https://propstoreauction.com/lot-details/index/catalog/399/lot/145749
Thursday, October 17, 2024
only a couple days after the California governor passed a law putting oversight on California oil refinery operations, Phillips 66 says it will shut down Los Angeles-area refinery
The refinery accounts for about 8% of California’s refining capacity, according to the state’s Energy Commission.
The refinery consists of two facilities that were built more than a century ago.
https://apnews.com/article/california-refinery-oil-phillips-66-shut-down-bbea1826c0d5d472273f97ad86b870f8
Maverik service station, a gas purveyor near Utah’s Salt Lake City International Airport, was voted “America’s Best Restroom” of 2024.
Cintas, a corporate uniform and products company, has hosted the online contest for 23 years to highlight some of America’s favorite bathrooms, with the public voting on cleanliness, visual appeal, innovation, functionality and unique design elements.
Maverick was previously recognized by USA Today as the place with the cleanest gas station restrooms in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada and Utah.
last year’s winner, Baltimore/Washington International (BWI) Thurgood Marshall Airport.
The top 10 finalists for 2024 also included:
Hop Shops (Florence, Kentucky)
Indiana Caverns (Corydon, Indiana)
Kansas City Zoo & Aquarium (Kansas City, Missouri)
Lambeau Field (Green Bay, Wisconsin)
MAD (Houston, Texas)
Maximilian Motorsports (Chehalis, Washington)
Morning Glory (San Diego, California)
Natchez Trace State Park Visitor Center (Wildersville, Tennessee)
Throne Restrooms (Brentwood, Maryland)
Maverick was previously recognized by USA Today as the place with the cleanest gas station restrooms in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada and Utah.
last year’s winner, Baltimore/Washington International (BWI) Thurgood Marshall Airport.
The top 10 finalists for 2024 also included:
Hop Shops (Florence, Kentucky)
Indiana Caverns (Corydon, Indiana)
Kansas City Zoo & Aquarium (Kansas City, Missouri)
Lambeau Field (Green Bay, Wisconsin)
MAD (Houston, Texas)
Maximilian Motorsports (Chehalis, Washington)
Morning Glory (San Diego, California)
Natchez Trace State Park Visitor Center (Wildersville, Tennessee)
Throne Restrooms (Brentwood, Maryland)
The Supreme Court on Tuesday tossed out a lower court decision that shielded from liability Texas law enforcement off
In its brief order, the Supreme Court wiped away the lower court decision that protected the police officers involved in her arrest and ordered additional proceedings.
Villarreal has been described as the "most influential journalist" in Laredo, and publishes information about local crime, traffic and other news to her Facebook page, "Lagordiloca News." Her reporting sometimes rankles local government officials, including the Laredo Police Department.
In 2017, their frustrations boiled over. Villarreal had published two news reports based on tips from local citizens, one that named a U.S. Border Patrol agent who died by suicide and a second relaying information about a fatal traffic crash and Houston family that was hurt in the accident. For both, she reached out to a Laredo police officer who confirmed the information before the stories were published to her Facebook page.
Months later, Villarreal was arrested for allegedly violating a state law that makes it a felony for a person to solicit or receive information from a government official that has not yet been made public if it's with the intent to obtain a benefit.
In the 23 years that it's been on the books, the statute has never been enforced, according to her lawyers.
Villarreal turned herself in, and the criminal charges were dismissed after a local judge ruled the law was unconstitutionally vague. She then sued the police and prosecutors behind her arrest, arguing her First, Fourth and 14th Amendment rights were violated.
The officials sought to toss out the case, claiming they had qualified immunity.
Villarreal's lawyers wrote in a filing to the Supreme Court, that this "leaves no doubt that arresting Villarreal for asking the government for information and publishing the response violated the First Amendment — and every reasonable official would have known that."
A collection of memorabilia from the first person to drive across the country has been given to the National Packard Museum.
Today's big news is that Ferrari has finally unveiled their newest, coolest, most incredible car yet, the F80... it had to be, just to eclipse the LaFerrari
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
The Band's Jim Weider bagged his career-defining '52 Telecaster, when he was broke and working in a car wash
“I went across the country to do my California road trip in my Volkswagen, and along the way, I was looking for a Tele,” he recalls in the latest edition of Guitarist. “I found one from the late-’50s in Oklahoma, but it wasn’t quite right, so I sold it to Jim Messina [of Buffalo Springfield]. I think I paid $100 or $150.”
