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In contrast to Petrolicious, Just A Car Guy is a much more low-tech, personal blog about “things with wheels that are cool.” Reading Jesse’s stuff is just like talking cars with your friends … only this conversation stretches back ten years. There are more than 24,000 posts here if you’re feeling ambitious.
above show how close it was to his head, but it really slammed his hand hard into his plane
Skip the first 20 seconds if you want... the pilot merely learns that his plane engine has a problem, and signals the safety crew that he is DOA... then the stupid bastard behind him doesn't bother noticing the AIRPLANE HE IS GOING TO RUN INTO. Always have a rearview mirrow!
Half the car is cleaned but not restored, while the other is in as-found condition.
Corrado Lopresto treated the Alfa as a work of art, saving as much as possible of the amazingly well-preserved original. But he also decided to clean only half the car, leaving the other half frozen in time. In the uncleaned half, Lopresto preserved everything (including the dust) under a thin layer of transparent matte lacquer.
Reportedly the first unrestored car allowed on the green at Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este, the Alfa displayed a clear dividing line from its heart-shaped grille to its Kamm tail, leaving half of the car left just as Lopresto found the car in California.
May 31, 1986 the fifteenth special stage of the ADAC-Rally Hessen At 20:34 the Ford RS200 driven by Marc Surer ran wide on a fast right hander. It spun on the grassy verges of the road and hit a tree broadside near the engine compartment at a speed estimated to be around 200 km/h. The car sheered this tree in half and continued to slide over the grass until it it a larger tree just behind its b-column. The Ford exploded in a great ball of fire and broke in two parts. Surer’s co-driver Michel Wyder was killed instantly. Surer was ejected from the car. He suffered multiple fractures, serious burns and other injuries.
the windshield, being flexible, seems to be a recent creation... but would they allow it at the Pebble Beach Concours? I doubt it. But nothing was mentioned about it, because Murphy's Law realized it was the only thing I wanted to know
In the 1930s, there were a select few who saw the value in saving early cars. Among these early collectors such as Barney Pollard, George Waterman and Glen Gould, was Albert and Salvator Garganigo.
According to the Princeton Historical Society (Princeton, MA), the brothers ran the Turnpike Garage and Auto Wrecking Company in Shrewsbury, MA in the late 1920s. Located on Rt 9, the main thoroughfare between Boston and Worcester, the brothers witnessed car styles changing rapidly.
In 1935, they opened a "Horseless Carriage Exhibit" at their gas station in Worcester. They soon realized that more space was needed and purchased a WWI prison camp that was schedule to be torn down. In 1938, with their museum space established in Princeton, MA, they opened the doors of their "Museum of Antique Autos" - displaying 75 cars.
Over the years, they would add more building and more cars (close to 200 total) until the museum closed in 1963. The collection was auctioned off in 1973 with many pieces going to Gene Zimmerman and then on to Winthrop Rockefeller. http://vintagemotoring.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-princeton-auto-museum.html
One of 9 mobile command and fire chief vehicles made to export to Lisbon.
A fire engine Mercedes designed by Porsche for fire fighting... that's incredibly 1st rate obscure, it must be a trivia answer.
It was commissioner Schänker of the Frankfurt fire brigade, who in 1928 performed the first groundbreaking tests with lightweight designs. He had started out by converting an existing vehicle of the Frankfurt professional fire brigade and in 1930 had the superstructures for three new chassis completely made of light alloy. He had opted for the Mercedes-Benz low-floor chassis complete with light-alloy engine hood and fenders. The vehicles created in this way were a fire engine, a carrier for a 24 meter long turntable ladder from Metz, and a hose carrier.
Schänker’s efforts were prompted by the severe vibrations which were caused by heavy-duty fire-fighting vehicles with solid rubber tires at the time.
Daimler-Benz received another large-scale order in 1929. The Portuguese capital Lisbon ordered 26 fire-fighting vehicles due to Lisbon’s topography and the resulting difficulties in obtaining water.
This also applied to the nine mobile command and fire chief vehicles which were based on the elegant Nürburg sportscar. Each carried a 350 liter water tank, 100 meters of pressure hose and a Metz pump that delivered 600 liters of water per minute up to a height of 80 meters.
It was repaired by the men of the 86th Fighter Squadron and flown from Italy to Wright Field in 1944 by 86th Fighter Squadron Comanche pilots.
This Junkers Ju 88 not only wears USAAF markings, it wears a fighter squadron’s nose art. It appeared in war bond drives, and was finally returned to Wright Field in the summer of 1945 after being superficially damaged in Los Angeles. It finally went to Freeman Army Air Field, Indiana and was eventually scrapped.
It took this long to find and determine this was Elvis' car, because no one was sure of the chassis number
The BMW 507 is one of the rarest models the company has ever made – just 252 units were made in total.
It wasn’t until American journalist Jackie Jouret of Bimmer Magazine uncovered evidence that Elvis had bought the car raced in hillclimbs in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, a white BMW 507 with chassis number 70079.
