https://what3words.com/ something I learned of at SEMA 2022! https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2023/01/theres-new-and-effective-way-to-give.html
Saturday, May 11, 2024
this cart, as primitive as it is, has 16 tons of iron on it
Friday, May 10, 2024
This license plate “F46 LGB”... is a challenge to figure out without looking it up on google... just to figure out what the hell it means, before you can try to figure out why the Ohio license bureau insists it will not get made
Here's how it gets more ridiculous, Ohio has made plates with LGB and F46.
So, in other plates, those parts were not censored, they weren't even noticed.
But when put together, F46 LGB is a problem that the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles can not tolerate.
Odd right?
So, what the hell is the censored meaning of F46 LGB? Fuck Joe Biden Let's Go Brandon.
Seriously, I had to look that up, I did not see a thing when I read F46 LGB.
Jeffrey Wonser filed a complaint last week in Ohio’s Southern District federal court.
The lawsuit also alleges the BMV’s review process has been more lenient to anti-Republican messages, choosing to approve “FDT” and “IH8GOP”
“Under such a system, the BMV’s censors can simply search for obscure justifications to prohibit any messages they don’t like,” it reads. “And they often simply defer to the tastes of random bozos on the internet.”
The complaint alleges violations of the First Amendment and seeks to have the court declare the BMV’s license plate screening guidelines to be unconstitutional and bar the BMV from enforcing them — and also to approve Wonser’s license plate.
I've posted 431 times on license plates, https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/license%20plates so it's too time consuming for me to go back through them to find the one I'm thinking of, but I believe the matter was already settled in court, that this is clearly the govt interfering in the first amendment freedom of speech constitutional right of the people from government interference.
Thursday, May 09, 2024
enthusiast and talented tinkerer Kelvin Elsner has been working on this custom 80s digital gauge cluster for months his quest to make a unique, modern, guages for his 300ZX
Increase the speed of this video's settings to at least 1.25... he is a slow talker.
Skip the first 90 seconds... please, save yourself, it's too late for me.
Skip from 3:30 to 10:30 trust me, you won't miss anything
He's not an automotive engineer by trade, considers this project a hobby, and doesn't currently have any plans for mass production or marketing for sale.
Hertz... seems determined to create their own bad publicity. This time, they insisted they fueled up a Tesla (electric car, but they claim they put over 270 dollars of gas into it)
Hertz acknowledges that the customer was charged for refueling an electric car, which isn't possible, but it's defended that claim on the basis that the agreed-upon "service was provided."
Hertz still refuses to refund the $277
Reckless, a horse born in June 1948 in South Korea, bred to be a racehorse, but never had a chance to race because the Korean War broke out in 1950 when she was two-years-old. The Marine Corps not only fell in love with her - but honored her and promoted her every chance they got.
She was estimated to be three or four years old when purchased by the United States Marine Corps for $250 in October 1952 from a Korean stableboy at the Seoul racetrack who needed money to buy an artificial leg for his sister who had stepped on a land mine. She was trained to be a pack horse and used to carry ammunition and supplies for the Recoilless Rifle Platoon of the 5th Marine Regiment.
But it wasn’t long before Sergeant Reckless proved herself to be much more than just a pack animal. She quickly learned to navigate the treacherous terrain of the Korean War, carrying supplies and evacuating wounded soldiers to safety without hesitation. She often travelled to deliver supplies on her own, without a handler. In fact, she became so vital to the unit that they renamed themselves the “Reckless Rifle Platoon.”
On one particularly harrowing day, Sergeant Reckless made 51 trips to the front lines, carrying over 9,000 pounds of supplies and ammunition. She was hit by shrapnel twice, but she refused to stop working. She even made the trip up and down the steep and rocky hills with a wounded soldier on her back.
The Marines were very fond of her, feeding her treats like beer, Coca-Cola, and scrambled eggs. They even built her a special tent to sleep in, and she was allowed to roam freely through the camp.
Her most significant accomplishment came during the Battle Outpost Vegas/Vegas Hill in March '53, when she made 51 solo trips in a single day, carrying a total of 386 recoilless rounds (over 9,000 pounds, carrying four to eight 24-pound shells on each trip) covering over 35 miles that day.
When not on the front lines, Reckless packed other items for the platoon, and was particularly useful for stringing telephone wire. Carrying reels of wire on her pack that were played out as she walked, she could string as much wire as twelve men on foot.
She became the first horse in the Marine Corps known to have participated in an amphibious landing when the 5th moved from Camp Casey to Inchon, planning to participate in amphibious landings hundreds of miles south of Inchon.3] The commanding officer of the transport halted loading operations when he saw the platoon on the dock with Reckless. He refused to take her on board his clean ship, which had won an award for being the cleanest ship in the previous two years.
She was allowed on board after the Marines produced the loading plan, approved by him, which specifically listed Reckless and her equipment.
She also became the first horse in the Marine Corps known to have participated in an amphibious landing, and following the war was awarded two Purple Hearts, a Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal, inclusion in her unit's Presidential Unit Citations from two countries,
After the Korean War, Sergeant Reckless retired to Camp Pendleton, California, where she lived out the rest of her days. She passed away in 1968, but her legacy lived on. She was the first animal to be officially promoted to the rank of Sergeant in the United States Marine Corps, and she was recognized by LIFE Magazine as one of America’s 100 all-time heroes.
thank you George!
Berlinetta! A name on Ferrari's, and Camaros. What the hell, does Berlinetta mean?
