Wednesday, August 26, 2026
so... you can easily create an “adversarial noise” pattern that will make a license plate difficult for AI to recognize while still appearing normal to people.
and Florida instantly made it illegal to prevent Flock cameras from reading your license plate
Florida law explicitly prohibits covering, obscuring, or interfering with the legibility, visibility, or detectability of a license plate number or validation sticker, as well as interfering with the ability to record the plate details via electronic recording devices or cameras
Or get a wrap for your whole car, that looks like a 1000 license plates?
In 1950, Allen Hawke left his career at Ford Motor Company, purchased a factory from Ford on the way out the door, and set up shop in Clarkston, Michigan, about 40 miles northwest of Detroit. Three years later, the first Pony Cycles rolled out of the Hawk Tool & Engineering factory.
Hawk Tool & Engineering first sold Pony Cycles directly and through bicycle shops. As production smoothed and gained speed, it struck a deal with Montgomery Ward to make the scooter available through its catalog. This decision branded the scooters as Montgomery Ward models—Special, Deluxe, and Supreme—and started increasing both awareness and demand significantly.
https://www.hagerty.com/media/automotive-history/the-pony-cycles-short-lived-success-and-lasting-legacy
1965 Sunbeam Tiger was 2,500lbs, powered by a 260 cu in, 164 hp Ford with a two-barrel carb, a mild cam and 2.88 gears. But it had a lot of potential
Fortunately, the American Hot Rod Association (AHRA) allowed modifications within their XL Production Sports category.
This Tiger ran in the XF/A Foreign Sports class and did quite well.
The factory optional equipment included a 715-cfm Holley four-barrel carb, a solid lifter cam and 3.73 gears.
At the end of 1965 Gordon Chittenden of Glendora California was the AHRA national record holder in XF/A with a 14.35 at 98.46 mph.
Gord did get the car down to 13.52 by the end of '65
and into the twelves in 1966.
Imagine getting insulted and butt hurt when people are concerned over their constitutional rights being violated by illegal mass surveillance. Well that’s exactly what happened to this police chief in Chetek, Wisconsin
“ I ought to do background checks on half the people that make comments “
A guy named Jimmy Balls was spotted walking around Daytona Beach today carrying what appears to be a camera, solar panel and pole.
What if we make our OWN completely fake Flock cameras?
Don’t do anything that ends with you explaining constitutional law to a deputy while wearing handcuffs.
Instead…
BUILD YOUR OWN RIDICULOUS FAKE ONE.
Cardboard camera, PVC pipe, Fake solar panel.
Maybe an old Ring camera duct-taped to a pool noodle.
Then go over to the police dept parking lot area, on the public sidewalk or grassy area between the sidewalk and the fence... and put that fake Flock camera where it will just look into the police dept parking lot, and make one for the parking lot of city hall... and one over by the mayors home, and the councilmembers homes, and etc etc.
Just fake cameras everywhere...
Tuesday, August 25, 2026
just how much of a lead on the cops does a biker need to have, to feel confident enough that they won't get caught while they stop at a gas station to tank up? (Thank you Marc! )
So, this moron just turned 19, stole the bike, and we can only guess he figured (not having actual thoughts about what he was doing has to figure into this idiocy) that he could get away with a stolen dirt bike in East LA
But he did something no one else I've ever heard of, has ever pulled off... he got a friend to drop a gallon of gas off in a park, where he stopped and tried filling the tank on the motorcycle with it... serious, that's some damn cool planning under high stress conditions!
New meaning to Phone A Friend!
New meaning to Phone A Friend!
Monday, August 24, 2026
In 2004, Mark Miller and Ryan Arciero took refueling to another level. They fueled theirTrophyTruck ON THE MOVE at about 60 mph, with a specially built refueling boom from their chase truck. They only did it once, but it worked, no stop, better track position, and they went on to win the TrophyTruck class.
a Bill Frick Cadillac Special, in the spectator parking lot at the 1963 Sebring 12 Hr. race.
In 1955 Bill decided to build his own cars with his name on them and so shipped a Studillac chassis to Vignale carrozzaria in Italy to be styled and bodied.
In 1956 the new exotic prototype was delivered and soon appeared on the cover of Sports Car Illustrated
Sunday, August 23, 2026
interesting custom '37 Plymouth built by Mike Bowe
there are two toy sewing machines, A rotary dial toy telephone, A railroad spike, A meat grinder, An antique clothes iron, A vintage hair dryer, Two horse saddles, Rebar, An Electrolux vacuum cleaner, A Singer sewing machine, Scissors, and Two pipe wrenches
Saturday, August 22, 2026
the Bahamas Speed Week at Nassau (end of the racing season grand party) was the brainchild of a sports car racer and seaplane fleet operator Sherman “Red” Crise, who realized the abandoned Windsor Field airstrip would make a great racetrack
Crise was an interesting figure. He cut his teeth as a page at the New York Stock Exchange while studying for an aeronautical engineering degree. After graduating, he invested his NYSE earnings in a chain of three garages in New York, where he soon also gained the racing bug.
