Friday, June 05, 2015
Something new in trailers, by IPD
Skip the first 3 minutes 25 seconds of garbage, then you get some info about the trailer, and done by 4:35
Hot Rod Magazine just posted about a scrap yard, loaded with pre 70 Mopars in Northern California
Big M Auto is located in Williams California, about 60 miles north of Sacramento and 100 miles south of Redding, of I 5
http://www.bigmauto.com/
http://www.hotrod.com/features/1505-big-ms-treasure-trove/
Reasons to check out a car before you buy it...
Someone forgets to install the gas cap, and you find it in the cab, not the behind the fueling access flap
For no known reason, there is a dull spot on this trunk lid.
Update to March 16th LAPD officer committing murder while off duty, he was caught by the Mexican police
http://news.yahoo.com/former-los-angeles-policeman-caught-mexico-charged-murder-190732527.html
Henry Solis, 27, was arrested Tuesday May 26th in Ciudad Juarez, just across the border from El Paso, Texas, and turned over to the FBI and U.S. Marshals on a murder warrant and was brought to California from Texas on Thursday and booked into jail in Pomona, California.
Henry Solis worked in the Devonshire Division of the San Fernando Valley, where he rode with a training officer.
The FBI said Solis is a veteran of the Marines aircraft maintenance technician and security guard. Marine Corps records say Solis served in Iraq from April to November 2007.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/26/us/lapd-officer-henry-solis-homicide-suspect/
Henry Solis, 27, was arrested Tuesday May 26th in Ciudad Juarez, just across the border from El Paso, Texas, and turned over to the FBI and U.S. Marshals on a murder warrant and was brought to California from Texas on Thursday and booked into jail in Pomona, California.
Henry Solis worked in the Devonshire Division of the San Fernando Valley, where he rode with a training officer.
The FBI said Solis is a veteran of the Marines aircraft maintenance technician and security guard. Marine Corps records say Solis served in Iraq from April to November 2007.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/26/us/lapd-officer-henry-solis-homicide-suspect/
How in the world?
Not swinging wide around high curbs and big boulders is my guess
Found on https://www.facebook.com/Truckdriverwtfmoments?fref=photo
Thursday, June 04, 2015
Uh oh, some one pulled a fast one. Carroll Shelby. Looks like a lot of shenanigans and illegal stuff were hidden about the 65 Cobra production so Ferrari could be attacked on the track
The set up:
Ford wanted Ferrari taken down a couple pegs
Shelby was a known contender for the title
The problem: 100 cars had to be built to get the FIA cert so it was legal for 1966 competition. They weren't.
Here comes the dirt!
In the present day, 50 years later, the Carroll Shelby Trust announced that they will finish what the old master started — building the remaining 1965 Cobra 427 S/Cs to be sold to the public as track-only race cars, three years after Shelby's death.
Back in 1965, Shelby completed 53 of the proposed 100 Cobra 427 S/Cs required to comply with FIA GT rules that stated all manufacturers must produce at least 100.
In 1988 Shelby decided to resurrect the remaining ‘65 427 S/Cs — primarily because he knew it would reap large profits, and restart his legacy that had faded through lousy GT500s rebadged as 1970s because they didn't sell in 1969, Turbo 4 cylinder Mopars, van kit conversions for GM, and the Dakota mid size truck.
Five ‘65 427 S/Cs were built and sold between 1990 and 1992, all with original 1965 titles.
Shelby had been quoted as saying the cars derived from old AC chassis he had kept in storage since 1965, but had lost the original titles. According to a Los Angeles Times report from 1993, this claim helped him secure duplicate titles from the DMV — but it later emerged that the chassis were in fact built by McCluskey Ltd. in 1991 and ‘92, with only the motor and transmission being original from 1965.
Shelby later backtracked, admitting that McCluskey did in fact build the chassis — said to be an exact AC replica, even duplicating the coarse welds and saw cuts to perfection — but responded by saying, “If I said they were 1965 chassis or if I inferred it, it meant that they were built in the ‘60s and I was using '65 engines which means that they are '65 cars if I so choose to say so."
Shelby reportedly asked Angliss to build the chassis for the then-new 427 S/Cs in 1988 and ship them to the U.S. labelled as “washing machine parts.” Shelby planned to let the cars rust in the rain for a while and then claim he had stored them since 1965. “It is perfectly legal for me to build a new car today and register it and sell it as a '65,” he said.
