here's a short clip a driving instructor put online of terrible driving student behavior... I wish that someone would make a tv show about a driving school, it's instructors, and it's students.

 https://www.tumblr.com/armengoldira/758943648118439936?source=share

GM is getting sued by Texas state Attorney General over the fact that its OnStar Smart Driver feature was collecting driving data that was being sold to third parties without their consent, for insurance companies to raise premiums in some cases.

 https://fordauthority.com/2024/08/ford-rival-gm-sued-by-texas-over-alleged-privacy-abuses/

Utopeia Moto Company in Texas is known for building offbeat scramblers, this is a 1973 125cc Harley two-stroke off-roader, built by Aermacchi back when Harley owned half of the Italian company.

 

Produced from 1969 until 1972, it was designed to help Harley break into the small displacement off-road market.

https://www.bikeexif.com/harley-davidson-baja-100

Lamborghini’s new “baby” supercar, the Temerario, with 800-hp twin-turbo with three electric motors.

https://www.motor1.com/news/730201/lamborghini-temerario-fun-facts/

great license plate

spotted in Scripps Ranch yesterday, ever see a dualie ex USMC trailer before? I never have. It's a 74" x 9' M105 Military Utility Trailer, with Pintle Ring Coupler

I stumbled across a new tv show, Spaced Out, about interior decorating of the blank check variety

this 74 Countach S is hanging on anchors to the steel beams in the walls, with cables around the back, because this car was a beach car that had been stored too long in the salt air by the beach, and the gas tank was so rusty that it made a repair not economically feasible. The big issue was blowing out the oil and brake fluid so that there would be no leaks down the wall

Yes, a Lambo on the wall as interior decorating. Like I said, blank check variety

1967 Dodge military truck

This model of the TWA Constellation, claims it was outside Howard Hughes' office, and since he was the majority stockholder or owner of TWA, that makes sense. He also requested a 40-passenger transcontinental airliner with a range of 3,500 miles, and that requirement led to the Constellation, designed by Lockheed engineers, including Kelly Johnson.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Constellation

I don't think I'd heard until now that Loewy had designed the Scenicruiser

 http://www.loewy-raymond.de/eng/legendary-scenicruiser/

ever see a master of the wheel barrow?

 reminder that the 1 wheel wheelbarrow design is crap, invented by people with damn narrow pathways

I didn't even know that skateboarding was on the Olympics schedule

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1059381339087019&set=a.615930480098776

great racing cheating methods of the 80s and 90s

Above, Allison's Regal that won the 82 Daytona 500 without a rear bumper

time lapse build of the 1988 McLaren F1 (change video settings to 2x to move it along)

Making the tires is VERY damn clever

it would be in your best interests to never give kids coloring markers unless they are Crayola washable markers.

As is typically the case, I get to wondering about things, and though we are all familiar with Crayola, it struck me that I don't know the origin of the word Crayola, so, I looked it up,

Originally the Binney & Smith Company was founded by cousins in 1885. Initial products were colorants for industrial use, including red iron oxide pigments used in barn paint and carbon black chemicals used for making tires black and extending their useful lifespan.

Binney & Smith's new process of creating inexpensive black colorants was entered into the chemistry industries competition at the 1900 Paris Exposition under the title "carbon gas blacks, lamp or oil blacks, 'Peerless' black" and earned the company a gold medal award in chemical and pharmaceutical arts.

Also in 1900, the company added production of slate school pencils. Binney's experimentation with industrial materials, including slate waste, cement, and talc, led to the invention of the first dustless white chalk, for which the company won a gold medal at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.

Crayola soon shifted its focus to art products for home and school use, beginning with chalk, then crayons, followed later by colored pencils, markers, paints, modeling clay, and other related goods. 

Binney's wife, Alice, a former schoolteacher, created the brand name Crayola from French words for "chalk oily". The suffix "-ola" was also popular in commercial use at the time, lending itself to products such as granola (1886), Victrola (1905), Shinola (1907), and Mazola (1911).

All Crayola-branded products are marketed as nontoxic and safe for use by children. Most Crayola crayons are manufactured in the United States

 Since 1984, Crayola has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Hallmark Cards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crayola

Keith sent me photo of the Orlando TurboDatsunGP-CamperRama5000 ! Thank you Keith! That got me started looking online for other photos of it

on the chin splitter it says Vague, so that's a good place to start, and that turned out to be something known as Vague Industries

https://www.instagram.com/vagueindustries/

https://www.facebook.com/vagueIndustries

1928 Plymouth DeSoto paperweight

 

https://check_the_oil_promotions_llc.liveauctioneers.com/item/183961366_1928-chrysler-plymouth-de-soto-horseshoe-paperweight

it's amazing to me that these complimentary dealership advertising fans have lasted for decades

 

https://check_the_oil_promotions_llc.liveauctioneers.com/catalog/339569_september-automobilia-auction-1/

I've never heard of "glow fuel" before, but I recognize what it is, 1960s-70s model airplane engine gas... those were glow plug ignited.. and this stuff was methanol, and NITRO Methane!

 

I'm sure someone tried adding this to a go cart engine to see it it would make the go cart faster, or riding lawnmower

Furiosa is now streaming on Max... and it's much better than any other Mad Max movie

 I think you'll agree

The story is better, the vehicles are cooler. 

I don't think the actors are better, just different, and it isn't easy to top Fury Road. But they did it. Chris Hemsworth is unrecognizable. that's how good of an actor he is.

I hope they make another... with Furiosa they proved that there is a lot more of that post-apocalyptic world to explore and more stories to tell, like the origin of gastown and bullet town

interesting way to make something from junkyard stuff for you tube video content,... just cut the front off a junkyard car and put it on the front of a travel trailer...

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/a-busted-and-mistreated-1930s-dodge-and-junkyard-camper-unite-to-birth-the-cabana-car-238365.html#

There were 1969 Mustang Grandé and 1970 Barracuda Gran Coupes...

I see the connection. 

I wonder, were there other "grand"/"gran" models of muscle cars in the 1969-1970 season? 

Oh, yeah, the 1969 Buick Gran Sport Stage 1 455, and Riviera Gran Sport

and the Grand Prix

there are still a lot of muscle cars sitting in the same spot for decades

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/1968-plymouth-road-runner-spent-40-years-in-the-woods-original-v8-still-under-the-hood-238433.html#