It was featured in Mustang Monthly in 2009
Thursday, July 04, 2024
Did you ever hear how Dan Gurney won the 1962 Daytona Continental Sport Car race? (a race I've never heard of) Thank you Mike!
Dan Gurney had built up a good lead when he had serious engine difficulties, the crankshaft had failed.
Because of his position on the track, he was able to coast towards the finish line, but he knew that the car was done, and might only have a single lap left in it.
Unfortunately for him, the three hour duration had not yet occurred, so he stopped the car short of the finish line and had to wait for the three hour duration to be reached. When the time had expired, he used the starter motor to move the car across the finish line and win.
FWIW, someone is making a book about Norm's skullshifter knobs... aka Normskulls, and it's supposed to be sold this fall
I read that Norm sold these in a Crown Royal bag
Rumpsville will offer a 60 page hard bound book featuring a photographic collection of over 200 uniquely hand carved wooden skull themed sculptures produced by Norm Grabowski between 2000-2010
by the way, I never saw this until now, his Henway was featured on the cover of the March 1974 issue of Rod & Custom magazine.
wow, try and figure this out, the dealership wants 150 dollars for the wiper fluid pump on my commuter, but Amazon sells them for, I shit you not, 80% / one fifth that amount, just 30 dollars
and that is exactly the part number the nice parts guy at the dealership showed me:
just what the hell is up with such a rip off? Some mark up is expected, most sales are 300% of wholesale, but this situation is 500%!!
this is awesome, some guy took apart his Charger's dash and found this detailed book of his car's maintenance from 1974, that is very cool! I love found stuff, and history from an original owner
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=122184807638066968&set=pcb.7552943964827533
an underwater recovery duo found a Nissan 300ZX at the bottom of a river after decades of it being underwater
the Gold Coast Muscle Car Museum is a private collection of Australian muscle cars of the 1950-70s, located in Bundall, near Gold Coast
It's been 3 years since an explosion of fireworks in South Los Angeles displaced dozens of residents, when the LAPD explosives demo team effed up the job of disposing of fireworks for crying out loud... fireworks!
LA City Council had to approve a 21 million dollar settlement, because instead of forcing the LAPD to learn a profession, and train to do a job right... LAPD fucked up again.
LAPD couldn't take the advice of ONE team member who KNEW they were going to blow up the damn bomb disposal truck.
LAPD couln't WEIGH the damn fireworks to SAFELY load the bomb disposal truck UNDER the limit!
The bomb squad packed 42 pounds of explosives into 33 pound limit bomb disposal truck, that's just fucking stupid, what's worse? They thought they put 10 pounds into it. Yeah, under-estimated by 75 percent! https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2021/07/seventeen-people-injured-as-controlled.html
The armored containment vessel that was rated for only 33 pounds, according to a federal report. The fireworks were supposed to be detonated safely at the scene because they were too unstable to move but the vessel exploded, and debris rained down on scores of residences, businesses and vehicles.
The explosion injured 10 law enforcement officers and seven residents and damaged 22 homes, 13 businesses and 37 cars and trucks. About 80 people were displaced and some have yet to return to the neighborhood.
Federal investigators said that bomb squad technicians underestimated the weight of the explosive material because they gauged it by sight instead of using a scale, and also ignored the warnings of a team member who said the explosive material should be broken into smaller loads.
The Los Angeles Police Department has admitted fault for the explosion
If you're offended by the use of the term RETARDS to describe people who act stupid, because it's no longer socially acceptable after the large number of mentally handicapped kids born to drug users who caused their kids to be autistic, what in the 70s we knew as "retarded" then ok. Be offended by the words I use, and ignore the situation which inept, inexperienced, untrained, unable or unwilling to SAFELY do a job that was NOT an emergency rush.
I just learned that Hank died last year at age 99, and his Cobra (CSX 2227) is getting sold at Mecum, just like he predicted. His kids didn't want it at all, but knew it's worth millions, as Hank had been offered 2M, and they'd eventually auction it off
from 15 to 10 years ago, Hank drove his Cobra to a LOT of car shows, little local ones (Simpson's Nursery), and bigger ones like the Knotts Berry Farm Fabulous Fords. If you went to a good sized car show, you probably saw it, and I posted about it a couple of times, as it's a REMARKABLE car, and Hank was a really cool guy!
One of the last original owner Cobras, this is also one of the most raced, as I've thoroughly written about in the above linked articles, Hank entered nearly 400 races, including SCCA, Solo 1, rallies, slaloms, and private club events, and received over 260 trophies and awards.
Wednesday, July 03, 2024
it's the small moments in life that cause you to think about your decisions.... it's not the 1/3rd of your life you're asleep, or 1/3'd of your life you're at work. Nope. It's the "OH SHIT" panic moments when you have zero idea how to cope
biking along when the lights go off... or being in an elevator when the electricity fails...
It's things like that when I have had serious moments of realizing I've made BAD decisions, and am in, WAY over my head
https://ogdaa.blogspot.com/2024/07/wednesdays-gifs.html#more
the Ford CEO recently admitted that the company lost billions selling sedans in the U.S. – which is why it chose to discontinue them.
So, now that the EV is clearly not a good idea to invest all the corporate future on, and Ford lost it's shirt on sedans, GM and Chrysler went bankrupt ... is it finally clear that Ford needs to revert to the winning formula it had for 6 decades until 1971?
Inexpensive small 2 door cars (model t, T bird, Mustang) changed the world, and exerted Ford's dominance around the world.
It's also how VW Beetles had 30 or 40 years of success
It's how Honda and Toyota shut down the American car market.
Does anyone not understand that the best selling cars in the world have always been the lest expensive? (Model T, VW Beetle)
This was a huge surprise, a 73 Sport Satellite that's been a daily driver for 51 years!
