Friday, December 18, 2015
Thursday, December 17, 2015
This cool husband surprised his wife with the rv trailer she'd grown up traveling around America in with her family, it took a lot of tracking down to find it
Her dad had been a great guy, and wanted his kids to see America's landmarks, and spend a lot of time with his kids camping, so he bought this trailer, and it made a huge impression on his daughter... how mentioned it enough, that her husband knew it would be the coolest ever thing to get her.
Her dad died in a traffic collision, and since camping was out of the question, it was passed along to other family members that could use it, but eventually it was sold off to strangers and went from Arkansas to California.... and now it's back, even though the new owners had fixed and repaired it... because they too, had lost a dad too early, and knew what it meant to reconnect this trailer with the daughter or the original owner.
Her husband had it trucked back, and hid it at his work, after 2 month of trying to find it... then surprised his wife with it.
https://gma.yahoo.com/man-surprises-wife-her-fathers-beloved-camper-15-223042533--abc-news-house-and-home.html
Tom Cotter found some Cobras in barns, but never a Panzer Panther in a basement!
Last seen 37 years ago, and never since, the Panther was suspected of being in the possession of a certain military relic collector, but they didn't know, nor did they suspect he had torpedos. Yes, he did.
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/ww2-panther-tank-recovered-from-a-cellar.html
"When a Kiel prosecutor suspected the existence of war relics in a villa in the town of Heikendrof, the only way to find out was the police raid. Possession of war relics, or weaponry is banned in Germany and is a prosecutable offence. The raiding party and prosecutors were in awe to find a fully intact panther tank in the underground garage as well as a number of other weapons from the Nazi era."
Jensen FFF 100, built in 1972 by GKN powered by a Keith Black 426 hemi.
this is the car that held the record for the 0-100-0 in 11.5 seconds, a record it held from 1972 until the McLaren F1 was made.
https://autoweek.com/article/car-life/ultimate-jensen-interceptor
http://www.british-steel.org/brochure/ff/ff.htm
https://www.facebook.com/groups/321577158048111/?fref=nf
5.5 months to figure out how to attend this incredible event, Brazzeltag!
See more about the Technik Museum Speyer at http://speyer.technik-museum.de/
See more about Brazzeltag at http://brazzeltag.de/
See photos of the 2015 Brazzeltag at https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.921527871203218.1073741923.129372047085475&type=3
Velodrome d'Hiver, Paris, 1911
imagine what it would be like to be so excited to watch motorcycles race, for the first time ever, on an indoor board track, at the beginning of the motor age.
But this isn't a bunch of motorcycles for racing, as NZ Carnerd pointed out:
They are cycle pacing machines. Note the style of the handlebars which keep the rider upright so he can provide a 'windshield' for the following cyclist.
The Velodrome d'Hiver (literally Winter Velodrome) and 'motor-paced racing' both have wiki pages.
Note the bikes have 'buckets' under the engines so that they don't drop oil on the wooden track, and the bikes have flat belt drive. A Google image search for 'pacing motorcycle' yields many interesting pictures but none I saw had the 'buckets' under the engines like those here.
Found on https://www.facebook.com/groups/654324954604252/
Brian at Bangshift found a 1929 Hudson in a junkyard... the instrument panel is the give away clue
above is the one they found in the wild (rat rodders would be going crazy for this)
and here is one I photographed in the Elbert Hall Motorcycle 1929 Hudson at Viva Las Vegas a few years ago
http://bangshift.com/general-news/can-you-identify-this-weird-old-engine-we-found-st-gates-salvage-we-couldnt/
the desire to build a vehicle people have not seen before, that is interesting, but not abbhorent, and cool, is getting into some esoteric stretches of defining "vehicle" . Consider this 1935 Autocar cab
Found on https://www.facebook.com/groups/321577158048111/?fref=nf
built by Gary Fisher and the Resurrected Rust Garage, and winner of the 2015 Rat Rod Magazine national build off
http://www.hoodrivernews.com/photos/2015/sep/30/50967/
https://www.facebook.com/gary.fisher.90?fref=ufi
Portland roadster show
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