Friday, May 22, 2026
I just learned of a quarterly magazine that looks to be FUL of the stuff I like to read through, thank you Larry W !!
Charlie Yapp wrote a pair of articles in 1990 touching on the speedster segment of the hobby for Restorer, the Model A Ford Club of America’s magazine, and brought back a flood of memories for those racers and sparked a barrage of responses.
“The Model A Ford Club of America and the Model A Restorers Club, they’re purists, they do not like hot rodders,” Charlie said. “But they had already seen the speed stuff creeping into their world, so they wanted me to take charge of this.”
Charlie wrote to about 32 of those responders with a homemade newsletter, and a month later, 200 fellas wanted to receive the newsletter, 400 the following month, and 800 by the end of the first year.
“The Model A Ford Club of America and the Model A Restorers Club, they’re purists, they do not like hot rodders,” Charlie said. “But they had already seen the speed stuff creeping into their world, so they wanted me to take charge of this.”
Charlie wrote to about 32 of those responders with a homemade newsletter, and a month later, 200 fellas wanted to receive the newsletter, 400 the following month, and 800 by the end of the first year.
Charlie, who ran a photography studio at the time, saw something going and founded the Secrets of Speed Society to publish what became Secrets Magazine, which has continued on since 1991.
After learning about this, I looked on Ebay, and found a collection for sale for about 180, 1999-2018 editions. I snapped it up, and will be letting you all know about the wonderful stuff I find in them
The Secrets Of Speed Society's (S.O.S.S.) goal is to save the history of "Ford Speed and Sport" as it was in the old days and today.
Primarily Ford Model "A", "B" & "T" (1909 through 1934) based driving, cross country touring, hill climbs and racing of all types.
With research articles, stories of our membership, past advertising, new products and events about Speedsters, hill climbs, open wheeled racers, cross country touring and performance for Model T and A and B Fords.
now that I've seen the preview for Schmigadoon, I'll have to see the series... I want to know what the hell they are driving (streaming on Apple)
the cast is super talented
Keegan Key, Kristin Chenowith, Alan Cumming, Martin Short, and Jane, above along with a lot of actors I don't know about
Sony announced today that it has picked up the hand-painted animated feature Iron Boy
Iron Boy follows 11-year-old Christophe, in rural France, as he tries to live up to his rigid and distant father on the family farm.
Thursday, May 21, 2026
superb 66 Chev truck I saw when getting a double double for lunch yesterday... when I left there was as young woman leaving the parking lot with it... I seriously should have asked for an interview, to learn what her connection is to it, as it's rare as unicorn horns for young women to buy old trucks
A Corvair engine used for a small airplane, cost some lucky owner only $1522 for a rebuild
disassembled the engine, inspected it, replaced the cam, with the gear and lifters, both the main and rod bearing sets, and all the gaskets, honed the cylinders on GP, assembled it, put it on the test stand and did a break in run.
I put it back in its crate and took it to the shipping point. Total Bill: $1,522.
a Pennsylvania Republican and an Illinois progressive plan to introduce an amendment in today's House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee markup hearing to prohibit federal highway funding for states using automated license plate readers for any purpose other than tolling
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee will mark up the underlying bill—a $580 billion, five-year reauthorization of federal surface transportation programs—at 10 am ET on Thursday.
The amendment runs a single sentence: “A recipient of assistance under Title 23, United States Code, may not use automated license plate readers for any purpose other than tolling.”
The amendment is brief, but its reach would be vast. Title 23 funds roughly a quarter of all public road mileage in the US, including most state and county arteries and many city streets where ALPR cameras are becoming ubiquitous. Conditioning that funding on a ban of the technology would, in practical effect, force any state, county, or municipality that takes federal highway money (essentially all of them) to either remove the cameras or restructure their use around tolling alone.
Wednesday, May 20, 2026
some scrap metal art!
Not the first time I've posted a big damn centipede... https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2025/08/what-type-of-giant-creepy-crawly-would.html
a Ford dealership in Kansas has a bird problem...
a robin built a nest directly on the top of an F250 tire on the dealer's lot.
Since then, a group of baby robins have hatched, immediately turning the truck into a federally protected no-touch zone - which means that nobody can move the Super Duty, nor can they disturb the nest.
It's a free publicity scenario, set up a web cam, make a facebook page, and milk the publicity!
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