Surviving the Wall Street Crash of 1929 relatively unscathed, he went touring across Europe with an American racing team in 1930 and returned to the USA the following year to set up a seaplane base, which soon became very successful.
The racing bug was still there and Crise soon tapped into the burgeoning interest in midget racing by establishing a chain of dirt tracks, which prospered from 1938 to 1942, when the USA entered World War Two.
The racing bug was still there and Crise soon tapped into the burgeoning interest in midget racing by establishing a chain of dirt tracks, which prospered from 1938 to 1942, when the USA entered World War Two.
Crise - already a pilot - was swift to sign up and was assigned to the First Photographic Squadron, flying unarmed fighter planes on photographic missions, before transferring to Air Transport Command as a Captain.
Towards the end of the war he was forced to bale out over China and suffered a broken neck, eventually being repatriated to Miami to recuperate. From his hospital bed he then dreamed up his next venture - the Miami Beach Marine Basin - which lasted a year until being destroyed by fire.
During this period, Crise and his wife would often take yacht trips out to the Bahamas and it was during one of these visits to New Providence Island, home to the capital Nassau, that Red first spotted the open expanses of asphalt that made up the abandoned Windsor Airport. An idea soon formed in his head...
When confirmed entries were slow in coming through, Red Crise put out feelers with the local car dealers and soon there were almost 100 unofficial enquiries for starting positions.
The addition of a bike race also helped to ensure the event would have a decent chance of success and, bit by bit, a good entry was finally obtained.
In 1954, the Nassau Trophy Road Races were born on the Windsor Field circuit, with Masten Gregory taking victory in a Ferrari 375 MM. The following year it was Phil Hill’s turn, behind the wheel of the Ferrari 857 S, while in 1956 Stirling Moss triumphed in a Maserati 300S.
The track saw the greatest names of the era pass through, including Alfonso de Portago, Carroll Shelby, Dan Gurney, A.J. Foyt, brothers Pedro and Ricardo Rodriguez, and Innes Ireland, alongside cars that would go down in history: the Lotus 19, the Scarab Chevrolet, and the Chaparral 2A of Hap Sharp and Roger Penske, which dominated in 1964 and 1965.
In December 1942, the airport was named Windsor Field (after the Duke of Windsor, who had taken up regular residency on the island after abdicating as the King of the United Kingdom.) and became a Royal Air Force (RAF) station.
The OTU returned to the UK in September 1945 and was disbanded.
Invitations were sent out to the competitors of the SCCA at the end of the 1954 season, anticipating the first Speed Week from 6-12 December. When confirmed entries were slow in coming through, Red Crise put out feelers with the local car dealers and soon there were almost 100 unofficial enquiries for starting positions. The addition of a bike race also helped to ensure the event would have a decent chance of success and, bit by bit, a good entry was finally obtained. In June 1946, the RAF withdrew from Windsor Field and it reverted to civilian use.
The track saw the greatest names of the era pass through, including Alfonso de Portago, Carroll Shelby, Dan Gurney, A.J. Foyt, brothers Pedro and Ricardo Rodriguez, and Innes Ireland, alongside cars that would go down in history: the Lotus 19, the Scarab Chevrolet, and the Chaparral 2A of Hap Sharp and Roger Penske, which dominated in 1964 and 1965.
In August 1942, the British govt started a (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF at Nassau Airport to train general reconnaissance crews using the North American Mitchell and Consolidated Liberators.
(Why train in the Bahamas? Far from the European theater of war?)
In December 1942, the airport was named Windsor Field (after the Duke of Windsor, who had taken up regular residency on the island after abdicating as the King of the United Kingdom.) and became a Royal Air Force (RAF) station.
The OTU returned to the UK in September 1945 and was disbanded.
Invitations were sent out to the competitors of the SCCA at the end of the 1954 season, anticipating the first Speed Week from 6-12 December. When confirmed entries were slow in coming through, Red Crise put out feelers with the local car dealers and soon there were almost 100 unofficial enquiries for starting positions. The addition of a bike race also helped to ensure the event would have a decent chance of success and, bit by bit, a good entry was finally obtained. In June 1946, the RAF withdrew from Windsor Field and it reverted to civilian use.
In November 1957, Nassau International Airport at Windsor Field was brought into full operation.
the Maryland Vehicle Authority is cracking down on out-of-state vehicle registration, primarily targeting tens of thousands of vehicles previously registered in Maryland then switched to Virginia after losing their license in Maryland... because these drivers don't pay camera citations!
The MVA said the data showed that 28,003 vehicles previously registered in Maryland were switched to Virginia. More than 50% of those vehicles would not be eligible to register in Maryland because of indicators on their records, and nearly all were out of compliance with Virginia safety inspections.
Baltimore City officials said drivers with Virginia tags often do not pay traffic citations. About 63% of camera citations issued to vehicles with Virginia tags remain outstanding from 2025. More than 80% of camera citations issued to vehicles with Virginia tags in 2024 also remain unpaid.
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