Just A Car Guy: 4/25/21

Saturday, May 01, 2021

The Zoot Suiters

Here I am just finishing watching the show Band of Brothers, and looking for stuff to post and find this, so of course I'm posting it.

What a great bunch of guys

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/vintage-shots-from-days-gone-by-part-2.1154030/page-602#post-13639555

You can see more of his work at

I just posted about this train car diner recently

http://www.urbansketchers.org/search/label/Stephen%20Gardner

I've never heard of a Lincoln garden tractor, until now. This guy found one to fix up. They were for "Serious gardeners and after supper farmers"

Made made by National Steel & Shipbuilding Corp., San Diego, Ca. (known locally as NASSCO) after WW2 when there were no more shipbuilding contracts, so to shift to an in demand field of industry for the booming civilian post war life, they made these tractors.

At the same time, a lot of So Cal was shifting to lawnmowers, trailers, campers, and kids bikes

This Lincoln tractor is powered by a 6 1/2 horsepower Wisconsin Model "AEH" engine and has three forward and one reverse speed Crosley transmission

here's a good look at one:https://www.northstateauctions.com/auction/316/item/lincoln-garden-tractor-68823

https://www.smokstak.com/forum/threads/nasco-lincoln.33577/

from google books

Western Metalworking, Volumes 6-7, page 22, 23, May 1949

In that article, it mentioned that NASSCO owned 3 tuna boats (San Diego was the home of 80% of the west coast Tuna industry, and Chicken of the Sea is still headquartered here I heard) and 4 of the Bakersfield oil wells

https://sandiego250.com/nassco/

Slide #11 on https://www.agriculture.com/machinery/ageless-iron/lawn-garden-tracts_565-sl29247

By the way, a great website for finding fun old tractors is https://www.farmcollector.com/tractors/tractors-collections

good morning, and welcome to the weekend! I hope yours is great!

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Friday, April 30, 2021

certainly a cool thing, with a wheel

https://ogdaa.blogspot.com/2021/04/sunday-gifdump_0121667856.html

this trucker was more patient than I would have been, and held out longer until enough bullshit was too much to endure any more. That's when the jackass was dealt with simply, and no one else on the road was troubled by the jackass any longer

https://ogdaa.blogspot.com/2021/04/sunday-video-6_01704162463.html

SIC EM BOY!

https://ogdaa.blogspot.com/2021/04/wednesday-gifdump-pt-ii.html#more

won the car, drove the car, wrecked the car

A couple of days ago, Dream Car Giveaways gave away a red Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX FQ-320 model with 70,000 miles on the odometer, a full service history, just "a few mild mods," a recent repaint, and the equivalent of around $1,400 on the hood for running costs.

Legendary all-wheel drive, just two liters under the hood, the next couple of oil changes paid for. What could go wrong, right?

90 miles later, the 27 year old lead foot who won the Evo lost control smashing the hell out of both the front and rear ends at 140 mph

https://www.thedrive.com/news/40384/man-wins-a-2006-mitsubishi-evo-ix-and-totals-it-the-next-day

https://www.hotcars.com/mitsubishi-lancer-evo-ix-wrecked-by-owner-days-after-winning-it/