Friday, April 04, 2025

New Jersey's Merci Train boxcar, a long-lost gift from France to New Jersey in 1949, lost since 1958 and thought to be destroyed, is returning tom New Jersey

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Lost since 1958, the car was identified in 2024 as New Jersey’s and is set to return for restoration and preservation by the Boonton-based ...

I think I must have posted excavators using roller skates before, but if you've never seen it....

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All aluminium body Bat Man Drag Car by Fugitive Custom Cars

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  https://www.instagram.com/hard.metal/p/C4MKNbXP5vX/?img_index=5 https://www.hemmings.com/stories/phantom-cougar-fastback-takes-2024-toront...

St. Johns Bicycle Band of St. Johns, Michigan, c. 1890

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https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=968362771949885&set=a.432410272211807 According to the Clinton County Republican-News Centennial Is...

the 1932 Murphy Bodied Lincoln Roadster that was the Indianapolis 500 pace car with Eddie Rickenbacker, Henry Ford, Edsel Ford, Harvey Firestone Jr., Henry Ford Il seated high, Benson Ford, and Harvey Firestone.

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the US Mint is still wasting time making coins that aren't getting circulated, but this one will be of interest to some of you... Michigan's 1 dollar coin, celebrates the car manufacturing history, Indiana's celebrates the Indy 500

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Bryan Cranston did the voice over work for this new Ford commercial, he's a great choice for spokeman work

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Thursday, April 03, 2025

A battered Austin Seven appeared on the roof of Cambridge University overnight in June 1958, when 12 engineering students hoisted an Austin Seven to the top of the Senate House (thank you Steve!)

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They found a derelict Austin Seven van in Harston and towed it into Cambridge, they took out the engine and removed the wheels to make it li...
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Honda's new prelude has been caught on the street

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  https://carbuzz.com/honda-prelude-interior-reveal/
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this 68 Camaro 427 Motion set a 10.45-second quarter-mile record

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And the 2nd owner was racing a 1970 Plymouth Hemi Cuda one night when the police showed up and set a blockade.  While the Cuda stopped, the...

Lalilique hood ornament

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https://www.hagerty.com/media/automobilia/our-two-cents-7-of-our-favorite-pieces-of-automobilia/

the Brothers Collection Museum now has 2 new ways to see the collection, and the money goes to charities. It is now open to the general public only a few days a year via pre-sold tickets, and is having a cruise in this August

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Awareness about this historical array of hot rides used to be really difficult unless you knew someone who knew someone who knew someone. Fo...

A moment to share with you a real fun Chuck Berry song - No Particular Place To Go

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… Ridin' along in my automobile My baby beside me at the wheel I stole a kiss at the turn of a mile My curiosity runnin' wild Cr...
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model A jack

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Wednesday, April 02, 2025

John Krasinski has a movie coming out where he drives a Shelby Cobra. Stanley Tucci and Natalie Portman co-star, Guy Ritchie directs. Premiers May 23rd

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last September the apparel company Tuner Cult gifted a Nevada man a 2016 Porsche 911 GT3 RS. Last Friday the Porsche was going 85 in a 45, swerved to avoid another car, and left the road, but landed on the wheels

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and here's what it looked like when it was given away : The sheriff’s office noted that the driver was taken into custody for suspicion ...

2025 Ford Mustang GTD Spirit Of America

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https://fordauthority.com/2025/04/ford-mustang-gtd-spirit-of-usps-coming-later-this-year-exclusive/
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Magpul decided around 2013 that they wanted to conduct some business in a high-class environment, and elegantly restored a 1952 Flxible to do the job . . .

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  On the inside, Magpul has stocked the cabinet with 1950’s era weaponry. The top row of the cabinet has a line of 1911 handguns, and below ...
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Due a policy change at Ford, Revology is no longer permitted to build licensed reproduction Mustang rolling chassis.

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Ford has decided to implement a new policy regarding its vehicle licensing agreements as of January 1st, 2025. Ford’s new policy is to lic...

the chief of a volunteer fire department in New Jersey plead guilty to throwing buckets of rocks and debris on a rare (1 of 30) 1995 Nismo 270R in retaliation for a next door neighbor issue of how water drained from the car owners land to the fire dept land

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The 270R—a version of the S14 Silvia tuned in-house by Nismo—is undeniably rare and particularly desirable, and this example was reportedly...
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Tuesday, April 01, 2025

some kid who didn't know their future would be working as an automotive journalist photographed a LOT of the semis at a rest area off I-5 in 1972!

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  https://www.curbsideclassic.com/blog/vintage-trucks/a-gallery-of-vintage-long-wheelbase-west-coast-coe-trucks-why-did-they-do-this/
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lol

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Leno got to drive one of my favorite historic cars, the Thomas Flyer

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https://www.hagerty.com/media/automotive-history/jay-leno-drives-the-coolest-old-car-ever/
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The National Historic Vehicle Register, the program that records the history of America’s most significant automobiles, and it's an interesting yardstick to judge my, or any other, website about cool cars. A great site would have most of these, an amazing site would have them all and thousands of others

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  https://driversfoundation.org/register I think I've only never heard of, and not posted, the 1896 Benton Harbor Motor Carriage

it turns out there are some really strange things that happen on April Fools day, that get in the news... that aren't prank news headlines. Here's one, the Mackinac Bridge shut down today, which I've never heard of happening before, because of falling ice due to serious rain, freezing temps, etc

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