Though tailfins were fashionable, the AP2 featured fins on top of fins.
The saddle fins were optional, but most cars left the factory with them. Although the top fin looks part of the body, it was actually bolted on.
Saturday, September 17, 2022
a ‘pavement princess' left the safety of the mall parking lot, and as you must expect, immediately was unable to function as a actual truck? Why? Idiot owner installed a butt plug, oh, I mean a hitch that only served as a jeweled butt plug, never intended to tow a trailer
and this was all the distance the Florida idiot could make it
a prediction that didn't come true, though it was in the right field, from an advert in 1950 MoToR magazine
instead, they went with heated rear windows that have the very tiny wires that de-ice the back window
putting a D11 to work in a quarry
only a couple minutes at the beginning of the video, and a moment at the end. This guy would rather talk on his video than record the dozer working.
So I looked at the other videos on their channel, and found another, still short, but with the bigger ripper in use
some weekend mornings I just want to get off to a slow start, and watch really damn big dozers at work
See some D10s and D11 at https://www.youtube.com/c/khughesone1/videos
a small auction company I've never heard of has some cool stuff that has no bids, and only 13 days until the auction of Ron Vest's collection in Oklahoma is over (thanks Doug!)
Brookville bodied 31 https://www.freedomcarauctions.com/auctions/12342/lot/3616-1931-Traditional--Ford--Hot-Rod
1969 427 tri power 4 speed... https://www.freedomcarauctions.com/auctions/12342/lot/3624-1969-Chevrolet--Corvette-Convertible
6500 mile 2017 Z06 https://www.freedomcarauctions.com/auctions/12342/lot/3628-2017-Chevrolet-Corvette-Z06-Convertible-2D-
'48 Willys https://www.freedomcarauctions.com/auctions/12342/lot/3629-NO-RESERVE-1948-Willy's-Jeep
'50 Merc https://www.freedomcarauctions.com/auctions/12342/lot/3425-NO-RESERVE-1950-Mercury-Coupe-Coupe
'64 Fairlane 500 with a 289 https://www.freedomcarauctions.com/auctions/12342/lot/3426-NO-RESERVE-1964-Ford--Fairlane
'69 H/O with the his n hers shifter, 455 @ 380hp
https://www.freedomcarauctions.com/auctions/12342/lot/3659-NO-RESERVE-1969-Oldsmobile-Hurst-Cutlass
455, auto, PS PB with disc brakes https://www.freedomcarauctions.com/auctions/12342/lot/3660-NO-RESERVE-1969-Pontiac-GTO
https://www.freedomcarauctions.com/auctions/12342-Freedom-Choctaw-Auction-Durant%2C-OK-
astonishingly lazy original owner accidentally preserved an original license plate for posterity
I've never seen anyone so damn lazy they mount the new one over the old one...
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=5743232955700564&set=pcb.5235598073228812
Thomas Smith began the Smith Model A Motor Compressor Co when he realized how much air compressors were needed in industry, and construction, by rethinking junkyard Model As
T G Smith's day job at the Kentucky-Tennessee Power Company was instrumental in his realizing the various components of necessity:
city governments, businesses, and federal alphabet agencies created as part of the New Deal needed to power jack hammers, mining drills, and water pumps
and resources:
Ford Model As were cheap machines with proven reputations, in driveways and scrapyards in droves.
Smith designed a clever system to retrofit a used Model A.
He patented a cylinder head for the car’s 40-horse four-cylinder:
Cylinders one and four burned gasoline, powering the engine as usual;
two and three pumped air into a reservoir tank mounted on the car
Smith’s conversions didn’t stop with a head swap.
The rear two-thirds of a Model A were lopped off, sectioning the car at the cowl.
Little of the vehicle’s front went to waste: The leaf springs that originally ran parallel to front and rear axles were removed, rotated 90 degrees, and remounted to support the two wheels of the now single-axle compressor housing.
The original hood, radiator, grille, dash, and gauges remained. The Ford’s original frame rails extended forward from the radiator and remained to form a yoke for easy towing.
The genius and the beauty of this, is that it's easily pulled, towed, and serviced by either you or your local Ford mechanic.
Friday, September 16, 2022
Richmond Auctions sold a rare sign for over $1 million, it was found unused, in an attic, and came from a Muskegon company that only was in business between 6 to 24 months. It broke the previous record sign sale price of 440k, by 1.1 million dollars
This record-breaking sign is the best-known example of this legendary sign. It was found in an attic in Michigan and it’s truly fresh to market – it has never been seen by the public eye before now.
Musgo, originally located in Muskegon, Michigan, was believed to be open for less than six months during the late 1920s, and probably went bankrupt in 1929, along with so many other small businesses killed by the stock market crash and great depression.
