Monday, May 20, 2024
Retired from the road in 1994, this SC/Rambler has been sitting for 30 years as of 2024. The seller wants 46k
Surprisingly enough, the hardtop is still in solid condition and retains its numbers-matching 390 V8 and four-speed manual transmission.
Sunday, May 19, 2024
Marine Corps veteran's handbuilt bike stolen from a locked outdoor enclosure at the VA Recovery Center in Vancouver.
"I put everything into that bike because it was my baby," said Romo.
"I would have been happier to donate that bike so that the person that's riding it can know what that bike meant and what that bike brought to me, and my hopes that it would bring the same to someone else. But it's not going to do that now."
Romo served nine years with the Marines. That included combat time at the onset of the Iraq War.
"I was on the berm as the scud [missile] attacks were coming in," said Romo, noting he was never the same after leaving the military. "I was struggling quite a bit with post-traumatic stress and then later with substance abuse and then alcohol abuse."
Romo said a big part of his therapy came from the outdoors, physical activity in nature, especially mountain biking. Romo built the bike himself after taking welding classes and saving money for quality bike parts.
"The mountain bike immediately took me out of [my head] and gave me moments where I was present, where I didn't have to suffer," said Romo. "That's why that bike meant so much to me and that's why so much went into that build."
"I was on the berm as the scud [missile] attacks were coming in," said Romo, noting he was never the same after leaving the military. "I was struggling quite a bit with post-traumatic stress and then later with substance abuse and then alcohol abuse."
Romo said a big part of his therapy came from the outdoors, physical activity in nature, especially mountain biking. Romo built the bike himself after taking welding classes and saving money for quality bike parts.
"The mountain bike immediately took me out of [my head] and gave me moments where I was present, where I didn't have to suffer," said Romo. "That's why that bike meant so much to me and that's why so much went into that build."
He hopes people who know bikes will recognize the red, Chris King components, or the Fox 36 fork, or the titanium frame, and wheels. Anyone with information on the bike's whereabouts was asked to call Vancouver Police Tip Line at 360-487-7399.
Russian troops have been riding into battle in trucks, open-top golf carts and—more recently—motorcycles. The bikes allow them to reach trenches faster and they are harder to spot.
Swapping bigger vehicles for bikes has cost some Russian units dearly. On or around April 15, the Ukrainian army’s 92nd Assault Brigade defeated an attack by Russian motorcycle troops outside of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine.
Three weeks later, around May 7, the Ukrainian 79th Air Assault Brigade destroyed eight motorcycles during a Russian assault on Novomykhailivka, also in the east. The Russians “were beaten in the teeth,” the brigade quipped on social media.
Finally, good news! Jeremy Clarkson might be buying a pub!
Jeremy Clarkson is clearly passionate about championing British farming and one way to do that is to ensure a local pub serves locally produced food and drinks in a family atmosphere with affordable pricing.
Hawkstone is the brainchild of Jeremy Clarkson and Rick & Emma from the Cotswold Brew Co. Having put blood, sweat and tears into cultivating his malting barley, Jeremy was determined that it be put to good use, so resolved to supply it directly to a local brewery to turn into lager.
The Coach & Horses Inn, an 18th century pub, is just across the road from Hawkstone Brewery and earlier this year it had its new premises license approved by Cotswold District Council, it was granted a license to sell alcohol from 11am to 11pm seven days a week.
It will be let to a tenant at some point in the future and is being marketed on Stonegate Group's website. According to locals the venue was last used as a pub and curry house.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1899011/jeremy-clarkson-new-cotswolds-pub
The Coach & Horses Inn, an 18th century pub, is just across the road from Hawkstone Brewery and earlier this year it had its new premises license approved by Cotswold District Council, it was granted a license to sell alcohol from 11am to 11pm seven days a week.
It will be let to a tenant at some point in the future and is being marketed on Stonegate Group's website. According to locals the venue was last used as a pub and curry house.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1899011/jeremy-clarkson-new-cotswolds-pub
In a grassroots effort, Airmen around the world are coming together to remember Senior Airman Roger Fortson, 23, who was murdered by a sheriff’s deputy in Florida on May 3.
a deputy shot Fortson six times after the Airman opened his apartment door while holding his legally-owned handgun at his side, pointing downwards.
Senior Airman Fortson was a combat veteran. He answered the nation's call to take the fight to our enemies over the skies of Iraq, Syria. He took part in Special Operations missions, taking care of U.S. national security impact, and for the efforts he was awarded the Air Medal
He was not a suspect, he was not involved in any crime, he was black. He was not even at the address the cop was supposed to go to.
Footage from the deputy’s body camera shows him at first knocking on the door and identifying himself while standing to the side. He then knocked again, and when Fortson opened the door, the deputy told Fortson to step back before shooting him six times.