As it happens, Elvis had loved his 507 so much he had it shipped back to the USA upon completion of his military service – although he quickly found it unsuitable for American roads and sold it.
It ended up in a car collection, and that person sold it to BMW on the condition that they restore it perfectly and retain the Hans Stuck heritage as well as the Elvis legacy.
When made, the car went straight from the factory to the Frankfurt auto show, but not to BMW’s show stand. Instead, it remained outside the hall, demonstrating the 507’s performance. It continued in that role once the show was over, driven by Hans Stuck, and by journalists for reviews. Stuck also raced it in a few hillclimbs winning the GT class at Rossfeld, at Schauinsland, and at Ollon-Villars in 1958.
After its time as a factory demonstrator/race car it was delivered to Autohaus Wirth in Frankfurt. Eight days later, Elvis Presley took it for a test drive, which proved satisfactory enough that the car became his before the end of 1958.
it focuses it's perspective on the Cossacks and the Bandidos, while no boyscouts, and their clash over the "Texas" rocker argument. A matter I don't give a shit about. It's theme is that this was a shootout between biker gangs, not bikers shot and killed by cops.
It's strange to read this view of a police vs biker massacre which doesn't ask why police were surrounding a restaurant meeting, with SWAT and lots of markmen sharpshooters who aimed for the head (Correct me if I'm wrong, but 2 bullets center mass and re-evaluate... ain't that the police procedure far and wide? Supposedly?) and murdered and injured with furious shooting without a care for collateral injuries to restaurant staff. (bullets have a habit of going through windows and walls)
Read for yourself, let me know if you think it's extremely strange way to tell the facts (it's a news organization) about a slaughter, when it's 90% about the patches, and never mentions the # of dead.
However, over at AgingRebel.com, the details were found about some of the shooters. So far, Waco Swat has been given a pass, and though having killed at least 4 of the 9, aren't even going to be seeing the inside of a court room.
192 people who are not police officers will face prosecution, cops who killed won't.
A different aspect... the seizure of the bikes and vehicles...
" in the days after the arrests scores of vehicles were impounded, Most of them were released within a month, often because the people who drove or rode them to the restaurant that day didn’t have clear title to them.
“I received a 2007 Harley Davidson motorcycle for possible forfeiture involving this case at Twin Peaks,” a Waco cop named Vincent Glenn wrote in June. “During my investigation, I discovered the motorcycle has a lien on it. I confirmed the validity of the lien through the lien holder, Unity One Credit Union. I released the vehicle on 6-10-15."
Four hundred eighty-five days after the event, Waco police are still holding 16 motorcycles and 10 trucks seized from people who have never been proven to have committed any crime."
in the late 1950s, they belonged to Nickey Chevrolet of Chicago and in a stroke of marketing genius, they were painted metallic purple and named after the hit novelty song “The Purple People Eater”
The Purple People Eater you see here was the third and final car to wear the eye-catching color, it’s also the car that won the 1959 SCCA B-Production Championship with the talented combination of driver Jim Jeffords and mechanic Ronnie Kaplan.
But in 1974 at the Carlisle swap meet friends Ken Heckert and Chip Miller pooled their leftover money and bought the car for the bargained-down price of just $800.
The two men autocrossed the Corvette for a little while and it eventually found its way into the inglorious position of being the lunch table in an body shop for 14 years – before a keen eyed patron identified the car as the iconic 1959 Championship winning Purple People Eater.
this time-warp 25th Anniversary example has never been driven since the owner took delivery back in 1990.
The mere 116 miles displayed on the odometer is the result of testing at the factory, before it was delivered to the climate-controlled environment in which it has remained ever since.
It’s no doubt the closest anyone will come to the experience of owning a brand-new example of arguably Lamborghini’s most memorable supercar.
That iconic rear wing was purely cosmetic. The Countach actually suffers front axle lift at high speed, and bolting a park bench out back only exacerbates the issue. But customers loved the look, so engineers zeroed out the wing’s angle, rendering it nonfunctional. Designed as a one-off for F1 impresario Walter Wolf, the spoiler wasn’t an official option, either.
Once it caught on, circa 1976, Lamborghini couldn’t afford to re-homologate the car with a new aero appendage. As a workaround, completed cars were pulled off the assembly line and into the factory parking lot, where employees installed the rear wing—using an electric hand drill—while awaiting dealer transport. The job took about 10 minutes.
originally a 1924ish (?) Oldsmobile. A farm worker built himself a carpenters van some where around the late fourties or early fifties.
The guy who ownes it doesnt want to be bothered and so it still sits as you see it now.
It shows some real skills and vision. Look at the windscreen opening, Looks military aircraft. Timber frame, sheet metal skins. The original front fenders are still in place creating inner fenders and support for the new front end. Suicide doors, which have a late 40's Dodge look.
A couple of guys stumbled upon it on a farm in 2011. And thats about all that is known about it.
