Saturday, December 06, 2025

John just told me about Florrie Maloof! His mother in law, who was a WASP in Sweetwater TX, and flew B26’s from the factory to Bangor Me!

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Over 25,000 women applied for the honor of flying for their country during WWII.  Of these, 1,830 were chosen to receive training, and 1,0...

this GT350 fastbacks built for 1968, this was a commuter for 24 years, 5 while attending college, then 7 as a tax accountant, and 12 more during an FBI career. No AC, and an automatic... in Florida, Alabama, and new Jersey

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Joining the FBI had not been on Sizemore’s radar when he was in high school. He was also working part-time at Southside Ford in Jacksonville...

Test Pilot Boone Guyton was out flying the Corsair prototype one day... It did not go well, SNAFU, rain blew in fast, while he ran out of fuel, because he was at max power, using more fuel than normal in a new plane, and had to put 'er down some where fast. Thank you John!

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As Harrison Ford can attest, a golf course will do in an pinch.  https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2015/03/did-you-hear-todays-celebrity-news...
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2016 Ford Mustang Shelby GT-H is available via auction was owned for a decade by the CEO of Hertz, it's a rare supercharged stick shift, and he was lame, and only enjoyed 500 miles of car therapy this beast offered at 670hp, and 3.55 gears

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https://www.mecum.com/lots/1159622/2016-ford-shelby-gt-h-50th-anniversary-coupe/?aa_id=732403-0 https://fordauthority.com/2025/12/hertz-ceos...

Looks like a 71 with a 340, that needs a fortune to make right, as it's likely that everything is rusted that you can't see, or doesn't work, or is locked up with rust. But it must have made some high schooler very damn happy a long time ago

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Thank you John! 

An innovative way to display mission markers on a WW2 bomber, "punching a ticket" on the Tough Shit, with an outhouse tent between the T and the S, and the mission markers were "punched out" around the perimeter

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  42-64051, "T.S.", with the blue reconnaissance camouflage paint half removed, late May or early June 1944,  at Nadzab, New Guine...

In WW2, and when they needed more contract work, bridge companies would make LSTs for the Navy, and water towers for cities and railroad companies LST-669 was launched by the American Bridge Co. in May 1944.

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I posted about the Chicago Bridge and Iron Works making rail road water tanks for steam locomotives, and water towers for cities a couple mo...

modern versions of nose art, with Star Wars characters some just new versions of WW2 Disney military insignia / patches - and with cool mission symbols on the scoreboard, by Phil Postma

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I just posted the original of this last week, the submarine USS Baya, SS 318   https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2025/11/very-unusual-and-out...

First I've seen a Civil Air Patrol plane with nose art, and the Flying Tiger motif of the shark tooth grin

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https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10107863296856888&set=pcb.1499032280268618 for my post on Civil Air Patrol Disney insignia and patch...

I admire all the innovation artists like Hank Porter went through to create a hot rod, or jalopy, and came up with regular junkyard ideas, with excellent clever twists

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One of Hank Porter’s earliest pieces created for the cover of the October 1940 issue of Liberty magazine.  Porter created a patriotic-themed...

Disney even made patch logos for truckers in WW2! the Truck Drivers Battery 202nd Coast Artillery, and 4014th Quartermaster Truck Company

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The art was originally done in May 1941 by Hank Porter https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?Piece=1918834 The  4014th company opera...

USS Odax SS 484, first of the "GUPPY" submarines, then returned to Key West for an intensive research and development. At this time, ODAX was the fastest of U. S. submarines, and first to get a Snorkel mast (for testing in addition to main induction mast)

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  sold to Brazil with another sub, in 1972 https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=2833944896903686&set=pcb.2003775719794269 https://ussodax...
Friday, December 05, 2025

Ken Walkey was a 300 mph Landspeed racer, Dry Lakes Racing Hall of Fame, Car builder, and Korean War Navy Veteran, plus a Disney Imagineer for 25 years, and the Ventura County Model T club founder and president

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Always fascinated by cars, he purchased his first car (a '26 Chevy touring sedan) and got it running at age 13, joined the Burbank Flywh...

more nose art! For B-25s of the 310th and 12th Bomb Groups

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12th Bomb Group, 83 Bomb Squadron, B-25C in North Africa.   The "Pluto" nose art was unique to the plane and not the 12th BG.     ...

it's a lot of kid's imagination, and Hollywood magic, and it looks like FUN, plus, it has a bus made into a plane

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Andy Wilman's new book is getting some publicity from Jeremy

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this is pretty damn cool... a movie and tv car poster, by Thomas Estrada. Posters are an incredibly affordable 11 dollars and 24 are still availbale

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https://www.artofthomasestrada.com/product-page/18-x24-iconicars-poster Thomas began an amazing career in Hollywood art in 1997 when he left...

Pinstripers... talented people! All they need is time, a brush, and some One Shot. This kick ass work is by Hot Rod Jen, and she sells them too

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Coolest bulbs since Shiny Brite https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1402247847936108&set=gm.1229147929026439 and she is a cool photogra...