Friday, December 19, 2025

there are places in this world it sure would be nice to visit, and have the time to enjoy with friends

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https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2025/12/friday-open-road_19.html

Uh Oh

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https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2025/12/oops.html

can wood pulp be turned into fuel for planes and other aircraft?

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Starting this year, airports within the European Union must use at least 2 percent of what’s known as Sustainable Aviation Fuel, or SAF, wit...

I had a job interview a couple days ago... this was my idiot light of doom

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  Because the temps dropped to 50, and that was enough to bring down all the tires to 25 psi.  It stressed me out for a minute though, of co...

By the way, I'm enjoying a couple of the Jeeves and Wooster books of P.G. Wodehouse, and this one, The Inimitable Jeeves, mentions Goodwood!

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while watching a movie last week, I learned that Air Force Base sorta translates to "Flystasjon" which I figure is flying station. It's neat to see how words sometimes sorta stay similar in other languages, like coffee, and hi

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On September 30, 2025, the EEOC announced a lawsuit against El Paso-based company Fat and Broke, Inc., doing business as Gamer Logistics for firing older trucker and refusing to hire drivers over age 65

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According to the EEOC, Gamer Logistics fired a 69 year old truck driver in March 2024. The driver had worked for Gamer Logistics for four ye...

some cars were only available in one color... like the GNX

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https://www.autoevolution.com/news/5-iconic-muscle-cars-that-were-available-in-a-single-paint-scheme-258330.html

authentic vintage advertising all over this car, so much more than most

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https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=25571027305832692&set=gm.3326993607466285&idorvanity=196642123834798

1970 twin-engined Margay Cheetah go-kart

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Margay Racing was founded in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1964 by Elmer Freber – it initially operated under the name Mar-Kart. The company’s ear...

Curbside posted another cool collection of vintage photos, these commercial vehicles

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https://www.curbsideclassic.com/vintage-snapshots-and-photography/vintage-photos-of-commercial-vehicles-of-the-1950s-and-1960s/

a off-duty detail coordinator in the Sanford PD’s Professional Standards unit, was charged with 79 counts of official misconduct, as well as organized fraud, for faking 79 off-duty shifts for which he was paid more than $12K

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A 23-year veteran, off-duty detail coordinator, former spokesperson for the Sanford Police Department, and  investigator in SPD’s Profession...

"Rogfast" will be the world’s longest and deepest undersea road tunnel.

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  When completed, it will become the world’s longest and deepest undersea road tunnel. Stretching roughly 17 miles and plunging nearly 1,312...

Honda has announced that it will suspend production at several sites in Japan on January 5 and 6, with reduced operations until January 9., and close three factories in China from December 29 through January 2. Honda had to reduce or halt its operations because of the lack of supply of legacy chips

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The trouble began in mid-October when the Dutch government seized it from Wingtech, its Chinese owner, following concerns of illegal techno...

Seventy-five years after a USAF C-54 Skymaster disappeared into the Yukon with 44 people aboard, a team of volunteers and investigators plans to use artificial intelligence and satellite technology to find it.

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The Douglas C-54 Skymaster,  a militarized version of the Douglas DC-4,  departed Elmendorf Air Force Base on January 26, 1950, carrying 42 ...

the new ZR1 with 1,064 hp finally has some track time, and ripped off a 9.270 @ 153.30 mph

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https://www.corvetteblogger.com/2025/12/17/video-new-quarter-mile-record-for-the-corvette-zr1-set-by-dragtimes/

Mercedes-Benz Special Trucks (a division) has revealed the most luxurious Unimog ever. Not sure how many they're going to sell, but that was my opinion of the Cybertruck too

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https://www.autoblog.com/news/mercedes-benz-special-trucks-luxury-unimog

all that remains of a plane

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 minute 13:20 in the video, and the 2nd engine at 15:30

this guy is out to pull VW vans out of the woods... where they've been sinking into the ground for decades

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Fys4aPdSeY
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zero suspension, questionable rims battered from daily use... but they went for bigger higher jumps anyway

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https://flashbak.com/snapshots-of-kids-bike-jumping-in-the-1970s-476580/

December 1973

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https://flashbak.com/portland-gas-crisis-1970s-479450/

thanks to Robert L for sending me the link to this photojournalists article on motorcyclists!

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American Motorcycling Culture by Jack Lueders-Booth https://flashbak.com/american-bikers-jack-lueders-booth-480551/
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LiDAR is really good at finding what is geographically there, but hard to see due to trees, example, racetrack

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https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10241971350479268&set=gm.2251551475342854&idorvanity=1508789132952429

it's not impossible to prevent a car from being destroyed in a flood... here's another successful method

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https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1620320762788726&set=a.204020534418763

a time out for a racing story

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Ken Gillanders of Temple City CA, drag raced a TR-2 in the sixties and seventies.  He made his own oversized cylinder liners out of high pre...

a lot of Minis on the 1964 RAC Rally

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a mangled propeller is about all that remains of a B-17 bomber that crashed by the Porcupine Mountains (Upper Peninsula of Michigan, the Yoop!)

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On April 18th, 1944 the B-17 was on a training mission when it left Sioux City Iowa headed to Marquette. During the flight an engine caught ...

Mario Andretti, Monaco 1971

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https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=25198235776452467&set=gm.2958921794301051&idorvanity=527146584145263
Thursday, December 18, 2025

how freaking outraged would you be if you were at a race track (probably not covered by your insurance company) and some construction equipment the track owns was driven into your race car? (At about 20-30 mph)

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a worker driving a telehandler crashed into two Nissan Skyline GT-Rs, an R32 and a R34, while they were stopped on the track’s front straigh...