Thursday, July 04, 2024
FWIW, someone is making a book about Norm's skullshifter knobs... aka Normskulls, and it's supposed to be sold this fall
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
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!
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.
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
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)