Because that's what cops do. Then they claim they "feared for their life" because this, is the excuse that they've been told gets them off the hook for murder.
I wanna know, if they actually fear for their life, why are they going out on calls alone? Why aren't they trained how to avoid putting their lives on the line, instead of facing the truth, that they volunteered to do a job knowing they will likely be in danger, BUT NOT FROM ANYONE WHO SIMPLY IS BLACK
Here's a question. IF cops are so freaked out about dying, because in this case a guy has a gun NOT pointed up, do the cops get freaked out when they see other cops having guns? Are they a bunch of nervous tip toe dancing pansies when standing in formation with other cops? Does a donut shop give them nightmares of seeing cops with guns eating the donuts they want?
Only AFTER the cop killed Fortson, did he yell "Drop the gun"
Toyota was forced to repeatedly halt production at a Mexico plant in February and March after local labor shortages
local labour shortages snarled output at suppliers, and the stoppages illustrate a potential choke point for the world's top automaker, which plans to produce 10 million vehicles this year.
Toyota halted production for a total 19 days in February and March at its plant in Tijuana, Mexico, where it makes the Tacoma pick-up truck, according to two of the people. Technical issues at the plant were also a factor in the stoppage, they said.
Reuters spoke to four people at suppliers and Toyota. All of them declined to be identified because the information has not been made public. Toyota is now working with some suppliers to ease the strain. Still, some parts makers are barely managing to keep production going because of the worker shortage, one of the people said.
thieves targeted a Lincoln dealership in Colorado recently and made off with tens of thousands of dollars in wheels, tires, and even brake components, on two different occasions.
car dealerships are too cheap, or incompetent to hire guards... and hell, they get the insurance to pay for the loss anyway. Insurance companies only insist on security cameras, and you can see for yourself, that means nothing but a video record of the crime in progress.
BOLO red Corvette, stolen from Oakland Ca.... a month ago
In that time, the 80-year-old has rebuilt the car’s engine, reupholstering its seat and slapping a fresh coat of cherry red on the beloved vehicle.
Car thefts in his area have doubled in 3 years, from 8,700 in 2020 to 14,700 reported in 2023.
I just did a job application with a nimrod who 1) wasn't honest about the part time ONLY job 2) won't pay attention to constructive criticism 3) is using Office Depot amateur hour job application form with one glaring error. See if you can spot it. I did, I am also proofreader.
He asked me to meet him at a Rubios outside dining area. He didn't have the respect or courtesy to even make a purchase, just used their table, chairs, and patio for his job interviews.
I had got there about 15 minutes early, as usual, and bought a medium, my bad, there are no "small medium large" anymore, it's "regular" diet coke.
Now, in a way that's clever money savings, but, still... no class. Like the Cosby kids used to say. Plus, while arranging a meeting at a restaurant, did not offer to buy lunch. Seriously? Wtf are you meeting at a restaurant for? To use their patio furniture? Meet in a Home Depot, you uncouth yabbo. Park in someone else's driveway much?
I ask any of you... or all of you, what's that say about the business he's running? To me, unprofessional, half ass, incompetent.
Did you spot the spelling error in that form? certiÿcations There were other errors, grammatical ones "Motivated Military Movers or I may terminate my employment at any time with or without cause. I agree to provide a two week notices if I choose to resign from the company."
See the contradiction, and the grammar error in that one? Serious amateur hour bullshit going on.
This was the 3rd interview in 3 days. Seriously, every one of them were by amateurs. How the hell am I better qualified to do hiring interviews than these company people?
Saturday, May 18, 2024
the 1st taco stand a Michelin star has been awarded to
Chef Arturo Rivera MartÃnez has stood over an insanely hot grill for 20 years at Mexico City’s Tacos El Califa de León, searing meat in a 10-foot by 10-foot business where there are only four things on the menu, all tacos, and it's earned him the 1st Michelin star that has been awarded to a taco stand among the 1 6 Mexican restaurants given one star
In fact, other than perhaps one street food stand in Bangkok, https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2019/04/update-to-michelin-star-for-street-food.html El Califa de León is probably the smallest restaurant ever to get a Michelin star: Half of the 100 square-foot space is taken up by a solid steel plate grill
El Califa de León is a tribute to resistance to change. It got there by doing exactly the same four things it has been doing since 1968.
Stephan Marjoram went to Montlhery and photographed how many approaches have been tried in building a motor vehicle
Video of the above in action, rolling and retracting outriggers https://www.facebook.com/stefanmarjoramart/videos/1639501153555785/
in response to yesterday's airplanes on album covers, Kim sent me one that had been overlooked! Blue Oyster Cult!
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thank you Kim!
Even cooler than yesterday's album covers, as I prefer the look of hand drawn art!
