Friday, April 11, 2025
one of the WW2 Merci train cars is at Camp Perry, a National Guard training facility in the middle of a display of tanks and helicopters, a Huey and a Cobra (thank you Marc! )
from what I can tell, there is a Cobra, a Huey, a Sherman, an armored personnel carrier, and a Nike missile. The other tanks are an Abrams, and a Sheridan, I think
Camp Perry is home to the Civilian Marksmanship Program headquarters and hosts the annual National Rifle & Pistol Matches.
The lack of marksmanship skills during the Spanish-American War persuaded Congress to pass a Congressional Act in 1903 to give federal funding to state militias to provide marksmanship instruction camps and practice rifle ranges. In 1906 the Ohio State Legislature appropriated $25,000 to purchase over 300 acres of land for a state rifle range and camp.
By the summer of 1907 Camp Perry Training Site was home to a 200 yd., a 600 yd., and a 800 yd. rifle range.
Beginning in 1907, Camp Perry has been the host of the Civilian Marksmanship Program and the NRA-sponsored National Rifle Matches
By 1909, Camp Perry had evolved into the largest and best rifle ranges in the United States. During World War I, Camp Perry was used as a training center for officers and marksmanship instructors.
Rudimentary structures were constructed for use by competitors in the National Matches, and for transient military personnel. During World War I, Camp Perry served as a training center for Army officers and marksmanship instructors.
In the 1920s, the facility was by the Special Police School, a tactical training facility established by the National Rifle Association and the Army's National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice.
In the 1920s, the facility was by the Special Police School, a tactical training facility established by the National Rifle Association and the Army's National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice.
Hough Theatre, built in 1938, houses the National Matches awards ceremonies and once played host to legendary entertainers such as Bing Crosby and Bob Hope.
Once a small town within itself with a bowling alley and even its own airport, you may also see the remains of old, original structures while traversing the grounds. Visit the small park on base to see authentic helicopters, tanks and rockets from past wars, along with a boxcar, the Gratitude Train, gifted by France in 1949 after World War II and restored at Camp Perry in 1986.
The coming of the Second World War closed the Special Police School down, and Camp Perry served as a POW camp for German and Italian prisoners.
Set in 1972 Arizona/New Mexico, follows the first black woman in the FBI and a gutsy getaway driver for a growing crime syndicate. (new tv series on Max, with the name Duster, starring Josh Holloway and Keith David)
thank you Marc!
Leading up the cast of the series is Josh Holloway, who Abrams had in mind when co-writing the series. He stars as Jim, a getaway driver who is brought into an FBI mission. Rachel Hilson also has a lead role as Nina, a new FBI agent who enlists Jim in her effort to take down a crime boss. Keith David appears as Ezra, the crime boss whom the two pursue.
In March 2021, Josh Holloway was cast to star in the pilot, with filming beginning in October 2021 in Tucson. In February 2023, the series was officially given a series order, with Rachel Hilson announced as a co-lead. Corbin Bernsen was announced in a recurring role the following month.
Production for the full series began in April 2023 in Albuquerque, New Mexico and the surrounding areas. In May, it was suspended due to the 2023 WGA strike. Before the strike, the pilot was shot in downtown Tucson, Arizona, and parts of Pima County from September through mid-November 2021.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12160826/
https://wildcat.arizona.edu/126580/arts/why-was-hbo-maxs-duster-pilot-shot-in-tucson/
https://www.tvinsider.com/1182376/duster-max-premiere-date-cast-details/
https://wildcat.arizona.edu/126580/arts/why-was-hbo-maxs-duster-pilot-shot-in-tucson/
Thursday, April 10, 2025
Louisiana’s Gov. Landry outlined a sweeping has a plan aimed at tackling sky-high auto insurance rates. He even admits that all previous work to do so, was wasted.
If the plan comes to fruition in the upcoming regular legislative session, Landry said it will hold both trial lawyers and insurance companies accountable, target frivolous claims and bring greater transparency to the state’s insurance market.
“One of the most pressing issues affecting the budgets of Louisiana families is the cost of insurance. … We passed dozens of bills last year that we were told were going to lead to lower rates, and yet we stand here today seeing very little improvement,” Landry said
Landry contended that both aggressive trial lawyers and profit-hungry insurance companies are to blame for Louisiana’s auto insurance crisis.
Landry pledged to support legislation that restricts attorney advertising, which he said fuels a culture of frivolous injury claims.
Landry wants to reverse a court-imposed law mandating that injuries claimed after an accident are presumed to be caused by that accident. His proposal would require plaintiffs to prove their injuries resulted directly from their accidents, thereby making it more difficult to file frivolous claims.
Currently, Louisiana’s “No Pay, No Play” law prohibits uninsured drivers from claiming damages for the first $15,000 in personal injuries after an accident. Landry wants to raise that figure to $100,000 to further discourage driving without insurance.
