Tuesday, April 08, 2025

There is a vintage car museum in Kentucky that opened in 2022 that has over 250 vehicles billed as the ‘most mind-blowing private car collection in the midwest.’ It is called Collection 21.Tours are available to the public every Friday and Saturday.

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That museum has a partnership with HONK, Housing Opportunities of Northern Kentucky, and 100 percent of the proceeds from the museum goes to...

season 1, Hunt Episode, Love, Death, and Robots - had some very cool steam punk

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While stuck at a stop light, I look around. I found this very cool

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have you seen the new Ferrari? Interesting

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first one I've seen in black... I wonder if they had to smooth the body first to get it flat enough to show off?

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have you seen dad joke bumper stickers yet?

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Kiah Hall (Savannah Georgia) is one of the original 1856 components of the country's only intact antebellum railroad complex. Savannah College of Art & Design is housed in an 1853 brick structure that was once a railway depot for the Central of Georgia Railway.

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Originally conceived as a major trade post for Savannah, the railroad complex was occupied by Union troops at the close of the Civil War.  I...

I'm shocked to learn that there are still tires made in the USA. Cooper, some Goodyear, Kelly,

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Goodyear still retains some manufacturing facilities in the United States. Apart from its home state Ohio, it also has tire plants in eight...

a guy with a junkyard and a small excavator pulled a working Quest van for his makeshift storm/tornado shelter, dug a hole, stuffed it in, securely routed the exhaust out and away, and waited out the storm.

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  https://www.thedrive.com/news/kentucky-folks-bury-minivan-with-temu-excavator-to-create-diy-storm-shelter So, why the hell aren't hous...

Swanton Berry Farm's sign, a landmark on the Pacific Coast Highway above Santa Cruz, California

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https://www.deere.com/en/publications/the-furrow/2025/april-2025/roadside-attraction

Enzo Ferrari had actually founded Auto Avio Costruzioni (AAC) in 1938 to manufacture aircraft parts and machine tools for the Italian Government. By December of 1939, Lotario Rangoni, Marquis of Modena, had commissioned Enzo and AAC to build two racing cars for himself and a young Alberto Ascari to use in the upcoming Mille Miglia.

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  https://rossoautomobili.com/blogs/magazine/enzo-ferrari-first-car-auto-avio-costruzioni-tipo-815

oil hasn't been this low priced since Feb 2021, so, why is the price of gas suddenly 1 dollar more than last week? And just how low must it get before the price of a gallon of gas is about 2 or 3 dollars in California?

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  https://markets.businessinsider.com/commodities/oil-price?type=wti
Monday, April 07, 2025

Do you remember Creem magazine? In the 1970s, Creem magazine featured a popular series called Stars Cars

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  https://www.vintag.es/2025/04/stars-cars-1970s.html#google_vignette

Merle Haggard once leased this dome car, the Silver Palace.

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Haggard may have leased the thing for his doomed whistle-stop tour, a rolling Farm Aid campaign to drum up support for the country’s struggl...

some Canada and USA car stats

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Canada is the largest importer of U.S. cars and trucks, and the U.S. is the biggest importer of Canadian-made vehicles, with over 90% of the...

A Police Officer And His Dog Riding A Motorcycle, 1930

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  https://www.aol.com/78-fascinating-old-photos-history-062914823.html

Construction on Disney’s new, 22-story New York City headquarters at Hudson Street caused what the city said was nearly $6 million in “significant structural damage” to the neighboring Spring Street NYC Fire Museum, forcing it to close for nearly a year.

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“Construction work at the site of the new Disney HQ caused damage to the FDNYs historic building, which is home to the NYC Fire Museum,” a c...

Kawasaki made a robot horse, powered by a hydrogen engine

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  It goes without saying that the video above is almost entirely CGI. The Corleo on display at the Osaka Expo can stand and adjust its postu...

funniest thing I've read all week.

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  mindin’ my business, when this absolute dumpster fire of a pickup — I’m talkin’ rustier than a stripper pole at a condemned dive bar — com...

in a strange series of circumstances, I've not needed to have brakes turned, rotors or drums, in about 20 or 25 years. So, not that my commuter needs the front discs turned, I find that the action of turning rotors, is obsolete.

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I stopped by a garage that does a LOT of repairs, from transmissions to brakes.  Well... they came highly recommended, so I dropped by to ma...
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Sunday, April 06, 2025

Greek urn with a chariot, from 2500 years ago!

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  https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2025/04/black-figure-lekythos-greece-circa-500.html

it's been 8 years, but I recognized this Starliner... there just aren't that many race inspired 1960 Starliners out there. I posted this one in 2017, now it's up for auction

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https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2017/05/nascar-inspired-1960-starliner-build.html   for the post and the video  https://www.hagerty.com/mar...

flooding at Mammoth Spring State Park derailed an empty coal train that seems to have been left on the bridge over the river as the storm (which was predicted) wiped out a couple bridge supports

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  https://www.4029tv.com/article/train-derails-as-flood-water-rises-in-northern-arkansas/64395666
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A Sun brand licensed set of Kal Equip diagnostic meters, and a Sun timing light, is coming to auction

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https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2025/01/kal-equip-co-of-otsego-michigan-maker.html   for my recent post on these cool vintage diagnostic pi...

This 1965 Ford dealership sign from Yockey Friendly Ford dealership in Roselle, Illinois is set to be auctioned off at Mecum’s upcoming Indianapolis, Indiana sale in May

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https://fordauthority.com/2025/04/1965-ford-dealership-sign-heading-to-auction/

no one advertises brake pads anymore....

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  https://issuu.com/morphyauctions/docs/flipdoc_feb_21-22_gas?fr=sMDBjOTY0OTU4MTA
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1920s card stock and oak frame accordion display for flashlights

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  https://issuu.com/morphyauctions/docs/flipdoc_feb_21-22_gas?fr=sMDBjOTY0OTU4MTA

I'd learned of the Rosetta stone, but only just now heard of the similar tri-lingual Behistun Inscription 100 meters above an ancient road connecting the capitals of Babylonia and Media. It's the worlds first roadside billboard, 2500 years ago.

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The Behistun Inscription is a multilingual inscription and large rock relief on a cliff in western Iran, made sometime between 522 BC and 48...
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an example of why it's enjoyable to watch the old Top Gear episodes

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a variety of pop up headlight designs

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robot's on wheels... like this BMX size bicycle, can now do tricks. Skip the first 18 seconds, get right to it. Rai umv

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this horse drawn trolley car, the horsecar 76, is believed to be the oldest preserved streetcar in the world, built somewhere between 1853 and 1862.

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the incredible private subway car of August Belmont Jr., the financier for the first subway line in New York City at the Shore Line Trolley ...
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(not fact checked) In 1878 Amédée père designed La Mancelle, which is regarded as the first automobile (steam powered, not gas) to be put into series production, 50 being manufactured in all.

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  https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=9354560094620613&set=gm.10161140128822481&idorvanity=119087132480
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McKeen Motor Car #2. The First all Steel Railmotor Car, made from legit Carnegie and Bethlehem steel!

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  https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1074654178042198&set=pcb.1074661544708128
Saturday, April 05, 2025

there is a LOT of love for the Harry Potter stories and movies

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odd faceted camo wrap...

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