I tried to learn something more, but nothing came up, and a lot of car makers had something similar to the base model of this.
Tuesday, April 04, 2023
the Maserati that was in the Baillon collection is getting restored at last
I photographed it a the 2016 LaJolla Concours: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2016/04/maserati-gran-sport-body-by-frua.html
and last month it went to a Vancouver restorer to be taken apart, down to the frame, and restored
It was sold at Retromobile 2014, and the owner seems to say that it's paint condition has been rapidly degrading since arriving in San Diego8 or 9 years ago.
here's a scam I haven't heard of before, renting a car, and selling it it on Craigslist
After handing over his cash (CASH?!?!), the buyer discovered the car was a rental redone with new paint, wheels, and a fake title.
Who is gullible enough to think anyone is selling a Hellcat for 28k cash?
one of the tv show cars from 'Viper" sold on Bring A Trailer for $145, this same car was listed at Mecum back in 2010, but did not get sold, even with a bid of $270,000. I bet someone still kicks themselves for missing that
interesting evolution of a hammer design, a 2x4 repositioning feature
I wonder how long guys have been thinking how nice it would be to have this feature on a hammer?
the winner of the Lowe's Richard Petty Superbird give away was discovered
John Meniefield won the Superbird from Lowe's in 1970.
Melvin Proffit (Lowe's) took the company plane to Virginia to pick up John & his wife, took them to Petty Enterprises to pick up the Superbird, and they drove it home.
The car has white interior, automatic on the column.
It was his daily driver until passing away in 2000. Four or five years later, the car was sold to a family friend.
Monday, April 03, 2023
A 1955 "Autopia" driver's license autographed by Walt Disney himself just sold at auction for $12,500
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and poof, just like that, it was gone.
Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit went public with a valuation of nearly $4 billion in December 2021.
15 months later, it is laying off 85% of its workforce, and has lost 89% of it's stock value in just 2023
Sunday, April 02, 2023
Can you believe Von Dutch pinstriped a Fiat 500?
Eric bought the Fiat in October of 1960, and it had already been pinstriped by Von Dutch by then.
there are strange things happening because of the past months of rains flowing to California. Key to this story, is the dry lakebed called Tulare Lake, now the largest freshwater lake West of the Mississippi, and the second-largest freshwater lake entirely in the United States based upon surface area
But later that night, workers with the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad unblocked the pipe, which let Allensworth flood.
The residents had used BNSF materials without permission, said Lena Kent, a railroad spokesperson.
Tulare Lake was drained for farming a century ago and is at the southern end of California’s San Joaquin Valley — and in essence, it’s a massive bowl. Before irrigators dug canals and rerouted water for farming in the late 1800s, Tulare Lake filled the bowl’s lower reaches.
In fact, aggressive groundwater pumping has caused the land to sink dramatically — it has subsided in parts of the San Joaquin Valley by as much as 28 feet, according to the U.S. Geological Survey — deepening the bowl.
Several rivers — Kings, Tule, Kern and Kaweah — historically dead-ended at the lake and replenished its water levels every spring, but farmers have diverted and rerouted
Allensworth, a historic community that in 1908 was the first settlement west of the Mississippi to be founded and governed by Black Americans.
there were a couple good April Fools gags yesterday,
Elon Musk bought a controlling interest in American Airlines https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/american-airlines-aadvantage/2117188-breaking-news-today-elon-musk-buying-majority-stake-aa.html
It's pretty good, good enough that Flyertalk.com and Flipboard.com reposted it from some site called Airline Reporter
Air North, Yukon’s Airline announced a new way of towing aircraft between its hangars and the terminal in Whitehorse. Beginning immediately, passengers waiting for their flight will notice something they’ve never seen before: aircraft towed by dog team.
Renault rebadges Nissan Frontiers built in Argentina as Navarros, and sells them in Colombia as Alaskans
they chose the name Alaskan, because it's the last frontier, says so right on the license plates
Nissan Frontier, to Alaska... the last frontier, get it? That's pretty clever
A BIG thank you to Gary, who is one of the 3 people to ever help me share the interesting cars from other parts of the world, by simply taking a handful of photos while out walking about, so the rest of us can see what ordinary commuters are like in other countries
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Cuenca is the 3rd largest city in Ecuador with a population of around 750,000 of which are approximately 10,000 North American and European expats.
It is the cultural capital of Ecuador - art, music, textiles, jewelry, and literature
It is also a world heritage site, located in a valley in the Andes mountains at an elevation of 8500 feet, 30 miles from the pacific coast.
Year round daytime temperatures ranges between 55 and 75. No snow, furnaces, or a/c.
We walk everywhere and my vehicular observations are based on that.
I’ve written all that because the result is that the only vehicular rust comes from broken paint due to accidents.
At least 3/4 the vehicles have standard transmission.
- I see maybe 2 ford f-150’s a day.
About 20% of cars are “A” size (think Chevy Spark.)
- Stillantis has a good presence with Peugeot and Citroen brands
Chevrolet has a ton of D-Max smallish 4 door pickups and seems to dominate that segment. A lot of Aveo’s cars here too
I see about 3 of the 1970’s miniature pickups a day.
Misc:
I’ve seen maybe two Mercedes Benz a week, one each Tesla and BMW.
-Also saw an either Land Cruiser or Land Rover stake truck in a neighboring town and the rear of another original Mini as it zipped down the street from our apartment.
Now the bad news: about 15% of the new vehicles are Chinese- mainly pick-up trucks and SUV’s. Many brands, mostly all ICE power. An Ecuadorian friend who just bought a Citroen said people are buying Chinese because they are cheaper but they depreciate quickly and the quality is less than the competition.
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thank you Gary!
about a dozen years ago, I had a girlfriend that could afford to vacation in Jamaica, for the diving, and she sprung to pay for me to vacation with her, and I was fascinated by the cars and mini vans that are not found in the USA at all.
I am intrigued by the variety of the way different countries arrive at the same goal, daily drivers, but from different ways, which I will suppose are subjected to importing, tariffs, taxes based on the size and cost of the vehicles (Europe had that high tax on 4 wheel vehicles that prompted the manufacturing of Piaggo Apes, Morgan 3 wheelers, Isettas, and other motorcycle engine powered cycle cars) and not having the high level of federal crash safety testing etc.
Darryl in Australia sent me a LOT of terrific photos, dozens of them, of all the late 60s and early 70s Australian cars that are interesting, and Nik in Brazil shared a lot of Brazilian cars and trucks. I can't recall the nice guys in Budapest by name, but they had a cool website that shared a lot too.
Darryl in Australia sent me a LOT of terrific photos, dozens of them, of all the late 60s and early 70s Australian cars that are interesting, and Nik in Brazil shared a lot of Brazilian cars and trucks. I can't recall the nice guys in Budapest by name, but they had a cool website that shared a lot too.
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