Saturday, November 07, 2020
last raced in 1950
Damn shame. Imagine how damn fun it would be to pay a small amount to run it on Elk Mirage or Bonneville... as the owner was done racing it, but could realize it's potential to earn the money it cost to build it.
a theory on why Town Cars had open compartments for the driver
It was a carry-over from the original horse-drawn carriages.
The average servant or livery worker bathed infrequently due to living in the days before indoor plumbing was common for everyone, hence the open air cab but the enclosed space for the rich and well to do gentry.
This carried over into automobiles. Since automobiles and horses shared the same roads for a decade or two, the horse carriage drivers now took care of the newfangled automobile and the horses too, and he still smelled like horseshit possibly
it's been years since I've seen a dog cart photo
this causes me to ponder, do dog sled teams get used in the summer to pull wheeled carts to keep them in shape?
1948 Packard just screwed on wood paneling to appear to be a Woody. What a shame upper management made such terrible decisions that killed any left over reputation of the glory days. I suppose all car companies do. None seem to improve from their first couple decades, except some expensive euro sports car makers
great place to park your car to take a photo of it!
imagine the free publicity these car makers would get if the dealerships were smart enough to make one wall at the dealership have something similar where customers would WANT to take a photo to share on social media
dealerships during the corona crisis...
I took the commuter (Hyundai Veloster) into a Hyundai dealership to het the hatchback latch replaced, as it stopped working a month ago, and it's quite inconvenient to get into the cargo area through the back seat.
That's when I discovered that the customer lounge area is now off limits
and they do not have a shuttle driver.
This dealership uses Lyft. Hmmm. Serves more customers, simultaneously, not sequentially, and the dealership doesn't pay medical, doesn't have to pay fuel, etc.
So why didn't they use taxis before this? Were taxis more expensive than Lyft?
Friday, November 06, 2020
Porsche CEO Oliver Blume told Hagerty “70% of the cars we have ever built are still on the road"
Interesting notion.
This has me wonder, has any other car maker that made as many cars as Porsche, any idea how many cars they've made which are still on the road? Ferrari maybe.
Rolls Royce maybe, Shelby cars probably, as the Shelby registry is possibly the most interested in the various Shelby vehicles - more interested in it's demographic than Porsche or Ferrari owner clubs
made for industrial work... it has solid rubber smooth tires, useless in the fields. Her dress and sailors blouse are an odd choice too. I suppose central casting didn't have any farmers hanging around, they are usually busy working on the farm
thanks Steve!
I had forgotten this other Fordson tractor with Trublpruf tires that I posted in 2017:
Tony, Tom Mix's horse getting moved by a tractor. 1925 https://picryl.com/media/tony-tom-mixs-horse-drawn-by-tractor-52125
