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Monday, July 20, 2026

Boston moved its highway underground in 2003. This was the result.

https://x.com/fasc1nate/status/2077789138380619899

THIS is an IMPOSTER! Not Just A Car Guy! Dang it.. I knew I should have gotten that vanity plate so no one else in California would... not it's too late a damn Tesla has it

Don't be fooled by imposters!

Ford only took 3 years to remedy leaking turbocharger oil return lines on the Australian Ranger and Everest

To date, no real fix has been issued - outside of just replacing failed lines with new ones of the same design - but now, The Blue Oval has ...

how much cocaine is getting smuggled from Mexico to El Paso? Enough to create a monthly cocaine shipment from to Tampa, they just nailed truckers with 132 pounds... just how much cocaine does Florida use in a MONTH? Damn

these idiots learned NOTHING from Clint Eastwoods movie The Mule. look at the photos? Felons... not harmless senior citizens https://www.fr...

Sunday, July 19, 2026

the chief of police is pissed... the comments are hilarious!

https://www.facebook.com/AvonPolice/posts/pfbid0d2SwSYTWEQs5r94Xjw1WhPufsbCvyXma9bT8bGuRng8n8qHDyTLvv6ELPMMGqFKul

"The Mongoose," set to release this October, stars Liam Neeson driving a S650-based Mustang Shelby Super Snake on a high-speed cross-country car chase... and Ving Rhames! Been a long time since I've seen him in anything but Mission Impossible

https://fordauthority.com/2026/07/liam-neeson-drives-an-s650-ford-mustang-shelby-super-snake-in-new-movie-video

keeping the wingnuts from disappearing... good idea!

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=27873369468966971&set=pcb.2366131914204348

Saturday, July 18, 2026

I didn't know there was a remote control car world speed record... thank you Paul !

Stephen Wallis from Warwickshire, set his previous record with a remote-controlled model which recorded a speed of 234.71mph earlier this ...

shaking out the boxcars in the 1930s, how grain filled boxcars were unloaded. Not loaded with sacks, nor bundles nor drums, but raw almost powdered form put right into the boxcar itself!

https://www.facebook.com/ReadingandLehigh/posts/pfbid0px5KJoZ7kv3JM5wYt8MiGNaTrUiRDMmhvwtuJ6GmydvhGpFw8rGSaQgoBhTCKm37l

probably not a good idea, even though it's a good photo, to have a live lion in close proximity, London 1970.

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10227424328754176&set=pcb.3165974116929150

Friday, July 17, 2026

The Federal Highway Administration has quietly stripped bike lanes, speed cameras and several other best practices from a list of "Proven Safety Countermeasures,"

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy called them "DEI bike lanes" in a social media post earlier this month. The FHWA says the chan...

Bob Ross? (Thanks John S!)

great painted garbage cans... probably a covid quarantine project

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1561532298854251&set=gm.1743986469882041&idorvanity=339009140379788

Thursday, July 16, 2026

the Roth Conestoga Star from 1992

https://silodrome.com/for-sale-the-1992-ed-big-daddy-roth-conestoga-star-wagon

1968 Holden Monaro GTS

https://silodrome.com/1968-holden-monaro-gts/

a German rip off of the 50s T Bird, by Auto Union

https://silodrome.com/auto-union-1000-sp-car/

a barn find 1968 Plymouth Hemi GTX Convertible parked in the early 1970s was bought from his estate in 2017, with 34,326 miles showing on the odometer, and it has been driven just three miles since, heading to Mecum in July

https://silodrome.com/plymouth-hemi-gtx

at Laguna, or Birmingham... must be a member of the Mobil 1 DR1VRS club to enter

https://loveofdriving.mobil.com/mobil-1-dr1vrs-club/engage/porsche-track-experience/enter-to-win-member https://loveofdriving.mobil.com/mo...

did you see Pastrana's self adjusting wing at Goodwood Festival of Speed? Deployed in less than a second.

that wing couldn't deploy faster if it were anchored behind him and stayed put while he launched this was either the coolest thing to ...

loving this, Mark Walker in his magnificently silly “Bramble” on the start line at Slowth, from Stefan Marjoram Art & Photography!

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1619364296855274&set=a.129037749221277

Kevin Kim invented a new type of wiper blade design, it's easy to see that there are two edges for getting the water off your windshield with the Kimblade

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61556623059784

Tuesday, July 14, 2026

next month, JCB will be trying for a world land speed record

https://hpj.com/2026/07/06/jcb-hydromax-keeps-pushing-ahead-for-speed-record/

looks like a good movie, about how some might survive an EMP, or a worse case of COVID screwing up civiization, by getting away from the cities

so the VP of the USA was getting a police escort through the Cotswolds of England.... when a tractor was using the road. Kaleb... from Clarkson's Farm

The viral story from The Times involves Clarkson's Farm star Kaleb Cooper telling US Vice President JD Vance's security detail to ...

a third-party inspection of a blown Toyota Tundra engine, the twin-turbo V6 that keeps failing without warning.

Officially, Toyota blames manufacturing debris left inside the oiling passages, which is impossible to verify independently without getting ...

Can O'Reilly parts, buy NAPA? For about 10 billion dollars, yes

https://www.thedrive.com/news/the-10-billion-takeover-that-could-turn-the-auto-parts-business-upside-down-explained

San Diego PD busted by the city’s police oversight commission, for harassing blacks 4 to 1 compared to whites, or hispanics, or asians

Black drivers stopped for low-level traffic violations in San Diego were more than four times as likely as White drivers to be frisked and m...

reboot of Rockford Files update

Boreanaz then said how The Rockford Files reboot will retain classic elements from the beloved detective show, ranging from the lead charact...

THIS is big brother watching, and too many bullies with badges abusing their access to Flock. Greene County, Georgia, deputy arrested after audit shows she used Flock cameras for personal reasons, sheriff says

the cowards in Georgia won't even state what she did, when she repeatedly accessed Flocks database without authorization, illegally. I...

69 R/T stolen, and abandoned decades ago, in San Bruno California right off San Bruno blvd and Burrows st.

It a community garden center that I saw this 69 Coronet R/T laying there, it was abandoned decades ago right there and they kept it there as...

I finally watched the movie Ferrari with Adam Driver last night...

good movie for the inside look at how he struggled with his wife, hating him for their son's death, and his mistress, wanting THEIR son...

Lansing, Illinois is going to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Henry Ford's airplane hangar that produced Ford Tri-Motor airplanes, and connected Ford's Chicago manufacturing plants with the automaker's facilities in Dearborn

https://fordauthority.com/2026/07/illinois-village-to-celebrate-ford-hangars-100th-anniversary

Don't you just hate it when it's a sluggish Monday, you're driving down the street in your steam locomotive, and you hit a telephone pole. It really ruins your day

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1971107123145747&set=a.1513811688875295

Monday, July 13, 2026

Why cats are like cars... thank you Mike!

these people that are asking to join my team at comic con... omg, do they WASTE my time with stupid questions. So, I want to apologize you you wonderful people whom I should have been taking better care of instead. Here's all I have time to post today

https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2026/07/reuse-restore-rework.html

Sunday, July 12, 2026

I just learned more about Janis's 356... her roadie painted the designs, and it was stolen in '69, during a gig at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco.

https://newsroom.porsche.com/en/christophorus/porsche-356-sc-janis-joplin-12303.html

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