Thursday, December 04, 2025

1968, Gene Akers National Air Races F4U-4 Corsair "Lancer Two", cool paint scheme

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https://tailhooktopics.blogspot.com/2017/09/f4u-4-lancer-ii-reno-air-races.html https://www.hyperscale.com/2009/features/f4u448rw_1_1_1.htm

what is in this photo is not obvious right away, but it's got a great story from Jackson county Georgia

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Zach bought a mobile home park that had 4 big piles of dirt spaced around the property. The previous owner had intended on using them to fil...

The German magazine 'Autobild' drives various cars for 100,000 kilometers and then disassembles them down to the last screw to find signs of wear and weak points. This is brilliant. Why don't Ford, GM, Dodge, Toyota, BMW, Nissan, etc etc do this?

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https://x.com/engineers_feed/status/1995540410706657506

it's a MIni, built by BMW, to look like a Porsche, so they call it a "Mini Ferrari" concept. What were they drinking?

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  The MINI Superleggera — or, “Minarri” as it’s sometimes called, was originally scheduled as an “i4,” to slot below the i8. The car was unv...

This doesn't sound like a cool Ukrainian hacker, nope, not one bit... satellites disabled the Porsches... in Russia. My compliments to whoever pulled this off!

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Hundreds of Porsches across Russia have been rendered undriveable after a failure in their factory-installed satellite security system Drive...

don't you just hate it when... the number is too damn long?

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82000 tires, Mulistrada’s Achilles ATR Sport 2, are being pulled because the Tire Identification Number is too long No word on any problem w...

Two snowplow trucks were stolen from a Troy Michigan shopping plaza just hours before crews were scheduled to clear snow from the 25-acre parking lot... well, they left the keys IN THE TRUCKS so thieves could help themselves. Ain't gonna be an insurance claim.

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the theft occurred around 9:30 p.m. when someone helped themselves to both vehicles, which had keys left inside so crews could quickly star...

Pan Am had a great marketing dept in the 50s... everything was cool, but this? Wow.

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http://www.everythingpanam.com/Children_s_Items.html
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these guys have way too much crazy going on.... thank you Gary!

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Sterling Cooper, Inc on their website, state that they concentrate on activities with an old business idea founded by the Dutch East India c...

great shot, sitting at the end of a blade really draws out the distance!

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https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/
Wednesday, December 03, 2025

the 1951 Crosley (a budget roadster from Cincinnati) Le Mans Special, body by Pop Dreyer, was on Bring a Trailer in 2020, at 53k thank you Billy O!

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a Stan Mott drawing (  https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search?q=Stan+Mott+ ) an article appeared in Road and Track in 1958  Schrafft went ...

the studio behind Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir, announced a new animated feature and animated series: Carmen, inspired by race car driver Carmen Jorda

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She was introduced to motorsport at a young age with cart racing, then raced in  GP3, Indy Lights and the Le Mans Series. It was recently an...

‘Lupin the IIIrd The Movie – The Immortal Bloodline’ comes to theaters in January - English subtitles

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Lupin the IIIRD: The Movie – The Immortal Bloodline, the anime icon’s first full feature-length, 2D-animated cinema outing in almost 30 year...

The Department of Veterans Affairs recently announced it has terminated a Biden-Administration mandate to spend $77 million on electric vehicle charging stations at VA facilities. The money will instead be redirected to critical health care construction projects.

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No charging stations were built, the money wasn't spent.  I don't know who the hell has an electric car at the VA anyway, if you mak...

A "brougham" is primarily a historical horse-drawn carriage and, later, an automobile body style with the driver exposed to the elements, and the passengers in an enclosed compartment, named after Scottish politician and lawyer Henry Brougham. So, why did Ryan aircraft name a plane, the Ryan Brougham?

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Unlike a coach, the carriage had a glazed front window, so that the occupants could see forward. In the automotive world, the term was adopt...

awesome is paying $100 for a machine you want...

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and getting 137 dollars in change out of it https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=122245735166088050&set=pcb.122245735772088050 Reminds me...

Interesting crank someone found... a custom job, and the company that made it, etched their logo on it

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https://www.facebook.com/groups/996045710517424/permalink/24936454609383199/

plow driver Alaina Denton is one of twelve plow drivers who work for the NYSDOT between Ray Brook and Keene. She is the only female driver in the crew, a fact that Denton takes pride in.

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Denton discovered her passion for big machinery while studying at CV-TEC, a trade school in Plattsburgh, where she made the National Technic...

Standing ovation for San Diego UPS driver Derrick West for doing some hero work!

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He is the UPS driver whose quick actions likely saved the life of a man critically injured in a crash last week on San Vicente Road  75-year...

congrats to former C-130 crew chief Hadi Kamara, who is now a senior at Princeton University, and is one of 36 to receive the Rhodes Scholarship due to his military work

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An Air Force veteran whose interest in international affairs was kindled by supporting the urgent U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 i...

Gary came across a very cool website... open jobs at car museums - The Jobs Boards of the National Association of Automobile Museums - but they are only hiring exec directors, managers, CEO, president.

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  https://naammuseums.org/jobs-board/ The Petersen is focused on donors and sales .  https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/search/?currentJobId=4273...
Tuesday, December 02, 2025

the coolest garage you'll see this month, the Egyptian, originally built as a street car electrical substation, it was remodeled into the Egyptian Garage in 1925

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notice the upper windows are still cool along the East side Of course, it's a liquor store now https://www.johnfry.com/pages/PhotoSanDie...
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