Thursday, April 02, 2026
the bridge that inspired a very slow, but famous, race. The Posingford Bridge built in1907 was where the Poohsticks game was invented in 1928.
found in Schott's Miscellany, interesting stuff fills these books I first discovered about 20 years ago, and only a week ago found that that after the success of the original, 3 or 4 more on different topics were made
I was in a very rich neighborhood with very large 3 and 4 car garages... and no one left anything interesting out where it could be seen, except this young guy's (I met his mom) track Miata with Montana loophole plates
The No. 46 Ford Trophy Truck was disqualified from the 2026 San Felipe 250 following a cheating scandal, due to video evidence that Toby Price and Brent Bauman stacked rocks on a portion of the San Felipe course during the pair's pre-run
Video evidence was submitted to SCORE officials, and, ultimately, they decided that the team should be disqualified.
Wednesday, April 01, 2026
seen on today's walk...
This makes the 2nd 914 I've found in this neighborhood... but that's a flat front tire on the passenger side front.
what the hell is the deal with this license plate? Yellow on black would be right for this era, but this sequence isn't the 3 letters followed by 3 numbers that would be proper for this year. Must be one of the new re-issued plates, which are fine for new cars, but, it's all wrong for the cars in the 60s to have the right color plates, without the right alphanumeric sequence
this car has been parked so long, the tire dry rotted and went flat, on BOTH SIDES on the back. I think it's a beemer
a court has concluded the 15-year legal battle over a Caltrans project that aims to modify a stretch of Highway 101 through Richardson Grove State Park.
a three-judge panel in California’s First District Court of Appeal affirmed a lower court’s decision to reject the latest lawsuit from conservation groups that challenged the project’s compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).
The Richardson Grove Improvement Project, as Caltrans has dubbed it, will modify an approximately one-mile stretch of Highway 101 as it wends through the state park’s massive coast redwoods, some of which are more than 300 feet tall and thousands of years old.
Caltrans describes the work as “minor adjustments” that are necessary to improve traffic safety and accommodate industry-standard-sized semi trucks that are currently prohibited from passing through this narrow stretch of 101.
Project opponents, on the other hand, argued that both the construction activity and the resulting road realignment could harm the ancient trees — not by removing any of them down but by cutting into their root systems.
Skip the first 40 seconds and it's over at 3:10. The rest of the video is open highway like any other, no cool redwood trunks inches away from the road
Tuesday, March 31, 2026
the Wrigley family (Wrigley Field in Chicago named for them) bought a Douglas C-47 Skytrain, converted it to a DC-3 in 1947 and used it to fly from Chicago to Catalina Island
The Wrigley family eventually sold the plane and only recently was the family able to track it down and repurchase it. Alison said last week the family was fortunate to have been able to re-locate the DC-3 and said it is undergoing a complete restoration.
With only 3,434 hours in its logbook, this apparently is the lowest-time DC–3 in the world.
Charlie Chaplin’s half-brother Syd was the first to offer air service to Catalina in 1919, operating a small seaplane service that lasted two years.
I've covered the Wrigley ownership in https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2016/01/private-island-owners-used-to-be-quite.html
environmental and Indigenous groups filed a lawsuit in Las Vegas federal court, arguing that the Rhyolite Ridge Lithium-Boron Project in Nevada, one of North America’s largest sources of lithium, poses a major threat to the endangered Tiehm’s Buckwheat, a desert flower endemic to the area, which could even cause it to go extinct.
Of course, it's in the middle of nowhere between Vegas and Reno, and no one outside of the people in the lawsuit have ever heard of, or think that one flower in the middle of nowhere that no one will ever visit the area to see
In fact, other than this news about the lawsuit, no one will ever hear of the flower.
the Santa Rosa parents of a 16-year-old just discovered the cost of getting their i8 BMW out of impound, and bail for their kid, as that dumbass was arrested for reckless driving, at 130 mph on the 101
This is NOT that actual car, it's the i8 I found last week parked in Mira Mesa.
dropping a new Vette.... really? How after all these decades of using lifts, has the process not become fool proof? How after a decade of internet ridicule, hasn't every shop and garage, gotten the message "there will be international online shame and notoriety if you drop a car on a lift"?
it’s not the first time a C8 Corvette has fallen off a lift. This marks at least the third documented case since the model’s introduction, with earlier incidents in 2020 and 2021 pointing to similar mistakes.
While these cases are rare relative to total production numbers, they reveal a pattern that shouldn’t exist at this stage. By now, lifting procedures for the C8 platform are well-established. These aren’t experimental vehicles anymore—they’re widely sold performance cars with known service requirements.
Yet the same type of error keeps happening.
While these cases are rare relative to total production numbers, they reveal a pattern that shouldn’t exist at this stage. By now, lifting procedures for the C8 platform are well-established. These aren’t experimental vehicles anymore—they’re widely sold performance cars with known service requirements.
Yet the same type of error keeps happening.
https://www.yahoo.com/autos/ownership/articles/dealer-drops-corvette-z06-during-133000493.html
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10163792604429373&set=pcb.1592745625111871
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