When cars didn't move fast enough for a solid flat front to affect aerodynamics

 

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10225513644728506&set=pcb.10225513651288670

Happy 402 day! Beginning in 1970, all of the 396 badge engines were actually 402 inches as Chevy decided not to mess with the wildly popular "396" moniker that was now as popular as the 409

https://www.jacksonville.com/story/special/2018/05/21/cars-we-remember-big-block-396-chevy-engines-and-mystery-engine-confusion-finally-solved/12173997007/

work is delayed until the kitties naps are completed

https://www.tumblr.com/armengoldira/746555532228296704?source=share

firefighter helmets compared

 https://www.tumblr.com/armengoldira/746580563484459008?source=share

Optima has the worst PR, I swear. You never hear about what they've sponsored, or what's to come. Ever heard of the Battle of Soggy Dry Lake? Me neither, and it's happened twice

Happy 401 day!

Today would be a great day to have an April Fools Day gag.. but I haven't thought of any.

BMW used to do the best gags: https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2017/04/bmw-had-fun-april-fools-day-gag-for-dog.html

https://www.bmwblog.com/2024/04/01/bmw-cleaning-suit-april-fools-day/

https://hoaxes.org/af_database/display/category/bmw

though it's hard to top the bathtub in the Chicago River gag https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2023/04/though-no-one-mentioned-my-april-fools.html

Liam Neeson ran a forklift after university, when he used to work at the Guinness bottling plant that used to operate in Ballymena.

Neeson said: "I loved it - it was a great job actually. My job was when the cases of Guinness came down, someone was stacking them on a palette, once they were stacked my forks would go in and lift them. Either load the lorry or stack them where they needed to be."

https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/whats-on/film-news/liam-neeson-reveals-particular-set-26490286

seen in Friday rush hour, must have been driven to work!

humor has a wonderful way of making things clear

https://www.tumblr.com/katyperrykilled3nuns

Bill Watterson was extremely gifted in art, and humor, and the ability to make one little kid often laugh out loud funny, but his perceptive way of writing was very overlooked, I feel.

a gravel truck I spotted in traffic

 

that front tire has a lot more angle than the back one... somethings been worn out and not replaced on this old Ranger

There's an unusual number of early Rancheros around town, this one hasn't moved in years though... it's on one of those few streets the cops don't ticket and the street sweepers never bother with.

WASP and instructor in front of a Republic P-47 (thanks Jack S!)

https://www.tumblr.com/usaac-official/746482948276191232?source=share

anyone else notice she's been pranked by being given something to hold something that says "do not remove from airplane"?

Brad Pitt had a role in a 1991 movie, Cool World, where his character drove a chopped 49 Merc.

 

https://www.imcdb.org/movie_104009-Cool-World.html

Car thieves in Long Beach worked as a 3 man team, one with a gun pointed at the house front door, one trying to steal the car, and one as a get away driver

 https://ktla.com/news/local-news/camaro-thieves-in-california-thwarted-by-mans-anti-theft-device/

possibly the same guys busted in the next story

Police in California raided a "chop shop" and recovered more than $600,000 worth of Chevy Camaros, Corvettes

Investigators also located a large amount of stolen vehicle parts (doors, seats, hoods, etc) and a stolen vehicle engine on the property. The stolen vehicles/parts were determined to have been reported by numerous law enforcement agencies from San Joaquin County, Alameda County, San Francisco County, Yolo County, and Stanislaus County.

According to the CHP, 202,802 vehicles worth over $1.8 billion were stolen in California in 2023. Last year a vehicle was stolen at a rate of one every 2 minutes and 36 seconds. The most commonly stolen cars were the 2015 Kia Optima and 2000 Honda Civic.

https://www.facebook.com/CHPTracy/posts/pfbid026cT3n1ZAHPkjEnnTiLy8Vjcj8AzXAjJbowrA8tvMeRNy5cKGA3MjbETgmLQ4zXCAl?ref=embed_post

https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a60311230/corvette-camaro-chop-shop-raided/

A roughly 1.4-mile stretch of California's famed Highway 1 between Big Sur and Carmel-by-the-Sea closed Saturday after yet another landslide that the Cal Trans didn't see coming, that could have been prevented with an excavator at work for a day

That slide happened 10 days after access to the south, in northern San Luis Obispo County, was cut off due to a slide on Jan. 4 at a location known as Polar Star, about a mile south of Ragged Point. 

In between those two slides, creating an "island," there was another major slide at Mill Creek, at mile marker 18.

Estimated reopening time (for one-way traffic): three to four weeks.

https://www.montereycountyweekly.com/blogs/news_blog/closures-on-highway-1-mean-the-south-coast-of-big-sur-is-an-island-reliant/article_25b49d2c-9d0c-11ed-86d7-ffeaf10b4d58.html

last years enormous landslide still isn't cleared and the highway isn't going back to normal anytime soon https://www.ksbw.com/article/work-continues-reopen-three-parts-highway-1-big-sur-california/60333802 

the banners from March

 

the major car manufacturers also sell oil, and of course, recommend it as what your car needs. Their oils were compared and tested, and Mobil 1 was included in the test.

https://fordauthority.com/2024/03/ford-motorcraft-synthetic-oil-beats-key-rivals-video/