Thursday, October 15, 2026
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
St. Thomas Dragway on July 1st, 1963, of Jack "Skinny" Fuche in the 427 powered B/FX Ford F-100XL,
The truck was the brainchild of a couple of Ford Truck Division executives and Fuche along with Dearborn Steel Tube owner Andy Hotton.
St. Thomas was one of the ten drag strips the truck made an appearance at prior to the NHRA Nationals at Indy.
After the 1963 Nationals, the truck was sold to Jack Whitby, owner of Friendly Ford in Wilmington Delaware.
the below 427 F-100 was the one originally built by Bob Ford for a customer of theirs. Dave Lyall campaigned that truck briefly in 1964 in B/FX.
A hospital has taken delivery of a state-of-the-art surgical robot, the da Vinci Five robot, thanks to a donation from Gordon Murray, who created the McLaren F1 supercar in 1992
"This machinery fascinated the engineer in me," he said. "It's not anywhere near as intrusive as the operation used to be, and the recovery times are much quicker."
Having been operated on by the da Vinci Xi, he said the five model he was donating had "150 improvements".
"There's no better way of saying thank you to the team than donating one of these," he added.
"Initially I thought I'd leave a donation in my will and then I thought 'it can start saving people now'."
Tuesday, October 13, 2026
As cities push back against Flock's license plate readers, the $8.4 billion surveillance company is betting big on police drones, raising fresh questions about privacy and oversight.
The company’s line of drones has become a key part of its current revenue and sales pitch. Flock founder and CEO Garrett Langley told the All-In Podcast in September that drone tech is the company’s “fastest-growing business unit right now.”
Founded in 2017, Flock is valued at $8.4 billion. Langley said drone tech is set to account for nearly half of its future revenue.
the Small Business Administration's rejected BMW of Springfield’s application for loan forgiveness (a New Jersey dealership) for part of a $2 million Paycheck Protection Program loan
nearly all the $800 billion in Paycheck Protection Program loans issued by the federal government have been forgiven.
Now, some borrowers whose requests for forgiveness were denied are taking their cases to court.
A New Jersey dealership can’t compel the Small Business Administration to forgive part of a $2 million Paycheck Protection Program loan, a federal appeals court has ruled.
The SBA justifiably rejected BMW of Springfield’s application for loan forgiveness, saying BMW of Springfield was ineligible for the money in the first place, the 3rd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held.
The dispute arose from a federal low-interest loan program enacted in 2020’s Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security, or CARES Act, to help small businesses meet their payroll and survive during the pandemic era.
In implementing the Paycheck Protection Program, the SBA capped the collective amount that entities with shared majority ownership could borrow at $20 million for first-draw, or first-round, loans and $4 million for second-draw loans.
The SBA justifiably rejected BMW of Springfield’s application for loan forgiveness, saying BMW of Springfield was ineligible for the money in the first place, the 3rd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held.
The dispute arose from a federal low-interest loan program enacted in 2020’s Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security, or CARES Act, to help small businesses meet their payroll and survive during the pandemic era.
In implementing the Paycheck Protection Program, the SBA capped the collective amount that entities with shared majority ownership could borrow at $20 million for first-draw, or first-round, loans and $4 million for second-draw loans.
In the New Jersey case, the operator of a BMW dealer in Springfield sued the SBA Tuesday seeking forgiveness of $936,963. The SBA said the company, known as Celebrity of Springfield, is part of a larger corporate group that received a loan of $5.06 million, which is far more than the $4 million corporate maximum. Therefore, Celebrity’s $2 million loan is ineligible for forgiveness, the SBA said in its final loan review decision.
The 2 CV Fourgonnette is Citroen's attempt at reviving the panel van from the 1950s.
Citroen kept the 2CV Fourgonette production going for 26 years, from 1951 to 1977, with some final units rolling off the assembly line in 1979, before the Acadiane small commercial panel van completely took over. The company manufactured 1,246,355 units of the classic van over its lifespan.
The French automaker brought the 2 CV concept car to Paris and, with it, the 2 CV Fourgonnette, a revival of the historic 1951 legendary van. However, the concept van going into production is very unlikely. The world doesn’t need a miniature van that doesn’t have the space or the practicality of a pickup truck.
The Citroën 2CV is back as a low-priced, electric hatchback.
Much like Volkswagen's Beetle in Germany and Fiat's 500 in Italy, the model scored points for affordability. This is exactly what Citroen is counting on right now. The concept car previews a future production model which is expected to hit the market sometime in 20028, with a starting price of 15,000 euros, to prove that electric mobility can be accessible.
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/stellantis-bets-small-affordable-evs-european-comeback-2026-10-11
oddly enough, this John Deere garden tractor belongs to the guitarist from Cheap Trick, Rick Nielson... and it's going to auction. So is his 55 T Bird and 58 Ranchero
The drivetrain of this tractor has been modified to achieve a higher top speed, believed to be over ten miles per hour.
This tractor was previously on exhibition in Rockford, Illinois during “Rick's Picks: A Lifelong Affair With Guitars & Music” at the Burpee Museum of Natural History in 2012 - 2013.
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