Welcome aboard the Ural 650, a moody sidecar motorcycle on a 40.000-kilometer journey through Russia, all the way to New York city!
Saturday, April 24, 2021
getting the band on the road in a van, the quintessential road trip tour, is the theme of a new documentary by Dave Grohl
a new documentary is on the way for next Friday that looks back at the early days of some of music's biggest stars: Ringo, Flea, Slash, Steven Tyler, Metallica, No Doubt, and the Foos.
"This film is my love letter to every musician that has ever jumped in an old van with their friends and left it all behind for the simple reward of playing music," Grohl said in a statement. "What started as a project to pull back the curtain on the DIY logistics of stuffing all of your friends and equipment into a small space for months on end eventually turned into an exploration of 'why?' 'What drives us?'"
What Drives Us is set for release April 30 via the Coda Collection, a music-centric streaming service, via Amazon Prime Video Channels.
https://ew.com/movies/trailers/dave-grohl-what-drives-us-trailer
Friday, April 23, 2021
2 friends, and their efforts to break a vintage bike speed record on an 1951 Soviet IZH-49 they turn into a vintage speed machine.
The film was completed in 2019, and has been making the rounds at film festivals ever since.
https://www.rideapart.com/news/500829/salt-from-bonneville-motorcycle-documentary/
Anthony Quinn, 1/4 Irish, 3/4 Mexican
Quinn had appeared in more movies with other Oscar-winning actors than any other Oscar-winning actor - a total of 46 Oscar-winning co-stars (28 male, 18 female).
Before he launched his acting career, Quinn worked odd jobs as a butcher, a boxer, street corner preacher and a slaughterhouse worker.
He also won a scholarship to study architecture with Frank Lloyd Wright, with whom he developed a close relationship.
Thanks Steve!
Thursday, April 22, 2021
Honda confirms 19th U.S. death due to the recalled Takata airbags... Honda had made more than 100 attempts to reach the car's owners, but the repair was never done
The vehicle involved in the fatal crash had been under recall since April 2011.
Honda said it made more than 100 attempts to reach owners of this vehicle including mailed notices, phone calls, emails and in-person canvassing visits
https://www.autoblog.com/2021/04/22/takata-airbag-recall-death-south-carolina/
a recent true account of car insurance vs hospital bills... in case you're convinced that you've got enough insurance to cover a crash and the injuries it causes
example of a paragraph from the article:
Geico generally pays rates set by the state — which are dramatically lower than what was charged. But Gottlieb’s bill included billing codes not on the state schedule. For most, the insurer paid exactly what was charged, for example allowing the full price of $39,195 the hospital charged for nine surgical screws.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/consumer-affairs/2021/4/22/22397673/insurance-car-wreck-medical-bills
the Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse in 1940 exposed a New York insurance agent who'd been embezzling
the Brooklyn newspaper "Daily Eagle" reported about Hallett R. French, the 45-year old Seattle-based insurance agent for Merchants' Fire Assurance Company of New York, who had written an $800,000 policy on the Tacoma Narrows bridge
He was vacationing in Idaho when he got word on November 8 that the bridge collapsed
French believed there was no chance of the bridge collapsing. So, being a rather inept criminal, French deposited the $8,000 in premiums in his bank account without reporting the transaction to his firm.
The insurance company wasn't even aware that they were on the hook for the payout of the policy.
He was convicted of grand larceny, because he had embezzled 70,000 in premiums, 8000 just on the Tacoma Narrows Bridge policy
Wednesday, April 21, 2021
How Dupont had a hand in getting people to want to buy a new car. Why? Well, they'd bought the controlling share of GM.
in 1921 Dupont took over the controlling share of GM and in 1924 GM started selling cars in different colors
https://twistedsifter.com/2021/04/the-shirk-report-volume-626/
100 years ago, to the week, this was the cover of Life magazine
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
I hope you enjoy the performance of this traffic guard... he's having a lot of fun
https://twitter.com/TheSun/status/1380254117852016647
or https://www.reuters.com/video/watch/idOVDZ2GAQP
All I can learn about this is that it was originally posted in Feb from Japan
Ford cheated on smog testing with a car that ran clean when the hood was lifted
Cackette remembers one Ford that had a subtle switch triggered by opening the hood. The emissions controls worked when the hood was up, as it would be during a smog test, and not when it wasn’t.
a comment about the X 15 from Craig
My very 1st memory in life was busting my dad getting my X-15 ready to give to me the next day for my 5th birthday present.
He had just saw me take a neighbor's Radio Flyer wagon down a steep hill on the street we lived on and thought it would be a great idea to give me my X-15.
And to think they came with a seatbelt to strap you in to that heavy piece of steel which somehow mysteriously disappeared after the 1st day. I'm lucky to have lived to tell the tale!! Still, it was a little slice of heaven in my 5 yr old world back then in the 60's. It was also the precursor to my whole life as a daredevil and a painfully handicapped one at that with motorcycles, skateboards and whatever else I could get my hands on to maim myself with but what can I say...it's been one heck of a ride!
Thanks so much for the memories.
Sincerely, Crazy Craig Oh yeah - VROOOOOOOM !!!
in the comments section of https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2019/09/did-you-ever-hear-of-this-mattel-x-15.html
Monday, April 19, 2021
it's been 4 years since I learned of William Harnden Foster, and ever since I've been wanting to see more of his innovative cartoons about boats and engines
I came across the above in 2017 https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2017/10/william-harnden-foster-most.html when I was looking up the art of the incredible artist WH Foster, and it took 4 years to ever run across the others in this series of humor