Fast forward a few years, and Weider was out of cash and paying the bills “I was broke and working in a car wash in Santa Barbara and saw an ad in the paper for a ’52 Telecaster,” remembers Weider.
Yes, I read about car stuff everywhere
great article about a Ferrari repair shop, that's been in business since 1961... that's when most of the cars it's fixing - were new! Dominick’s garage in White Plains NY (a bit north of the Bronx)
Unlike Frank who was working here when he was eight, Santo wasn’t always in the family business. He worked a corporate job in advertising in nearby Stamford until his father had a stroke in ‘96. Through the early ‘90s, he had been easing in more hours at the shop, but he went from half-time to full-time “because all hell was breaking loose.”
His sister Vera has a similar story. Already retired from Wall Street, one day “someone called me that you’ll have to open the shop in the morning,” Vera says from her desk in the office. Santo was across the country on a vintage rally and Frank had a health scare. That was 2007. “I’ve stayed ever since.”
Vera admits that she “doesn’t know a thing about cars,” but keeps the shop organized with her finance background. She was an Associate Director in the Investment Banking division of Bear Stearns. For her, “It’s not about the cars. It’s the people.”
it turns out there is a LOT of money for the govt in forcing people to pay to register their cars. But there is a side effect when the govt suddenly digs for more money from it's people.
According to the president of the Tijuana’s chamber of commerce, who said there are currently 115 used car lots in Tijuana when there were more than 1,000 just a few years ago.
And, he says, it’s the result of the state of Baja California’s policy on so-called “chocolate cars,” or unregulated vehicles imported from the United States.
The term “chocolate cars” is a play on words from the word “chueco,” which means crooked in Spanish.
For years, many residents in Tijuana purchased vehicles north of the border and used them in Mexico without registering them or paying for Mexican license plates.
Seeing the revenue-generating potential, the Mexican government has extended the deadline several times allowing for more cars to get registered.
According to the Mexican government, through the end of September, 2.6 million of these cars had been registered in 14 different states, earning $346 million for road-infrastructure projects throughout the country.
In Baja California alone, 400,000 chocolate cars have been registered.
the lost and found of Norfolk International Airport is now being auctioned online
Five vehicles are also available, four that were abandoned at the airport and one former airport police SUV.
in 2026, Toyota is planning to revive the MR2
2liter, twin turbo, 600 hp, rear engine, all wheel drive, not electric or hybrid.
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
David McGraw, from the McGraw-Hill publishing company founding family, built a house in Osterville on Cape Cod to store his collection of 68 motorcycles.
McGraw Hill, one of the country’s biggest textbook and education publishers, was founded by David’s great-grandfather, James H. McGraw. David’s father and grandfather worked for the company, but David chose a different path. The New Jersey native moved to Cape Cod in 1980 and opened a business restoring antique cars, Classic Coachworks
A lot of his motorcycles were on exhibit in 2019, Art On Two Wheels, on Long Island, including a
1915 K Board Tracker,
1927 Pea Shooter,
1927 Hill Climber,
1928 JDH,
1936 EL Knucklehead,
1949 Flat Track,
1950 Panhead,
1966 CRS Scrambler,
1967 XLRT Lance Weil,
1968 Drag Bike,
1970 XRTT 750 Daytona Roadracer,
1970 XLCH Land Speed Streamliner,
and a 2005 Destroyer Drag Bike
Buddy "L" Bus circa 1925, the wheels can be steered by rotating the spare wheel
https://www.tpt.org/antiques-roadshow/video/appraisal-buddy-l-toy-bus-ca-1930-296zth/ for the video of this getting appraised on Antiques Roadshow
the uncle of a San Jose realtor knew of a woman selling her 1932 Packard nearby, so he called, got invited over, and when she rolled up her garage door, it was the Packard from the 1991 first Addams Family movie
https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/classic-cars/he-just-wanted-a-classic-packard-he-ended-up-with-the-addams-family-s-ride/ar-AA1no6eV?ocid=st#fullscreen
Anthony Hopkins is attached to star in “Maserati: The Brothers,” to play an Italian financier who bankrolls the Maserati brothers.
Maserati was founded in 1914 in a garage in the central Italian city of Bologna by three brothers: Alfieri, Ettore and Ernesto.
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new movie on streaming, and it was ok, but, the ghost claimed to have been run over by a Duesenberg, but the scene that showed it, had this Buick instead
I've never seen an excavator that's been sitting around unused so long it gets graffitied
and why the hell is balloon font so damn hard to read? I can't make out a single letter
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2025 Retromobile is going to shine a spotlight on Adolphe Kégresse, and showcase his invention, the half-track. This innovative solution provided vehicles with the opportunity to move around in extreme environments, and aided in creating exciting automobile expeditions.
