Saturday, June 14, 2025

in the swap meet at the LA Roadsters show today, at the Pomona Fairplex, I came across 3 full sets of Hot Rod magazine... this booth had one on hand, plus some other cool stuff!

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Might be the coolest thing I found today, Isky's autograph on Chavik's 39 Buick hot rod, next to a quartet of Stonmberg 97s

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  https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2022/09/built-not-bought-this-39-buick-was.html for a gallery on the Buick at SEMA

I don't think I've seen a Nissan President in So Cal before

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I just noticed how similar the shape of these Volvo bumper reflectors is to the semaphore turn signals shape on VWs

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I was stuck in rush hour traffic again yesterday after work, and like usual, looked around at the tires on the cars around me... this guy was in front of me.

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 That's just going to wear down a tiny bit more before blowing out and causing a big problem... but he took off in another direction tha...

The Cars guitarist, Elliott Easton, shared a Flintstones-themed version of the band’s 1979 Candy-O album, on Instagram

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https://www.instagram.com/p/CYPU5Whuyij/?hl=en   via  https://www.mensjournal.com/entertainment/cars-guitarist-elliott-easton-shares-spoof-o...

superb vise made in the 50s by the American Positive Grip Co, conforms to compound shapes

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https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKdoGNEtLa6/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

there is an annual Combine Demolition Derby in Washington state

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https://www.hagerty.com/media/great-reads/its-smashem-bashem-at-the-lind-combine-derby/

More family tree research has crazy coincidences to posts I've made about the Gen Pershing retaliation on Pancho Villa raid... AND my recent post about my relative that Schofield Barracks was named for... I present, the brief history of Wheeler Air Force base, Pearl Harbor Hawaii

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Major Wheeler had become well known for his daring reconnaissance and scouting flights in support of General Pershing's operations near ...

Eddie Murphy is back, here's his upcoming movie about the last day before retirement, on an armored truck job

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Friday, June 13, 2025

I just realized I forgot to post that the LA Roadster Show is happening today (Friday) and tomorrow (Saturday! 7am to 4 pm) at the Fairplex in Pomona

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  https://www.laroadstershow.com/

the beautiful result of making a race car from a commuter

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https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1202276301694210&set=pcb.1202279951693845
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wheelstander T bird

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  https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10232290046947041&set=pcb.2008141503053619

the Ford Turbine

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  https://www.facebook.com/groups/272291393305314/permalink/1990152801519156/

From now on, Le Mans Classic will take place every year, alternating between two complementary formats:

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Le Mans Classic Heritage: a classic event dedicated to the golden age of endurance racing, to honour history and pass on the passion. Le M...
Thursday, June 12, 2025

in New Jersey in 1901, the Detroit Photographic Special being pulled by a Delaware, Lackawanna & Western locomotive, was William Henry Jackson's traveling photographic studio-salon rail car

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  https://www.shorpy.com/node/27736?size=_original#caption WHJ completed his autobiography, "Time Exposure," in 1940, two years b...

December 1942. "Chicago, Illinois. One of the Chicago and North Western Railroad streamliner diesel electric locomotives. These trains are operated jointly with the Union Pacific Railroad to the West Coast." - Jack Delano

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https://www.shorpy.com/node/27357?size=_original#caption

Checker cars post

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The above was all I had, and I wondered about the taxi, but Steve knew! Not a good looking front, unique, but not good. The fende...
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120 Ferraris on a 950-mile route through the countryside of Andalusian southern Spain. The Ferrari Cavalcade 2025 (to take part at the Cavalcade you need to have 5 different Ferraris in your garage)

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https://www.ferrari.com/en-EN/magazine/articles/2025-cavalcade-siviglia https://thegentlemanracer.com/2025/06/ferrari-cavalcade-2025/ read a...

If you've been looking forward to looking through railroad lanterns, and other steam locomotive era train stuff, to buy for a fathers day gift... you're going to like this auction (I'd like that Seth Thomas No. 2 Railroad regulator myself!)

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  there must be a 180 lanterns, a there are railroad luggage racks, oilers, office chairs, spittoons, passes, time tables, locks, stock cert...
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Wednesday, June 11, 2025

this guy was driving this way, but I was able to catch up to him and snap this photograph at the stop light, and then he continued to keep driving this way. Very weird

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weird license plate, looks old, but it's on a brand new Sequoia. The internet says it's an Occupational License Plate

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Occupational licenses are issued to businesses and professions that provide vehicle-related services in California.  These include: Vehicle...

BMW converted a pair of 1800 TI sedans into pickups in the '60s for use as service vehicles by a BMW dealership in France.

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  https://www.carandclassic.com/auctions/1965-bmw-1800-ti-pick-up-nP20a8 https://www.thedrive.com/news/bmw-supposedly-built-2-of-these-littl...