I bet this is the right ride for an off road rally, found on the Rallye Breslau 2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8BYCwVMz40

A vehicle covered in leather by a book binder in South London, It belongs to Rooks Books who bind leather books. There are even rooks on the hub caps! Thank you Andy!

ever heard of the Viking Special Dodge truck?

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10233412938321718&set=pcb.10233412941321793

and now for something different, sign language graffiti

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=883705844790122&set=gm.37260734906873921&idorvanity=889066631134208

building made out of SP boxcars in Truckee, CA back in Sept 2007

https://www.facebook.com/groups/350648048350702/permalink/27395339086788232

Deep below the streets of Jersey City, NJ Transit trains rumble back and forth through the Bergen Tunnels to and from Hoboken Terminal.

The 4,200-foot long tunnels cut through Bergen Hill, the southernmost end of the Hudson Palisades. 

The northern tunnel was built from 1873-1877 by the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, with the southern tunnel opening in 1910. 

Partway through the tunnels are two large open-cut ventilation shafts, which also feature emergency exit staircases and standpipes for firefighting. 

At left is an older ventilation shaft, one of five that date back to the construction of the tunnels.

These were stabilized and backfilled during the 2001 renovation of the tunnels. In this view, GP40PH-2B no. 4208, the railroad's Conrail heritage unit - identifiable by its blue color, rather than the black roof of nearly every other NJT locomotive - is seen shoving non-revenue train X132 through the north tunnel on Track 1. Taken June 12, 2025.

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=122334130220204072&set=a.122094473684204072

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=9356076527787043&set=gm.1900450054149829&idorvanity=1551158072412364

a tractor driven road roller...

a farmer in Marietta, Ohio, had this Holt 5-Ton crawler tractor he sold to a collector, and it turns out to have been subcontracted to Maxwell to build. It took the collector 4 years just to source the correct armor plating

the Holt 5-Ton was in high demand in World War I for towing artillery. The Holt Manufacturing Company, which later merged in 1925 with the C.L. Best Tractor Company to form the Caterpillar Tractor Co., couldn’t keep up with the demand.

So Holt contracted with the Maxwell Motor Company and other manufacturers to help meet supply for the “Artillery Tractor 5-ton Model 1917,” as Holt called them.

Before all the orders could be filled, however, the war ended November 11, 1918. Holt, Maxwell and the other manufacturers were left with surplus tractors that never made it “Over There,” but some remained in service through the 1920s and others were converted to civilian use on the farm.

Bowers got interested in restoring antique equipment from his father, Howard Bowers Sr., who started the family’s heavy hauling business in 1948 in Wintersville.

At 84, Bowers Jr. is retired, but the fourth generation of the family has joined Howard L. Bowers Contracting. And Bowers still goes in every day to his own special spot on the company’s property where his father used to work on old machines.

“I got what they call a ‘toy shop’ where I work on these antique tractors,” he says. “This is my ‘golf course’ over here in my own shop.”

https://www.equipmentworld.com/vintage-equipment/article/15825717/1918-holt-5ton-artillery-tractor-built-for-wwi-rescued-restored

Ever heard of the concept car, the 1969 Fairlane Machette? A prototype

A modified version of the 1968 Fairlane Torino GT Fastback, the show car was created at the Ford Design Center in Dearborn, Mich. 

It has a special two-tone "pearlescent" white and silver finish. 

The unusual grille features twin horizontal black air scoops. Headlamps are concealed behind electrically operated doors. 

Roof pillars have been widened to provide additional privacy for rear seat passengers. 

Machete's taillights are flush with the lower portion of the deck panel, and concealed by white coated lenses. With light off, the taillamps are hidden, blending smoothly into the white rear panel.

It was based on the Torino, not the Fairlane, and actually was a '68 that had debuted as early as December 1967.

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1413815327441873&set=a.556433073180107

https://www.story-cars.com/1968-ford-torino-machete-concept

I have no idea what this can be used for, but it's intriguing, and is just wheels interacting with wheels, basically a gear multiplication

 

cool and unusual railcar from Nov 1958 was still in use in 1996

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=969688582273543&set=pcb.853453680387867

interesting dealership give away... in 1958 Ford dealerships would give away a portable charcoal grill when they sold a nine passenger County Squire wagon as a sales promotion.

Ford used the same metal stamping for the grill pan that they used to make that big carb air-filter body. The bag of Kingsford charcoal showed a red oval within a Ford blue background

https://www.hagerty.com/media/maintenance-and-tech/3-strange-but-useful-vintage-car-options/comment-page-2/#comments

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Country_Squire#/media/File:1957_Ford_Country_Squire_black_wagon.jpg

Railroad Age Gazette 1912.

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10233495500394323&set=gm.3541699795962153&idorvanity=410016829130481

a unique rumble seat design on a 1926 Rolls, that I've never seen before; a two panel seat, where one lifts up for the seat back, and the panel between that and the cabin, pivots upside down to be the seat of the ruble seat, and seat arms.

see the video at https://www.facebook.com/reel/956771107095327

1950 Willys-Overland Alcoa Coupé Prototype (thank you George!)

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10161284391009870&set=pcb.7552829028150805

Cool looking tach popped up on facebook's Vintage Moroso

I haven't seen anything by the PI brand before, but, compared to an RAC it's a dead ringer. 

PI must have licensed the tachs

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=891377060599638&set=gm.4626799294263979&idorvanity=2695731877370740

ever hear of a fold down back seat for a 67, 68 and 69 Camaro? I hadn't until now

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10174069405735297&set=p.10174069405735297&type=3