Sunday, March 08, 2026

Hurst SS Cuda with it's original engine pulled out of the widow's garage and brought to the Barnfind section of the MCACN

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It’s 1 of only 70 Super Stock BO29 Hemi Barracudas modified by Hurst Performance for competition in the 1968 season.  Californian George Wej...

1 of only 40 Hemi Charger 500s. The original owner drove it for only 3 years before parking it in his garage. In August of this 2025, 53 years after it was last driven, the car was rescued

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https://www.hemmings.com/stories/barn-finds-hidden-gems-at-the-2025-mcacn-car-show

this MCACN barnfind '73 Citroën SM was extensively modified by prior owner

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Bob Diemert was a self-educated engineer known in the aviation world for his meticulous restorations of  a Hawker Hurricane fighter (one of ...

Barnfind Jag... but what will it cost the next owner to make it safely roadworthy? The XK140 only has 15,570 miles on its odometer, was found in a barn in Virginia several years ago. Its 2nd owner last had it on the road in 1967.

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The 3rd owner is a Jag restorer who obviously figured out it's now financially feasible to restore it, so he's looking to sell it fo...

how is it possible that a 1965 Volkswagen Type 2 Van has been lying in a New Mexico field for 39 years?

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https://www.hemmings.com/stories/abandoned-1965-vw-type-2-camper-field-find/

Classy is getting a 250 Testarossa to drive away from your wedding, instead of a new Ferrari. F1 driver Charles Leclerc got married in Monaco, and used the cool old Ferrari to leave the wedding in

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https://petrolicious.com/blogs/articles/a-moment-in-motion-charles-leclerc-s-wedding-drive-in-a-testa-rossa

speculators sure have driven up the price of oil

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https://markets.businessinsider.com/commodities/oil-price?type=wti
Saturday, March 07, 2026

there's a really well done comic about the Duckberg F1 fan club, free online...

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I can see why they made it narrow, and vertically scrolling online, but I do not like that since so many morons can't hold a cell phone ...

US Antarctic Program Snowmobile – 1960s

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  https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2026/03/us-antarctic-program-snowmobile-1960s.html

a moment to ponder the legal problem truckers are stuck with, the states don't allow pistols for self defense (a great idea for overnighting in truck stops) to cross state lines. So, why is a state license plate 50 state compatible, but not the 2nd amendment?

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Why does a driver’s license work nationwide… …but a constitutional right stops at state borders?  You can legally drive across all 50 states...
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remember that Montana license plate scheme to get out of paying state sales taxes? Now Marin County (and those very rich wine country people) are under scrutiny. I've been posting about this since 2017

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  California regulators are reviewing every recent car sale in Montana as they crack down on a tax-evading scheme called the “Montana Loopho...
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1962, Philadelphia Giant Snow Plow, Odd looking

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https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1315209717309626&set=a.538497801647492
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biggest grader I've ever seen

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https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=7739628106065393&set=gm.7343570565693973&idorvanity=290218184362615

72 GMC 2500 still getting in done

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https://www.facebook.com/groups/290218184362615

nice simple website page for the car show events in San Diego

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https://www.sandiegoassociationofcarclubs.org/fulllistofevents

new category of collecting, and far from the typical - instead of collecting trophies, this Bee owner collects state line signs as he drives his Bee across them

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https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10167428836288508&set=pcb.25742881882073797

'55 Arnolt-Bristol

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'American' car devised by Chicago industrialist Stanley H. "Wacky" Arnolt, in actuality a Bristol chassis shipped from the...
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ever heard of a streamliner that was used as a roadside attraction? The Thunderbowl Comet was one, near Acton on the Sierra Highway, it was on a stretched L29 Cord chassis and eventually was bought and dismantled for its Cord parts.

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the Golden Eagle aka Thunderbowl Comet.  Although the car's story varies from one teller to the next, it did at least portray a Muroc D...
Friday, March 06, 2026

just sitting there on a side street looking like the owner gave up on it... it looks like it's never had a rich owner, no one even put on some Cragars, and it's beginning to show the decades of neglect

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Why this neighborhood insists on such hideous rims, on so MANY cool old cars, I do not know it was sitting there 2 months ago with a flat fr...
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I spy, with my little eyes, a Trans Am? Firebird?

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seen on tonight's walk

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Chevelle? Horrid rims. I don't think I've come across a Prospector in person until now they are asking 2500, it's not running. I...
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