Landry wants to restrict insurance companies from labeling financial data as “confidential and proprietary,” thereby making it more difficult for them to hide key information from consumers and regulators.
Landry also wants to ban texting and social media use while driving; limit the ability of undocumented immigrants to benefit from Louisiana’s insurance system; give commercial trucks with dashboard cameras a 5% premium discount; prohibit using credit scores to set rates; and prevent insurance companies from punishing drivers who had a lapse in coverage but weren’t actually driving during that lapse.
“One of the most pressing issues affecting the budgets of Louisiana families is the cost of insurance. … We passed dozens of bills last year that we were told were going to lead to lower rates, and yet we stand here today seeing very little improvement,” Landry said
Landry contended that both aggressive trial lawyers and profit-hungry insurance companies are to blame for Louisiana’s auto insurance crisis.
Landry wants to reverse a court-imposed law mandating that injuries claimed after an accident are presumed to be caused by that accident. His proposal would require plaintiffs to prove their injuries resulted directly from their accidents, thereby making it more difficult to file frivolous claims.
Currently, Louisiana’s “No Pay, No Play” law prohibits uninsured drivers from claiming damages for the first $15,000 in personal injuries after an accident. Landry wants to raise that figure to $100,000 to further discourage driving without insurance.
Landry wants to restrict insurance companies from labeling financial data as “confidential and proprietary,” thereby making it more difficult for them to hide key information from consumers and regulators.
Landry also wants to ban texting and social media use while driving; limit the ability of undocumented immigrants to benefit from Louisiana’s insurance system; give commercial trucks with dashboard cameras a 5% premium discount; prohibit using credit scores to set rates; and prevent insurance companies from punishing drivers who had a lapse in coverage but weren’t actually driving during that lapse.
understated, yet thoroughly decorated with Batman logos (even the steering wheel cover)
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Compliment of the day!
Jesse, you're AWESOME! My husband LOVES your blog. His longtime car guy friend and coworker has read it for years and is always sharing stuff with my man, some of which he forwards to me, because I dig the car stuff too.
Katherine C
how about a hubless tractor tire that has a seat inside, pushed by a BMW engine driving a Humvee rear axle... basically a motor monster trike
https://newatlas.com/automotive/grind-hard-plumbing-co-monster-trike-ride-in-tractor-wheel/
https://www.instagram.com/grindhardplumbingco/
this is being built by the same people that made the Monster Chopper and 2nd life Barbie Mustang
https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2018/05/there-is-2nd-life-in-that-barbie-mustang.html
While working on my family tree (still) I'm looking to see if the famous last names in my ancestors, are also, ancestors of the famous people we are familiar with. Todays cool connections? Henry Fonda, and Alfred Hitchcock
Fonda's patriline originates with an ancestor from Genoa, Italy, who migrated to the Netherlands in the 15th century.
In 1642, a branch of the Fonda family immigrated to the Dutch colony of New Netherland on the East Coast of North America.
They were among the first Dutch population to settle in what is now upstate New York, establishing the town of Fonda, New York.
Henry Fonda was friends and roommates with Jimmy Stewart (yup, I'm pretty sure I'm related to him too, via the Scottish Stewarts, as I recently found that the Mary Queen of Scots family of Stewarts are in my family tree)
He was later commissioned as a lieutenant junior grade in Air Combat Intelligence in the Central Pacific and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal and Navy Presidential Unit Citation. He resigned as a full lieutenant
Henry Fonda and the U.S. Navy became formally assorted on 24 August 1942 when, at age 37, Fonda enlisted as a seaman recruit at Los Angeles. In due course he was sent to boot camp and quartermaster A school at San Diego. His performance was such that he was meritoriously advanced to quartermaster third class and assigned in May 1943 to the Satterlee, a Gleaves-class destroyer then nearing completion in the builder’s ways at the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation. There he and other newly assigned crewmen began the work of readying the ship for sea.
In August, 1943 “The ship received orders for Fonda’s transfer to New York, for Officer’s Training, but conveniently pigeon-holed them.” Cassell recalls that:
“Fonda liked the ship and was eager to go to sea. . . . he had taken no action to get a commission . . . [but] we persuaded him, I think, that his talents were not being fully utilized and he could serve the Navy bests as an officer.”
He tired of this mundane duty, however, so he applied for duty aboard a ship in a war zone The Navy delayed granting that request, however. After slightly more than a month in Washington, Fonda was ordered to NAS Quonset Point, Rhode Island, where he was trained as an air combat intelligence officer.
Between 4 October 1943 and 18 March 1944, he learned the basics of coding, photo interpretation, et cetera. Fonda excelled in his work, finishing in the upper quarter of his class. His wish to serve in a war zone was finally granted in the spring of 1944. After a short leave, he began the journey to the seaplane tender Curtiss, flagship of Vice Admiral Hoover, Commander Forward Area Central Pacific.
