there aren't many GTOs cooler than a Royal Bobcat, it had the 400 swapped out with a 428 sourced from a Bonneville and worked over by the legendary Detroit speed shop dealership, and this one is for sale

https://silodrome.com/pontiac-gto-royal-bobcat-428/

coming home from Shrewsbury car show on Friday and a careless driver cut this Fairlane off and ran it into a telephone pole. 20 years of family fun and car shows... over.

https://www.facebook.com/steph.speight/posts/pfbid0uSy3Wrz5oejtfbDgDmWoZTYk72bALqCBeQ6pDz2hBx7Y7n6CzstBAPNdUP3jnR8wl

It can be repaired... it's certainly not totalled, but the owners might be heartbroke, and sell it instead of putting up with body shop bullshit that lasts a year for a 2 week job

Mythbusters tested a Taurus out to see what the effect of dimples would be on gas mileage... and it was about 10% fuel mpg improvement. From 26 to 29.6 mpg

Adam had so much more life/enthusiasm than Jamie. 

I think it's to be expected from someone that chooses to look like this

giving a cool old Apache the idle up a hill test

someone forgot to play it safe and not lock up their brakes while racing up Pike's.... instead, they went for a small aircraft pilot's license, solo

 

JCB has completed testing of its hydrogen-powered land speed record JCB Hydromax car ahead of its attempt to break the land speed record later this summer at Bonneville (thank you George)

The test runs took place at RAF Wittering in Cambridgeshire with Andy Green behind the wheel. The testing saw speeds increase from 177mph to 208mph

The 32-foot Hydromax car is powered by a powertrain developed in-house that combines two engines producing a combined 1,600bhp. The engines are “very similar” to those that feature in JCB’s own production-based hydrogen diggers, but have been enhanced by the need for speed.

https://eandt.theiet.org/2026/06/25/jcb-s-hydrogen-powered-vehicle-reaches-335km-h-ahead-world-speed-record-attempt

lol, Swift is still doing stupid stuff

https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/

Comic Con is coming, July 22-26, and I'll be a bit busy organizing a team for waiting in line for Hall H in the next coming weeks, and that's going to reduce my amount of blogging a bit. Not a lot, but a bit

anyone have a guess what this is?

 

genius way to make a lazy Susan food delivery system, from a tire mount machine

I have no idea what the license plate on this Lotus means... does anyone have a guess?

 

the opening scene in Goonies, had this in the background of a car chase scene

 

I was there when the family driving this arrived at the grocery store... great 68, 327, 4 barrel and 4 speed

 

seen at 6:17 am on the drive to work. I think someone's car caught on fire, and exploded. I was nowhere near to see what happened... but that smoke was HOT and went straight up to the lowest clouds, then then kept rising

 the top of that smoke, rose through the cloud cover

a split second scene in Footloose, filmed in 1984

the tractor chicken race in Footloose, I'd forgotten about this... but am rewatching the movie right now... I haven't seen it since the 80s