Saturday, February 27, 2021
hanger queen, a car that some rich guy, who has owned an airplane hanger for decades, put in his hanger to avoid hearing his wife ask when he was going to get rid of it, but it was only relocated out of her view... and never fixed up
went from project to car show and weekend fun car in 4 years.
1959 Austin Healey 100-6
Friday, February 26, 2021
why do metric sockets.... work on a 1/4, 3/8, and 1/2 drive... but don't have some weird 'metric' size drive?
I've never heard of a metric drive socket wrench.
So, what the hell is that about?
Did someone look at the world, and say, hold my beer and see how long it takes someone to notice this shitfuckery?
better remember to not drive faster than your guardian angel can fly, cause shit goes bad really damn fast out there... there's a reason new cars have all wheel disc brakes and air bags everyhwere
rumor is that they swapped out rear end gears from 3.23 to 4.11, went for a drive, downshifted in a corner from 3rd to 2nd and back end broke loose, front end clipped a tree while going sideways and then spun it around and it hit a tree going backwards..
https://www.facebook.com/groups/996045710517424/permalink/3562862487169054
What a beast... no heater, no power steering, just work to be done - and one lousy headlight
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/vintage-shots-from-days-gone-by-part-2.1154030/page-91#post-13171540
Scenic Highway 1 near Big Sur to reopen this summer
Summing up, because the state (state highway must be maintained by the state, right?) won't budget for maintenance of the water drain culverts, this one clogged up, and now cost about 12 million dollars to rebuild, delaying traffic for 5 or 6 months.
Seems obvious to me that a a couple hundred dollars of labor semi annually, or quarterly, would have prevented this.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-02-26/highway-1-reopen-summer-big-sur
San Diego used to be a place where a lot of racing was going on, it's got the right weather, proximity to Los Angeles celebs, etc... but must have become too expensive and unwelcome to racing businesses to be viewed as having any future in racing
Carlsbad Drag Strip, Torrey Pines, Coronado Speed Fest, racing at the Del Mar Fairgrounds (Carroll Shelby raced there) they're all gone. Of course, it could also be a problem related to overcrowding residential neighborhoods that are anti noise.
To get a look at the many race venues, and some of the famous people involved,
see http://sandiegoracingmuseum.weebly.com/
https://www.goodingco.com/vehicle/1956-cscc-torrey-pines-road-races-program-pit-pass-and-medallion/
https://www.goodingco.com/auction/realized/phil-hill-collection-life-in-racing/
Phil Hill's racing helmet worn during his first victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans just sold at auction for a ridiculous $193,750
The Herbert Johnson helmet sold for $193,750
Hill was one of the most accomplished drivers to ever compete on a race track, reigning as America’s only World Champion in Formula 1, on the overall-winning team three times at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and racking up a host of other significant victories in the 1950s and ’60s. In his later years, he was a gracious ambassador for motorsports and the collector car world. He passed away in 2008.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
great painting to show off the car number
I'm guessing that the other eye, the one that appears to be a "black eye", is the clever way to acknowledge the cars demolition derby use. I find that really damn clever
the size of this bus! With dual rear tires
1911: Celebrating the arrival of the Pacific Electric Railway in San Fernando Valley.
the 1964 Ford Econ-O-Line known as the Collins Van by ham radio operators, as it was the mobile show room that toured the country for 2 years advertising the radios,
effectively too, as a lot of guys picked up the hobby, and used it during the Vietnam war to communicate for free, to the people back home
Thanks Ed!
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
probably a 41 G.M.C. K-18 signal corps panel truck
only 312 of these Hix bodied rigs were made.
so crazy and true, I can't make this up... and it's related to vehicles 3 ways
Iggy Pop, whose parents lived in Detroit, was hanging out with David Bowie, in Berlin, over an auto parts store, and while waiting for Starsky and Hutch to start, Bowie picked up his son's ukulele and roughed out 'Lust For Life".
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/14/arts/music/david-bowie-iggy-pop.html
https://www.ukulelemag.com/stories/how-iggy-pop-and-david-bowie-wrote-a-classic-on-ukulele
https://uketunes.wordpress.com/2019/01/20/the-passenger-iggy-pop/
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/david-bowie-iggy-pop-cover-lust-for-life-live-rockpalast/
GM electric bus, 1913. Odd that it seems to have hard rubber front tires and pneumatic rear tires.
Seems like a mix of stage coach, station wagon, and bus
the golden era of rich people flying off to island vacations, here's a Sikorsky S 30
Pan American World Airways was founded by two US Air force Majors. In 1927 it began an airmail service between Key West Florida and Havana Cuba and was the United States’ first scheduled International flights.
Within a year, aviation visionary Juan Trippe took the controls of Pan AM and introduced its first passenger services to Havana. An ad campaign cosponsored by PAN AM and Bacardi successfully encouraged Americans to fly away from alcohol prohibition in the US to drink rum in the sun in Cuba
On October 26, 1958 Pan Am became the first United States airline to fly jet aircraft. A Pan Am Boeing 707 streaked across the Atlantic from New York to Paris in eight hours. In 1970 Pan Am carried 11 million customers and invested half a billion dollars in a large fleet of Boeing’s 747.
that's a lot of companies under one corporate umbrella
I'm pretty sure that GM had many more... spark plug, generator and alternator companies, brakes, etc
Henry Js were small enough to fly in that small airliner? I'm impressed, you can't see the grease it took to get them to slide in and turn to get aligned front to back
no doubt colorized by the always impressive "Imbued with Hues" facebook page artist.