Fonda’s duties focused on air operations, specifically the interpretation and evaluation of masses of photographic and other intelligence material required to carry forward •he invasion of the Marianas and later Iwo Jima.
Cook recalls Fonda as one of the first staff officers to seek him out. In addition, he conducted detailed briefings with VPB-216 pilots and aircrews on the activities of the Japanese so that he might better grasp the materials he was reviewing.
Hard work, application to his duties, and an interest in others characterized his service. White recalls when the ship was at Saipan in December 1944. Tokyo Rose broadcast that she knew where the Curtiss was, who Admiral Hoover was, and even that the movie actor Henry Fonda was on board. Most important, she said that the Japanese Navy was going forth to sink the ship, and as White remembers it, “We believed her, and the ship got underway.”
Cook recalls Fonda as one of the first staff officers to seek him out. In addition, he conducted detailed briefings with VPB-216 pilots and aircrews on the activities of the Japanese so that he might better grasp the materials he was reviewing.
Hard work, application to his duties, and an interest in others characterized his service. White recalls when the ship was at Saipan in December 1944. Tokyo Rose broadcast that she knew where the Curtiss was, who Admiral Hoover was, and even that the movie actor Henry Fonda was on board. Most important, she said that the Japanese Navy was going forth to sink the ship, and as White remembers it, “We believed her, and the ship got underway.”
During the air attack this very nearly happened, and after the attack, Fonda—by then promoted to full lieutenant—and two sailors dove into the water around the ship to identify an aircraft shot down by the Curtiss' s gun crews. White further recalls, “We weren’t sure how he figured it out, but he told the Admiral to launch an air strike at Pagan Island, and we weren’t attacked for almost two weeks.”
Fonda recovered the dead Japanese aviator’s chart board and from it, together with other materials, Fonda concluded that an attack on Pagan was both appropriate and necessary.
The quality of Henry Fonda’s service to the Navy is captured in a citation for the Bronze Star Medal that he was awarded in August 1945: “He contributed materially to the planning and execution of air operations which effectively supported the Marianas, Western Carolines and Iwo Jima Campaigns.
Fonda recovered the dead Japanese aviator’s chart board and from it, together with other materials, Fonda concluded that an attack on Pagan was both appropriate and necessary.
The quality of Henry Fonda’s service to the Navy is captured in a citation for the Bronze Star Medal that he was awarded in August 1945: “He contributed materially to the planning and execution of air operations which effectively supported the Marianas, Western Carolines and Iwo Jima Campaigns.
Wednesday, April 09, 2025
I bet only people in El Paso in 1978 ever heard about the Oglemobile... a 72 Tbird, with a 429 that Ogle took to Cloudcroft and back on two gallons, about 200 miles.
By removing the carb, and doing some mods, he accomplished the 100 mpg with a series of hoses feeding a mixture of gas vapors and air directly into the engine.
Gas in the tank passes through a series of filters, which stretch the energy available in each gallon. The invention also stores excess vapors for later use for up to 45 days. Premium gas is needed, as its higher octane level allows for more vapors to build.https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/local/el-paso/2022/03/18/200-miles-2-gallons-gas-tom-ogle-story-trish-long/7090663001
Well, he never proved it, instead, telling the people that offered a 1000 dollars for him to prove it that it would cost him more than that to reinstall the system.
If they'd give him the money, he'd prove it worked. Nice scam huh? Just like some people who cheated in Nascar, and made the actual amount of fuel in the vehicle hidden and impossible to discover, he convinced one reporter that he'd made a 100 mpg system, then tried to hook a sucker for a 1000 bucks.
Škoda cars are known for their "Simply Clever" features, which are designed to make everyday life easier, including features like a hidden ice scraper in the fuel door, door umbrellas, and a wiper washer bottle with an integrated funnel.
I learned about the funnel and "simply clever" years ago, and posted much better about the windshield washer bottle funnel https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2020/04/i-just-learned-that-skoda-went-with.html
Tuesday, April 08, 2025
There is a vintage car museum in Kentucky that opened in 2022 that has over 250 vehicles billed as the ‘most mind-blowing private car collection in the midwest.’ It is called Collection 21.Tours are available to the public every Friday and Saturday.
They help by rehabbing older homes, and building new homes. They are able to keep it affordable by having volunteers who offer free labor, and also donations from generous people who believe in their mission.
“Honk is an incredible program that makes a real lasting impact in our community,” said Erlanger Mayor Jessica Fette. “Their commitment to providing affordable housing and helping families build stability aligns with our vision for a strong and thriving Erlanger. We’re proud to support their efforts and the positive change they bring to our city.”
The anon collector asked to remain off-camera and anonymous, content to put the focus on the significance he finds in these cars.
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