Muskegon is on the West coast of lower peninsula, about halfway to the bridge from Chicago
Any place that has a '61 4020 John Deere behind the bar, and a '52 Chevy truck against the far wall, is worth taking a look at.
read about it in the Rolling Stone: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/how-luke-bryan-jason-aldean-theme-bars-are-remaking-nashvilles-broadway-721634 to learn it's owned by a serial restaurantuer, from Ohio, as well as the Luke Bryant restaurant next door, the two restaurants share the same kitchen
In the news, charter planes and busses were used this week by the governors of Texas, Arizona, and Florida... to make a hilarious political point, forcing the lefty liberal democrats who reside safe (and far North) of the USA/Mexico border (and the flood of 2 million illegals a year) to prove they can live with their immigrant welcoming rhetoric - because NOW the proverbial chickens have come home to roost
While some Democrats are blasting Florida Gov DeSantis for sending migrants to Martha's Vineyard, a county official, Keith Chatinover, a progressive county commissioner for Dukes County, Massachusetts, where Martha's Vineyard is located, said less than a year ago that he would "love" to see the area become a home for immigrants.
He said that in response to Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who was pushing a bill for Democrat-led areas like Martha's Vineyard to become ports of entry for processing migrants coming in from the southern border.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/busloads-migrants-dropped-off-vp-harris-residence-89952888
I heard the Martha's Vineyard homeless advocate (Seriously, they have homeless on Martha's Vineyard?) declared a "humanitarian crisis" and called the national guard (!) to deal with the plane load of illegals that arrived suddenly and unexpectedly on the billionaire retirement island.
Ken Burns, famous documentary maker, likened the country club island's new 50 residents appearance, as the like the holocaust. Yes, the genocide of the Jewish people by the Nazis. https://nypost.com/2022/09/16/ken-burns-likens-relocation-of-migrants-to-rise-of-nazis/
Martha's Vineyard is an island of 15,000 people, and at least 2 presidential dynasty families, with a dozen country clubs, at least 3 yacht clubs, 16 art galleries, and it is part of the state of Massachusetts.
About 60% of the residents are only seasonal, and they are mostly megawealthy, like Oprah, the Obamas, the Clintons, and Hollywood A listers
today I heard from a relative of the inventor of the Prescott steam car!
here's the only one I've ever found in person, and Nick says he's going to road trip, and dig into family history, and make a book... so I hope to learn a lot more about this steam car manufacturer from him in the future.
One very cool side effect of having photographed, and posted my photos here on my car blog, is that about once a year, someone wants to trade me a copy of the book that they are going to make, for the use of my photos of whatever they have an interest in.
https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2014/05/1902-prescott-style-10c-steam-powered.html is the full gallery.
Most amazingly, one of the 1st people to want to use some of my photos, was Randy, the Blastolene genius, who made a book of the many Blastolene vehicles he's made or been involved with.
I discovered by accident, what that plane is that they used in Jurassic Park World Dominion
Following the end of World War Two, the French Air Force found itself with two military transports, the German Junkers Ju 52, which for a short while, was manufactured in France. The second aircraft was surplus American Douglas C-47 Skytrains
Neither were efficient for loading cargo, with side doors, so, in 1947, looking to modernize the military, France's competition for aircraft manufacturers to develop a modern medium-weight cargo aircraft resulted in SNCAN coming up with an innovative design that featured rear clamshell doors.
https://simpleflying.com/nord-noratlas-history/
dammmnnnn! Those Fiat 500s were tiny! (an all caps for emphasis "TINY" is a contradiction, isn't it?)
A.L.I technology's Xturismo hoverbike made its US debut at the Detroit Auto Show, drawing comparisons to the speeder bikes of "Star Wars."
it only costs 3/4s of a million dollars for the Japan version, and no, they aren't going to sell those in the USA, their plan is to make a smaller version, electric... Yeah, that's not likely. Batteries weigh too damn much to power aircraft for the duration buyers will demand.
amazing... someone in Platteville, Wisconsin has a pair of mules that move a 3 wheel, steel wheel (no pneumatic tires) type of forklift to unload a semi trailer
Looks Amish, so, why the motor that powers the hydraulics? Man, they cheat!
Thursday, September 15, 2022
The German government has sold off its last shares in Lufthansa The airline recently returned to profitability after reporting its first quarterly profit since the outbreak of the pandemic.
the current and previous German government and taxpayers supported Lufthansa during the most severe financial crisis in the company's history during the covid shutdown. The stabilization of Lufthansa was successful, and is now paying off financially for the German government and thus for the taxpayer
The airline recently returned to profitability after reporting its first quarterly profit since the outbreak of the pandemic.
2 tourists and a tour guide are dead after the 2022 Jeep Gladiator they were traveling in fell nearly 250 feet from a popular off-road trail near Imogene Pass in Colorado.
