Wednesday, April 01, 2026

the Boyertown Museum of Historic Vehicles

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seen on today's walk...

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another 914 in this neighborhood... but that's a flat front tire on the passenger side front. what the hell is the deal with this licens...

East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office detectives recover $62,000 in stolen packages from a storage unit

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https://www.wafb.com/2026/02/18/fedex-driver-arrested-after-62000-stolen-packages-found-storage-unit/

a court has concluded the 15-year legal battle over a Caltrans project that aims to modify a stretch of Highway 101 through Richardson Grove State Park.

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a three-judge panel in California’s First District Court of Appeal affirmed a lower court’s decision to reject the latest lawsuit from cons...

there's a new way to fix photos, and use Photoshop. It's called Restore AI, but the cost is about the same

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https://www.on1.com/restore-old-photos

beware the April Fools pranks, there is buggery afoot

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https://fordauthority.com/2026/04/ford-mustang-mach-t-revealed-as-pony-cars-first-pickup
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

there's an easier way to start an old motorcycle than an electric starter... a shotgun shell port, same as airplane engines

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lol, enlisted grunt doing his time in the Navy fixing jets (in boondockers!) memorialized with a photo... when officers memorialized their Navy time with a photo, they were flying the damn jets, or in the cockpit

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the Wrigley family (Wrigley Field in Chicago named for them) bought a Douglas C-47 Skytrain, converted it to a DC-3 in 1947 and used it to fly from Chicago to Catalina Island

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The Wrigley family eventually sold the plane and only recently was the family able to track it down and repurchase it. Alison said last week...
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environmental and Indigenous groups filed a lawsuit in Las Vegas federal court, arguing that the Rhyolite Ridge Lithium-Boron Project in Nevada, one of North America’s largest sources of lithium, poses a major threat to the endangered Tiehm’s Buckwheat, a desert flower endemic to the area, which could even cause it to go extinct.

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Of course, it's in the middle of nowhere between Vegas and Reno, and no one outside of the people in the lawsuit have ever heard of, or ...
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Walt Disney and Ward Kimball at the Chicago Railroad Fair of '48

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the Santa Rosa parents of a 16-year-old just discovered the cost of getting their i8 BMW out of impound, and bail for their kid, as that dumbass was arrested for reckless driving, at 130 mph on the 101

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This is NOT that actual car, it's the i8 I found last week parked in Mira Mesa.  https://autos.yahoo.com/people-and-culture/articles/tee...

dropping a new Vette.... really? How after all these decades of using lifts, has the process not become fool proof? How after a decade of internet ridicule, hasn't every shop and garage, gotten the message "there will be international online shame and notoriety if you drop a car on a lift"?

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it’s not the first time a C8 Corvette has fallen off a lift. This marks at least the third documented case since the model’s introduction, w...
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Monday, March 30, 2026

seen on tonight's walk, first time I've seen a seen an Austin Healey 3000 on a walkabout

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this looks like it's a Halloween display... but it's just years of neglect. Hard to believe the owner walks/drives past this and sees it nearly every day

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seen while grabbing lunch today... look at this over the top back bumper

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Sunday, March 29, 2026

lucky kids got to do the family Christmas card photo in their Dad’s jet on Miramar

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https://www.facebook.com/groups/110663305532/permalink/10173004662670533/ I was stationed there for the last two years of it being a Navy ba...

The infamous "Backwards Train"

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TTI headers are reputed to be the best. Looks like they fail to do the same fundamental thing everyone fails at. Do a good job at spark plug clearance! What the EFF is this BULLSHIT? It's GD LAZY is what it is. Look at all that space to the rear of the engine!

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On February 3, 2026, a Kyrgyzstan national who entered the United States through the Biden administration’s CBP One application, was driving a commercial truck in Indiana

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he failed to slow for traffic and swerved into the westbound lane.  The van he struck was carrying six Amish people. Four of them died. He h...
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American drive-in restaurants, iconic for 1950s carhop service, neon lights, and parking lot dining, every little town used to have one or two, and teens in the late 60s used to pick a direction and hit everyone to test the shakes/malts and burgers

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I don't have enough time to do a proper post on just how damn cool I think it must have been to be a teen in 1969-70, too young for the ...
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in an odd merge of themes, this one neighborhood in Mira Mesa has streets named for places in BC Canada, and stars

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an ol shipmate of mine in the PI just posted that some drastic alternatives to gas have shown up

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spiffy looking BMW... I never thought I'd see one of these parked on the roadside

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