Saturday, June 29, 2024
Friday, June 28, 2024
Thursday, June 27, 2024
there still is zero news on John Force's injuries, or IF he got badly injured, OR NOT. The family and hospital STILL haven't said what his injuries might be!
unspecified possible head injury has him in the "a neuro intensive care unit for an unspecified head injury"
https://www.thedrive.com/news/john-force-transferred-to-neuro-icu-days-after-300-mph-crash
Why did they even bother, this isn't news. Moving from the trauma ward to the ICU, is that from bad to worse? Or bad to better?
cool nose art on the B-29 "Katie"
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=156761560366053&set=pb.100080966302726.-2207520000
Tex Avery's wolves had this girl chasing schtick, but longer muzzles and ears, so maybe Disney?
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
you know how in March and April, I post Happy 413 Day, and 327, 318, all the engine sizes? And it's a good thing? Well, it's 626 day, and there ain't much that's ever been interesting about a 626, except that this one was almost on the Peking to Paris rally
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
A man was taken into custody after police said he stole a skid-steer from a construction site and took it on a joyride in downtown Nashville.... to use it to steal a barrel of Jack Daniel’s
an Australian driver in Sydney was fined $387 after traffic cameras photographed her holding phone—or a sunglasses case
What stopped ice cream trucks from roaming Orillia Ontario? The new permitting process made it too expensive, as it has 2 components an ice cream vendor can't afford
a four-foot-long wiper blade is too much for the Tesla cyber truck's wiper motor to handle, and caused a recall... wasn't it obvious to the stupidest engineer on staff that a long blade needed a bigger motor to push the weight of water off the windshield?
there were multiple reports of malfunctioning wipers prior to the recall, which is due to the wiper motor controller failing as a result of “electrical overstress,” as NHTSA describes.
Monday, June 24, 2024
B-24 'Doodlebug' of the 373rd Bomb Squadron, 308th Bomb Group.
I kid you not, I have very little time to post much, with this new job
I met the new VP of my old car club today, and we shot the breeze over cars and Navy stuff for a couple hours well spent in good company!
He's a surface ET, I was a Submariner ET, he's got a 70 Hemi Cuda, and a 70 Dodge truck, I've got a 69 Coronet R/T.
Time flies when you're shooting the breeze about cars and car parts!
Anyway, most workdays I don't have much time to post much, and it's usually due to one thing or another
Sunday, June 23, 2024
Oddballs: The Shermans of ‘Kelly’s Heroes’
The Shermans of Kelly’s Heroes were a rather special model, one of the less well-known and less common to appear. The M4A3E4 was a post-war development of the M4A3. It took the standard model of M4A3 – welded hull, vertical volute suspension (VVSS), early turret, Ford GAA V8 engine – and up-gunned them with the addition of the 76 mm Tank Gun M1. Other additions to the older turret – such as the ‘All-Round Vision Cupola’ and cut-in loader’s hatch – were made to the Sherman between 1943 and 1944. Despite their use as such in the film, the E4s never served the US Military. Having previously trialed this configuration prior to the adoption of the T23 turret. However, it was found to be much too cramped for US military tastes.
Bob and Doreen transformed a 2014 Class C Mercedes chassis Sprinter van and Forest River Solera RV into their dream 1950 Spartanette RV
There was only one Mustang SS... the Super Snake, and I just learned the engine in it was pulled out of the GT40 racer that won four successive 24 Hours of Le Mans
a Nissan dealership in Vermont was bilked of a half million dollars by it's parts manager. He sold the parts on Facebook!
one tire shop in Fresno distinguished itself for having a surplus Waco CG-4A combat glider, similar to the ones used during the D-Day landings in Normandy, on it's roof
bought from Canada for $50, and transported to Seattle, this was one of many planes sold to gas station owners for displays after WW2
an Avro Shackleton perched above a Sasol service station near Johannesburg, South Africa, formerly known as Vic’s Viking Garage.
The South African Shackleton was brought to its present location in 1987, and in doing so, it played a role in the preservation of another large aircraft that had previously been perched upon the service station, a Vickers Viking airliner, which is now the last of its kind preserved in South Africa.