Saturday, November 06, 2021
the school cafeteria lady (who deserves a medal and a statue) noticed a kid with a height/reach problem, and got her husband at Wright Manufacturing in Portland and his team (standing ovation, or key to the city, for them), who put together a badass cart so the kid can hit the lunchroom without troubles
It has handlebar grips like a motorcycle, and a matching stepstool so he can reach the cafeteria countertop. It is adorned with flames and a personalized license plate that says, "JULIAN."
"They took the time to get those license plates with his name, they just really put a lot of heart into it. So when I saw it, the first thing I saw was actually a picture of James and his team who made the cart and I cried. It's just such a sweet thing," his mom said.
Julian is now able to grab his lunch and get out to the benches in style and independencefound on Upworthy, a rare, cool, good news website
Pres Biden's staff decided it required an 85-vehicle motorcade through Rome to meet the pope in person ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference
Democrat Mario Procaccino coined the term "limousine liberal" in his ill-fated 1969 campaign for New York City mayor. Author and journalist Tom Wolfe perhaps popularized the insult in his 1970 essay, "Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny's."
It's ironic, or hypocrisy, to insist that internal combustion engines are phased out by democrat politicians, and that after 2030, or 2035, only electric vehicles will be available for purchase, in California, where the quite old and limited electrical supply infrastructure are not capable of the needs of the consumers during a hot day when air conditioners will be used, or during droughts like this past summer which depleted the water levels behind hydroelectric dams, to the point they weren't able to generate electricity
If politicians were concerned with pollution, carbon foot print, green house gasses, and the other buzzword phrases used to imply negative on climate change, they would use an website or program for meetings, instead of the estimated 2 million pounds of carbon dioxide that this climate conference produced
A 1962 Lancia Fulva parked in Italy for 47 years has become a tourist attraction, the owner is now 94, and he parked his car outside his newsstand in 1974, and used it as a depository.
"I ran the newsstand under the house for 40 years together with my wife Bertilla," Fregolent told Italian newspaper Il Gazzettino.
"When I opened the business, I was happy to have the Lancia Fulvia parked in front of it because I had the newspapers unloaded in the trunk and then I took them inside."After nearly five decades, town officials have decided to move the vehicle because it was blocking the flow of traffic and pedestrians, Il Gazzettino said.
On October 20, the car was taken to the Auto e Moto d'Epoca Motorshow in Padua, to display it for a short period of time alongside other classic cars.
After that, the car will be restored and placed in the garden of the Cerletti Enological School, which is opposite Angelo Fregolent's home, where it will continue to be a local landmark. The couple will be able to see it from their window
Chick-fil-A's fun advertising on delivery and catering trucks
the fun marketing notion that cows are trying to convince people to avoid eating cows, and to eat more chicken? Is a hoot.
beautiful 2 tone (subtly done) Brookwood... when's the last time you heard of a Brookwood? Great looking car, even though it was the entry level wagon, and it's a shame these aren't getting a RETRO (Can you hear me Detroit?!!) version
the spear trim on the side isn't stock, that's custom... well done!
there is a new book out, about the history of indoor hot rod car shows, with Bob Larivee
great Cougar!
terrific wheel and rim choice
they can make it sit up, but it won't roll over... it's got pride
a long bed, crew cab, 90s Dodge truck sure is big, and good at getting people to stop and stare
Ebay motors was trading the 10mm socket set for a badge scan... I find a lot of humor in using the 10mm socket set a booth bait
that's a 6 dollar set, that immediately was for sale online for 14.75 to any sucker that wanted a SEMA souvenir
the 4 wheels banner over the booth was new, and cool
the Foose exhibit took up and end of the North hall, 20 cars very spaced out with no displays to fill in around them
this one on the bottom was at a local San Diego car cruise some years ago, in 2007, and is a beautiful car that shows what an obscure Plymouth Savoy can look like with blank check financing and extremely talented design.
It was designed by Foose, built by Trepanier, for Poteet https://radrides.com/completed-builds/1954-plymouth-sniper just 3 years after Rad Rides by Troy became a business, and auctioned off in 2002 https://www.barrett-jackson.com/Events/Event/Details/1954-PLYMOUTH-SNIPER-CUSTOM-23113