1996 F355 Berlinetta
1987 Ferrari 328 GTB Berlinetta
There are a couple examples of the Ferrari Berlinetta, and of course Ferrari brought that word to the auto industry where GM/Chevrolet copied it, and tried to add some interest to boring 1979 through 1986 mid grade Camaros (less than Z28 and IROC Z).
Those really didn't have much going for them. Nothing really competed in that price point either, so...
I had a high school classmate with a 1982 Camaro, that he wanted to sell... in 1988 or 89, for 3200 I think it was. I got a ride in it, and did instantly fall for it.... all that 80s hard plastic boring flat dash was so representative of the early MTV era.
From https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2020/11/rare-rides-the-1984-chevrolet-camaro-berlinetta-a-sports-car-for-luxurious-people/ I get this info on "Berlinetta"
A luxury specification, its base engine was a 2.8-liter V6, though wealthier people opted for the 5.0 instead.
Exterior features found only on Berlinetta included the gold Berlinetta badges, headlamp insets painted in a contrast color to the body, and a unique finned alloy wheel design with gold tone and Berlinetta center caps.
Gold effects continued at the rear, with a glistening horizontal trim bar across the lamp assembly.Luxury Camaro customers would have to move on from Camaro after 1986, as GM saw fit to replace Berlinetta with LT for 1987.
The site https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/history-originality/620119-what-exactly-berlinetta.html says:
The Berlinetta was a premium luxury Camaro from 1982 - 1986 in the 3rd gen years. It did not have ground effects, so it would look like the Sport Coupe. It would normally come well optioned and could easily cost more than a Z28 of the same year. It also would be trimmed in gold on the exterior.
82-83 the Berlinetta basically was a Sport Coupe with tacky gold Camaro & Berlinetta emblems, gold stripes on the tail lights, different front turn signals as the turn signal switch is on the dash, not the column, a softer suspension, and gold aluminum 14" wheels.
84-86 Added the digital dash cluster, which used a completely unique dash shell, pedestal stereo, etc. Everything else remained about the same.
At it's most basic, it was a gold emblem package. It was aimed at female buyers, the most difficult demographic for car makers to appeal to. Women, generally, just don't care an iota for cars. They like horses, men like HORSEPOWER! as I've often heard.
If you knock off all the stupid emblems, and gold trim, you've got a Sport Coupe with a luxury suspension.
1982 comparison
For 1984, though, someone decided that the Berlinetta should also be the vanguard of the Camaro’s high-tech aspirations, and the Berlinetta got its own special dashboard complete with digital vacuum-fluorescent displays (VFD), numerical for the speedo and a little cool bar graph setup for the tachometer.
This sort of high-tech look and feel was clearly a marketing goal, as seen in commercials like this, where a high-tech woman with the high-tech job of what looks like suspension bridge design is sick of her simulations blinking the word PROBLEM over and over, so she takes to her appropriately high-tech Berlinetta to drive those pesky problems away
skip the first 40 seconds
former car dealership in Japan is a hoarders domain... with a LOT of classic Mini and other small cars. This is an active business run by a man whose family owns the building and cars. He buys and sells car from an office in the back and he lives upstairs in an apartment in the back.
amusing scene in a Youtube commercial ( you have no choice but to watch those for at least 15 seconds) with a cargo flatbed. I think you'll get a kick out of it too
It's just a funny scene leaning on the buffoon reputation of the storm troopers who are quite useless at most everything they are tasked with, especially shooting anything.
Wednesday, May 08, 2024
in Tron Legacy.... the son of Flynn has a sweet off the grid shipping container residence/garage
garage roll up doors front and back, on the waterfront, with a great view of the bridges
I have some serious good advice, that might seriously prevent a really bad day, or minimize it a LOT, based on my experience today with a dead car battery.
my car battery zonked out today, it just didn't have enough juice to get the commuter to turn on.
So, here's what I learned...
Hyundai didn't put in a monitor for the battery to tell the driver if the battery is charging, of the battery's state of charge.. nothing to warn me (or any driver) that the battery is near dead, not enough voltage to keep the car going.
And there was NO warning. Yesterday it was fine, today, not enough voltage to kick over the engine.
So, here's what I learned, and give as great advice:
try and change your battery right now, when it's not an emergency.
You'll find if it takes tools that you BETTER carry in your car or truck from now on, because every 4 or 5 years, the battery will simply be used up. My first in this car lasted 5 years, this lasted 4 (the blue decal at the bottom of the photo shows 4/20)
so, it's 200 bucks for a battery, basically, and since when they are used up there's no point in jumping the dead battery, you must replace it.
So, 200 dollars, roughly, and a couple of tools, in my case, a 12 inch extension to remove the foot that locks the battery in place, and a 1/2 inch socket, a socket wrench, and the battery cables tighten to the battery posts with nuts that are 10mm... but all I had was a small channel lock.
Follow up, I went through my tools, and selected a 1/4 inch drive, a 12 inch extention, a 1/2 inch 6 point socket, and a 10mm socket. That's exactly the least amount of tools I can swap out the battery with, so now those are in my glove box
after the experience I had replacing my battery, I grabbed a cheeseburger (well, a Double Double!) and here's what In N Out has for kids, or anyone else that asks for one
the stickers above can be put on anything, but, on the flip side, is a blank version of the dragstrip below
Nintendo bought ten Beetles from VW in 1998, and made "Pikabugs" with the Beetles, using them on Pokemon promotions throughout the aughts. One is for sale in Wisconsin
this video is very thorough, and explains their history, uses, and where a few are known to be currently