PLUS! This is the only one featuring a WW2 era Luftwaffe plane. In this case the Messerschmitt 262
But here's something I just learned yesterday about the Blue Oyster Cult, and I will guess, you are going to learn this for the first time too. I hope so, I love to surprise and entertain all of you.
A metal umlaut (also known as röck döts) is a diacritic that is sometimes used gratuitously or decoratively over letters in the names of mainly hard rock or heavy metal bands—for example, those of Blue Öyster Cult, Queensrÿche, Motörhead, the Accüsed, Mötley Crüe and the parody bands Spın̈al Tap and Green Jellÿ...
Among English speakers, the use of umlaut marks and other diacritics with a blackletter typeface is a form of foreign branding, which has been attributed to a desire for a "gothic horror" feel.
The metal umlaut is not generally intended to affect the pronunciation of the band's name.
As Vince Neil recounts: "I can remember it like it was yesterday. We were drinking Löwenbräu, and when we decided to call ourselves Mötley Crüe, we put some umlauts in there because we thought it made us look European. We had no idea that it was a pronunciation thing.
Folding BSA bicycles storming the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, who knew? Oh... probably Steve B!
folding BSA bikes used by the Canadian infantry (about 1,000 bike riders out of 14,000 men) at Juno Beach (second wave).
The Canadians had successfully used them previously during the invasion of Sicily.
After the soldiers were done with them, they just tossed them aside and many civilians suddenly had new wheels.
Friday, May 17, 2024
Do you remember the 1971 Paul Newman movie Once Upon A Wheel? A documentary on the history of auto racing
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0413072
Paul Newman narrated this documentary that is clearly meant to explain why so many people enjoy racing.
The film is broken down into several categories including the men who race, the motors in the cars, those who watch and of course the wives of the men who drive. This documentary was originally shown on ABC and Newman not only promoted the film but also appeared on the cover of TV Guide.
Movie fans will be entertained since they get to see not only Newman but various other celebrities including Kirk Douglas, John Wayne, Dick Smothers, Cesar Romero, James Garner, Glenn Ford, Hugh Downs and Chuck Connors.
The documentary really isn't going to teach anyone much as people are already going to know the majority of the stuff discussed here
It's important to know its goal then was to show America why they should be watching the sport.
Today I think it's mainly of interest to those wanting to see some famous actors of the 1960s and 70s outside their movie roles
Major General William Kepner, boss of the 8th Fighter Command, he got around in style in his P-47.
What? How many pins did he have above his right breast pocket? Huh, only 1. In the Navy, you can wear at least 2 warfare pins
From 1909 to 1913, Kepner served in the US Marine Corps, then the Indiana National Guard. After a short spell in the US cavalry, in 1917 he transferred to the infantry as a captain and commanded a company at the Battle of Chateau-Thierry. He subsequently lead the 3rd Battalion of the 4th US Infantry in the Meuse-Argonne offensive.
In 1920, at the age of 27, he transferred to the US Army Air Corps and trained as a balloon pilot, then subsequently as an airship pilot.
From 1927 to 1929 he participated very prominently in several US national and international balloon races, most notably winning the prestigious Gordon Bennett Cup with co-pilot William Olmstead Eareckson in June 1928.
In the summer of 1934, Kepner took command of the joint National Geographic Society - US Army Air Corps Stratosphere Flight near Rapid City, South Dakota to make an attempt with the specially constructed balloon Explorer on the manned balloon altitude record.
Prior to leaving for Europe in 1942, Kepner demanded increased fuel capacity in aircraft like the P-38 and P-51. He demanded fuel be put into the wings of the aircraft, only to be told it couldn't be done by Lockheed. When he insisted they comply, complaints by the companies to Material Division (Wright Field) resulted in a threat to have charges laid against him for tampering with aircraft specifications. Fortunately, he was backed by Maj Gen Barney Giles and the modifications went ahead. These later proved critical in enabling the USAAF to introduce fighters with sufficient range to enable escort of bombers on deep penetration missions into Germany.
Anyone wanna bet that Brett Kepner is related to him?
I never noticed until I got an email from Bruce... but some speedshops had their name on a LOT of famous funnycars and drag super stockers (thanks Bruce!)
Steve was 17 when he and his brother opened a small shop in the basement of their folks home, a small Pennsylvania cattle ranch. Street racing was big at the time; real American Graffiti-type stuff.
Other Kanuika cars included his C/Gas Willys pickup with a 301-inch injected mouse motor. It set the record at 10.80, 127mph and even made the cover of Drag Times.
Ice cream time, Los Angeles, Mines Field, 1943. ... dang it, it's universal, happens everywhere that an ice cream truck driver can get to! Thank you John S!
Notice one has a three-bladed propeller, the other a 4 blade
Thursday, May 16, 2024
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