Monday, March 24, 2025

Saul Leiter, New York City streets in color

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Saul Leiter took photos every day for 60 years in New York’s East Village, capturing daily life in the neighborhood where he lived for his e...

the website www.allcarindex.com has info on 14,647 brands of cars...

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  https://www.allcarindex.com/

the last time this car was on the road was 1973

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https://www.autoevolution.com/news/man-sees-his-57-bel-air-out-of-the-barn-after-53-years-the-car-is-for-sale-any-takers-248805.html#

As of March 2025, thirteen of London’s historic green cabmen’s shelters remain. These shelters, originally established between 1875 and 1950 to provide cab drivers with a place to rest and refresh

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Sunday, March 23, 2025

in 1979 a dad purchased this car for his 14 yr old son, from a towing yard, for 900.00. '71 Mach 1, w/ 351

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'75 Nickey Nova with an LS6, 3.73 gears and a Turbo 400. Super Chevy took the former Deuce to Irwindale and ran a best of 13.70 @ 98.4 MPH on street tires

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A-26 is getting closer to wrapping up a restoration. It was made at the end of WW2, then put into storage and didn't get flown until years later when Standard Oil bought it for company VIPs

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https://www.fox13now.com/news/uniquely-utah/labor-of-love-aims-to-return-historic-wwii-aircraft-to-skies-over-utah#google_vignette they'...
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Douglas AD-4 Skyraider (thanks George!)

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https://vintageaviationnews.com/warbirds-news/military-aviation-museums-skyraider-to-join-eaa-airventures-korea-75th-commemoration.html

a nuke MM bubblehead has a classic 60s/70s restoration company of Broncos, Mustangs, Blazers, Scouts and Ford trucks! (thanks Marc!)

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  https://www.velocityrestorations.com/ https://www.facebook.com/@VelocityRestorations https://www.military.com/off-duty/autos/velocity-rest...

Heather Broberg sitting in her 29 Model A

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good idea

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thanks to Volksrob! Here's the story of Peter Mounsey, 96, with his '49 Velocette, the he hit 97 mph with! His goal was one mpg per year of age!

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An Australian yachting legend who sailed around the world with his wife in the 1950s https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-16/cars-set-records...

Six years ago on Lake Gairdner, Lionel West flipped the original Bronze Aussie at over 250mph. Now it's rebuilt and looking to break 300 mph, but only achieved 291

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  West set a new Australian record (282mph) for his class of vehicle and reached a top speed of 291mph . https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
Saturday, March 22, 2025

hailing a cab

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  https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2025/03/hailing-that-cab.html

A group of U.S. Marines rescued a wounded civilian stranded without food and water in the middle of the California desert, waving a green flag from a boulder below, last month

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The crew spotted a stranded off-road motorcyclist and quickly realized a swift intervention was needed. They landed their helicopter 500 met...
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the collector car market continues to slump, and sellers have finally lowered their expectations

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the Median Sale Price has continued its 23-month losing streak. https://www.hagerty.com/media/market-trends/the-collector-car-market-has-dip...

'02 Saleen Mustang that hit everything but the lottery!

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  It got a new rear end housing  2 new rear tires  Both front fenders  Passenger door  New Cobro hood  New 2004 cobro cloth top   New header...

road side attractions are getting more eye catching! Here's a helo on a fuel station in Europe, that rotates the blades if you put change in the machine! (Thank you Shas!) Orlen is Polish company, heli is Mi-2 designed by Mikhail Mil built on license in Poland and this gas station is in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia.

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the BYD Seagull is one specific model that the CEO of Ford has admitted he’s worried about from a competitive standpoint. It sells for $9,700 in China, and is already slated to be sold in Europe, and a cheaper variant is set to launch in the UK this year, too.

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BYD is already enjoying success in the UK, with 62 dealers currently operating and 120 expected to be up and running by the end of 2025.   A...
Friday, March 21, 2025

In the aftermath of World War II, there was a plan to repurpose surplus assault gliders as a temporary housing

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https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=685927207281458&set=a.187788823761968c
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asking for a friend

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just loving Stephen's art!

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like so many military vets, this one either gained or maintained a sense of humor despite the circumstances that resulted in the Purple Heart

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Vietnam

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https://www.reddit.com/r/television/comments/1jezsv7/netflix_continues_to_expand_turning_point/ https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/596529c5...

the 70s

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Retired Amtrak conductor Brad Swartzwelter is making headlines for his proposal to use trains to reduce commercial vehicle crashes and congestion along the I-70 mountain corridor in Colorado.

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The I-70 mountain corridor presents a number of risks for truckers — severe winter weather conditions, steep grades, brake failure risk, and...
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Since 2015, Nissan has issued three safety recalls for the 2013-2018 Altima hood latch, after finding, "...the hood could unexpectedly open while driving, increasing the risk of a vehicle crash."

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The 2015 Altima has a five-star safety rating with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.  It also has 891 consumer complaints,...

A fire at an electrical substation knocked out power to Heathrow Airport for most of Friday, forcing Europe’s busiest hub, and the world's fifth-busiest airport, to shut down for roughly 18 hours

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just before midnight on Thursday at a substation about 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) from the airport and took firefighters around seven hours t...
Thursday, March 20, 2025

Space Patrol lead actor Ed Kemmer's 1950s series spawned more than 1000 episodes and introduced a generation of Saturday morning TV viewers (and often their parents) to the wonders of science fiction.

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The show also inspired a NASA engineer who when meeting Kemmer, told him that the show had ignited his passion for space. Kemmer was a war h...

HA! How quickly the worm turns

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https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1073320101491698&set=a.674940451329667 80 Teslas damaged at Hamilton dealership  near Lime Ridge Ma...
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a young Sparta Tennessee teen couple disappeared in 2000 when their car missed a corner, went into a river and they died... their car (98 Grand Am) and remains were finally located in 2021, when YouTube diver Jeremy Beau Sides discovered their car

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There was no guard rail when the teens went off the road https://www.facebook.com/jeremybechtelanderinfoster/posts/pfbid0eHnLyfBt2M2btKFsof7...