South Korea, Sasebo and Yokosuka Japan, Esquimalt Vancouver Canada, and Pearl Harbor....
But I never looked at one and thought it looked like a giraffe.
http://mildlyinteresting-blog.blogspot.com/2019/12/giraffe-crane.html
Not many car dealerships ever had an airplane in the showroom...
and since I've already recently covered the Auburn Cord Duesenberg connection with the Stinson, E.L. Cord acquired a sixty percent interest in the Stinson Aircraft Company late in 1929, and none of those are in this photo... and that looks like a Piper or similar tiny airplane smaller than a Stinson
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