The new Cobra 427 S/Cs being built in 2015 will have a CSX VIN and badge number originally assigned in 1965. The MSO and title documents were all signed by Carroll Shelby himself, and the cars will only be track legal.
Like the revived Cobras from the ‘80s and ‘90s, these Cobras will be sold as zero miles, newly-made 1965 models. Except, they aren't.
https://www.yahoo.com/autos/even-death-cant-stop-carroll-shelby-from-selling-118800132277.html
Ford wanted Ferrari taken down a couple pegs
Shelby was a known contender for the title
The problem: 100 cars had to be built to get the FIA cert so it was legal for 1966 competition. They weren't.
Here comes the dirt!
In the present day, 50 years later, the Carroll Shelby Trust announced that they will finish what the old master started — building the remaining 1965 Cobra 427 S/Cs to be sold to the public as track-only race cars, three years after Shelby's death.
Back in 1965, Shelby completed 53 of the proposed 100 Cobra 427 S/Cs required to comply with FIA GT rules that stated all manufacturers must produce at least 100.
In 1988 Shelby decided to resurrect the remaining ‘65 427 S/Cs — primarily because he knew it would reap large profits, and restart his legacy that had faded through lousy GT500s rebadged as 1970s because they didn't sell in 1969, Turbo 4 cylinder Mopars, van kit conversions for GM, and the Dakota mid size truck.
Five ‘65 427 S/Cs were built and sold between 1990 and 1992, all with original 1965 titles.
Shelby had been quoted as saying the cars derived from old AC chassis he had kept in storage since 1965, but had lost the original titles. According to a Los Angeles Times report from 1993, this claim helped him secure duplicate titles from the DMV — but it later emerged that the chassis were in fact built by McCluskey Ltd. in 1991 and ‘92, with only the motor and transmission being original from 1965.
Shelby later backtracked, admitting that McCluskey did in fact build the chassis — said to be an exact AC replica, even duplicating the coarse welds and saw cuts to perfection — but responded by saying, “If I said they were 1965 chassis or if I inferred it, it meant that they were built in the ‘60s and I was using '65 engines which means that they are '65 cars if I so choose to say so."
Shelby reportedly asked Angliss to build the chassis for the then-new 427 S/Cs in 1988 and ship them to the U.S. labelled as “washing machine parts.” Shelby planned to let the cars rust in the rain for a while and then claim he had stored them since 1965. “It is perfectly legal for me to build a new car today and register it and sell it as a '65,” he said.
The new Cobra 427 S/Cs being built in 2015 will have a CSX VIN and badge number originally assigned in 1965. The MSO and title documents were all signed by Carroll Shelby himself, and the cars will only be track legal.
Like the revived Cobras from the ‘80s and ‘90s, these Cobras will be sold as zero miles, newly-made 1965 models. Except, they aren't.
https://www.yahoo.com/autos/even-death-cant-stop-carroll-shelby-from-selling-118800132277.html
A local news crew did a couple minute piece on the Sandbar Mitchell B 25 restoration project
http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/world-war-ii-bomber-being-brought-back-to-life/33378680
There is a fundraiser Thursday, June 4, at 7 p.m. at the Brighton Center for the Performing Arts.
http://www.warbirdsofglory.org/index.html
Wednesday, June 03, 2015
a 1969,70, and 71 Super Car Clinic I just learned of, John Petrie and his dream set of hemi Mopars focused on Canadian Mopar dealerships, a Bee, GTX, Barracudas, Challengers, Duster and Demon
In the U.S. the clinics were being conducted by well known drag racers, but because American press is so damn MYOPIC, they didn't see what else was going on around the continent unless someone named Don was going to be racing there.
The U.S. Plymouth division had SOX and Martin of North Carolina.
Don Grotheer of Oklahoma represented the Plymouth line of performance cars.
The U.S. Dodge division had Dick Landy from California.
Bill Tanner of Georgia to represent the Dodge line of performance cars.
The success of these performance clinics were remarkable for their time.
In 1970, he ran a full racing schedule and made 66 clinics.
The Duster was converted to look like a Demon for the 1971 year, and a 71 Barracuda was over acid dipped by accident
The for sale ad found on https://www.facebook.com/groups/VintageMoparDrag/
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