Sunday, October 06, 2024

Karlo Flores left México when he was sixteen. He came back to race La Carrera Panamericana, racing something no one has ever seen at La Carrera, the GT40. And they made a film about the whole adventure








an American edition of the Salon Rétromobile will be held in North America in 2025 in partnership with the duPont Registry group

Thanks to Mark for this update on the Mooneyes documentary, they have had some screenings at different automotive museums and there will be an online screening next month for $15.

Craft of Speed has upcoming screening at the Segerstrom Shelby Event Center in Irvine, California live on November 16.

An online screening will also be available November 17-24.

Asheville, and every other town or city next to a river is my guess, has flooded before... Asheville had a historic flood in 1916 ... thank you George!


 Notice on the right, the street cars are half flooded


Chris Pine has a restored 65 Airstream on his LA front yard, and a small collection of cars... but I didn't know his dad was the Sgt on CHiPs


besides the 356 Speedster, Chris Pine also owns a Porsche 911T, a Mercedes-Benz SL W113, also known as the Pagoda, a Jaguar D-Type, an Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider, and a Honda S2000.

California Attorney General Bonta today urged California residents who purchased gas in Southern California between February 20, 2015 and November 10, 2015, Californians have until January 8, 2025 to submit a claim form,


In July, Attorney General Bonta announced a $50 million settlement with gas trading firms, resolving allegations that Vitol, Inc. and SK Energy Americas, Inc., along with its parent company SK Trading International, secretly worked together to tamper with and manipulate spot market prices for California gasoline. If you purchased gasoline in Los Angeles, San Diego, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Kern, Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and/or Imperial counties in California between February 20 and November 10, 2015, you may be eligible for a payment.

Under the settlement, Defendants have agreed to pay the total amount of $50 million into two settlement funds to resolve these allegations. Of this total, $37,500,000 will be distributed to consumers as compensation for violations of the Cartwright Act, subject to deductions for payments of taxes, administration costs, and attorneys’ fees and costs. $12,500,000 is assessed as a penalty under California’s Unfair Competition Law and will be used by state and local government to enforce consumer protection laws.

To submit a claim, learn full details about your rights and options, and access frequently asked questions, visit
www.CalGasLitigation.com .

https://www.goldrushcam.com/sierrasuntimes/index.php/news/local-news/60833-attorney-general-bonta-says-california-drivers-may-be-eligible-for-a-gas-settlement-payment 

the big take away from this? Gas trading firms were caught manipulating spot market prices for California gasoline, by the California Attorney General. 

That wasn't headline news. That wasn't even in the news. 

A Frontier Airlines plane that flew from San Diego to Las Vegas was caught on camera with flames and smoke shooting out of its undercarriage during landing.






Frontier Flight 1326 left San Diego International on time at 1:51 p.m. on Saturday, according to flight tracking website FlightAware. The Airbus A321neo landed at Harry Reid International Airport 37 minutes late, at 3:37 p.m.

Traffic wardens issued tickets for the background scenery vehicles on Daniel Day-Lewis film set, because the city wouldn't allow the movie production to have a permit that would shut down city streets in the area


Filming for the feature took place in Handbridge in Chester this week, but ran into some difficulties after the council declined an application for a road closure, and traffic wardens began issuing tickets for the 1980s prop vehicles parked on double yellow lines in the backdrop of a scene.

the council had decided to refuse a full road closure application as it was assessed as being too disruptive for residents, who could have been cut off because of roadworks nearby

“On the basis of the overall disruption it would cause, they said no on this occasion,” he said. “[The film company] hadn’t applied to suspend parking restrictions in that area so wardens were sent to ticket the cars in the same way they would for any vehicle.”