Saturday, October 25, 2025
oh wow, this is COOL and what great ingenious idea for a Hot Wheels display case! A tool box shaped carry case!! Thank you Larry!
just campy and 60s goofball as hell, but, Boris Karloff voiced Dr Frankenstein, designed by my favorite illustrator Jack Davis, and Frank Frazetta did the promo art! So, yeah, I'm sharing it! Bass and Rankin stop motion animation from 1967
above, Frazetta art
Above: Jack Davis art, lettering by Paul Coker, Jr. in what looks like a re-purposing, re-edit into a possible TV special version, hosted by Vincent Price.
Vincent appeared as Evil Irontail in Rankin/Bass' Here Comes Peter Cottontail (1971).
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1300712778/mad-monster-party-count-dracula-fine-art
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061931/?ref_=mv_close
It's early for Halloween... but hell, I'm less than a week out, and why hold this until then, I figure share it now, so other people can share it too if they want to. Vincent Price, Frank Frazetta, Boris Karloff,... and I bet you've never heard of it!
ASE and the U.S. Secret Service will exhibit in a co-branded booth at AAPEX 2025
The ASE is bringing a special guest organization – the U.S. Secret Service – to their exhibit at the Automotive Aftermarket Products Expo (AAPEX), November 4-6, 2025. The purpose of the exhibition is to drive awareness of the wide range of career opportunities available to auto technicians, including with the Secret Service.
bad timing with the govt refusing to pass a budget and pay it's employees...
also, I applied for that job in July, and was informed that a GS job that I was applying for was not going to happen without some specific amount of time in the next lower paygrade. Well, lemme inform you that I wasn't applying for starvation wage level GS level, and can not make ends meet on GS 4, or 5 income. Not in San Diego.
car insurance (200 a month), plus gas to commute to work (200-300), and most people have a car payment (300-400 a month) and rent or mortgage (2000 a month)
and that doesn't include cell phone monthly bill (100 a month) and food to eat (500 a month based on 16 dollars a day)
So, yeah, the ASE and the Secret Service are hoping to get young people to be car mechanics, just like the trucking industry, and every other faction of employers is hoping to get young people to accept entry level wages, and do the same work as seasoned employees with years of experience.... because they won't pay a wage equal to the amount of income it takes to live in So Cal, and I imagine it's not enough to live near Washington DC either.
67 Cyclone, winner of quite a few awards, and was featured in MCR
I don't remember ever seeing these tail lights before
"let’s mount a cannon in the trunk, fire it downward, and blast this Impala into the sky like Evel Knievel in a steel coffin" (Hal Needham invented the car flipping canon, and this was it's 1st use) A movie review of McQ, the John Wayne movie with a Trans Am in 1974 Thank you Doug!
I haven't seen that movie in decades, and didn't make the connection when I saw it what a similarity there was between McQ and Bullitt.
Mick Jagger honking the horn of a '69 Rambler American, license plate XXK 332 I think... anyway, if you know of that Rambler still on the road with that license plate.... get Mick to sign some part of that car while he's still alive. Thank you Steve!
"Country Honk " is a country version of "Honky Tonk Women" and while it was recorded first, it was released later than "Honky Tonk Women."
Did you hear about the Tesla Cemetery Challenge? Seems Tesla is having fun during the Halloween season, and driving past headstones causes the lidar/radar system to display ghosts on the dashboard display screen
the car's object detection system is misinterpreting stationary objects like tombstones, flower arrangements, or other large objects as people. The videos showing this are real, but the "ghosts" are the result of sensor glitches and algorithmic artifacts
Ai fake news footage video sent to a NBC Chicago ch 5 news station, who ran with it, and broadcast it.... without verifying that it's legit. It seems to be satire made by the racetrack's social media marketing people, who are getting big numbers on Facebook
“We later found out the power company in the area cut the lights to intimidate the track owners into paying their electric bill on time,” the reporter explained on-air, pulling info from the post’s caption that was written in broken English. “The track then gave each car in the wreck an extra $5 to go toward repair work.”
Friday, October 24, 2025
great photo of a gas station guy tanking up an Barracuda, and it's got some custom vertical black paint lines on the fenders.... thank you John!
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I am surprised to see it's on ice, with summer tires too...
Thursday, October 23, 2025
one of my favorite comic strips comes out with an annual big soft cover of the whole years worth, so fans can binge read the whole years adventures of a teen ager and his life living with parents, coping with school, and etc.. Zits. Here's a couple snips from this years book
I've been buying the annual for about 20 years now... it is released in Sept/Oct every year
I never would have guessed that Burl Ives had a clue about cars, and then today, I heard him singing about a Chevy with dual carbs Got a hotrod Chevy with a twin carburetor
"Got a hotrod Chevy with a twin carburetor"
https://genius.com/Burl-ives-call-me-mr-in-between-lyrics
do NOT listen to the song, it's annoying
"Today I learned" brought to you by Mike... did anyone of you know this about the common fuse?
from several other videos that showed up in my search on this trick... I'm not alone in learning this
The hack of Jaguar Land Rover cost the British economy an estimated $2.55 billion dollars and affected over 5,000 organizations
the hack caused a six-week shutdown
this Vette was WOT on the Big Bend Open Road Race and left lookin’ like a toasty marshmallow. (average speed of 173.004 mph over the course of 118 miles)
the BBORR runs from Fort Stockton to Sanderson on U.S. Highway 285
micro cars racing, skip the first 8:52
the camera is mostly following the white roadster, with the orange racing stripes, it's a Hitachi. There's lots of cars I don't recognize. It's not fast, just interesting
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