If you're not familiar with those expeditions, there was one across Africa, and one across Canada (I'm sure there must have been more I haven't heard of though)
After the cruise through Africa in 1926,
(which was a better post than this one) and before the cross Canada expedition http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/12/failed-1934-expedition-acorss-canada-in.html
there was the cruise across China
Monday, October 14, 2024
American Airlines is battling it out in court this week against Skiplagged, over fliers using the controversial travel hack to save money.
skiplagging, which involves passengers booking flights that have a layover in their desired destination and simply ditching the trip's second leg.
https://www.chron.com/culture/article/american-airlines-skiplagging-lawsuit-19826291.php
https://www.chron.com/culture/article/american-airlines-skiplagging-lawsuit-19826291.php
Christie’s will offer Ed Ruscha’s 1964 painting ‘Standard Station, Ten-Cent Western Being Torn in Half’ in the sale in New York, it's estimated to be worth 50 million dollars. That's nuts, but if someone figures that it will be worth more someday, they'll pay that much to invest in that hope
it's 10 feet wider, and was featured in the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2023-24.
Ruscha, who was born in Oklahoma, first saw Standard Oil gas stations during a 1962 road trip to Los Angeles along Route 66, according to Christie’s.
He was enthralled by the contrast of the bold design set against the vast landscape of the Western United States, and his six gas station paintings have become some of his best known.
The gasoline station is Ruscha's most iconic image. He began experimenting with the subject in his first artist's book, Twentysix Gasoline Stations (1963), which reproduces a series of banal photographs the artist took while driving on Route 66 between Los Angeles and his hometown of Oklahoma City.
That year, converting an otherwise ordinary locale into a dramatic, even mysterious symbol of the American vernacular landscape, Ruscha created a monumental painting titled Standard Station, Amarillo, Texas, based on one of the photographs but with a radically foreshortened composition.
A few years later he made this print, further exploring the nuances of his emblematic image. Using the medium of screenprint, Ruscha was able to achieve areas of solid, flat color, as well as sinuously blended colors made with the "split fountain" technique, one of the first fine-art applications of this commercial process that combines differently colored inks. Reusing the screens from the print, Ruscha continued to experiment with Standard Station, and eventually varied colors and compositions to create three additional printed versions.
Several have come to market in the past few years, including Burning Standard (1968), which sold for $22.2m with fees at Christie’s New York in 2023.
one of only two online images I've ever seen with the temporary license plate number on a car
I found a Road Runner in the San Marino Classic car show of 2017, and learned that these were dealership temporary paper license plates.
Did you hear the one about the Sheriff that was so outraged about Burger King getting his order wrong, he called 3 patrol cars from across town, in code 3 / lights and sirens, to get the uniformed deputies to get the manager. Yes, this is a small town in Georgia
"I'm shocked the sheriff feels so flippant about this issue that he would have deputies run lights and sirens, placing citizens at risk and his deputies at risk, just so he could get information from a business owner that clearly could have been followed up on another day," Dondelinger said.
Owens is up for re-election this year, and his challenger, David Cavender, posted the video to Facebook on Friday
I really get upset that corrupt, power mad, unprofessional Grade A assholes disrespect the uniform like this
August Pabst Jr., brewing legends' descendant and racing icon, dies at 90 years old
In 1956, after founding Pabst Motors, an imported car dealership in Milwaukee, Augie began his racing career in the SCCA, which quickly led to opportunities driving for some of the greatest teams of his time, including Meister Brauser, Shelby American, John Wyer, Briggs Cunningham, NART-Ferrari, and John Mecom.
He won two National Championships during his storied career. He competed in Europe in the 24hrs of Le Mans twice, and Brands Hatch in the UK. He even managed to throw in a handful of stock car races including the 1963 Riverside NASCAR event, in a Ford Galaxy.
During his career, Pabst also raced in the Road America 500. He secured victories in 1962 and 1963, among many other achievements.
During his career, Pabst also raced in the Road America 500. He secured victories in 1962 and 1963, among many other achievements.
An avid outdoorsman, Augie enjoyed hunting ducks on Lake Winnebago, fly fishing the Deschutes River, hunting upland game and cruising Oconomowoc Lake on his pontoon boat. He became passionate about snowmobiling after his dear late friends Richard Bickler and John Fitch introduced him the more modern snowmobiles in 1984.
