Vintage Automotive: January 2016

Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Kyle posted his dad's Super Bee on Facebook today, it's the same colors as my R/T, except it has stock rims instead of Magnum 500's

full gallery at https://www.facebook.com/airgrabber70gtx/media_set?set=a.10150967167015598.409284.673490597&type=3

I find it remarkable to have never seen another 1969 Coronet exactly like mine until now, after 12 years of ownership. I found it impossible until now to see what it will look like with stock rims and dog dish hubcaps.
Found on https://www.facebook.com/airgrabber70gtx?fref=nf
2 minor differences of the exterior, are his mud flaps, and lack of the optional rocker panel aluminum trim pieces

This is mine, full gallery at http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2013/12/for-my-new-job-i-was-tasked-with.html

law enforcement can be such assholes when parking in handicapped spots

Found on http://stunningpicture.tumblr.com/

According to the caption, the lazy cop said "cut me some slack" and drove off

the poll results of the top off road trails and parks

click on for full size, or click the link

the 2015 update is now completed http://www.partcatalog.com/blog/2014-top-off-road-trails-in-america/

Some time you have to be explicit with your sign to get the point across

Found on http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2014/08/people-wilil-still-climb-over-this-sign.html

some 17 yr old, I can only guess, went post it note crazy... on her parents car

Found on http://stunningpicture.tumblr.com/

The first radial engine truck? First pickup truck I can recall seeing a radial in

found on https://www.facebook.com/pages/C10-Trucks and http://www.c10-trucks.com/plane-engine-68-c10.html

Helpful sign on Asphalt machine. This needs to be placed on more equipment…

Found on http://stunningpicture.tumblr.com/

Sunday, January 10, 2016

designed in the end of the 1950's built in the early 1960's and still are about the most high tech, and extreme condition aircraft ever made.. the A-12 Roadrunner Squadron

Storm Bringer sent me the photo from the website http://lavisionrealdelmundo.blogspot.com/2012/05/area-51-dreamland-det-3-afftc-lo-que.html#! which gives the history of Area 51, and Groom Lake, and of course, the special aircraft that were stationed there

Hellboy has an old truck in his bedroom, might be a chair for him, or a bed for Liz, but the cats love it

Above the 1st movie, below, Hellboy 2, The Golden Army

I couldn't find any photos online though

who tows a boat with a Porsche? That's ridiculous! (Image captioned San Juan 1973 Porsche 914)

Found on http://zona-rapida.blogspot.com.es/2014/08/fotografia-la-playa.html

great art, on the cover of Life Magazine, Jan 4th 1912.

reel lawn mowers, vintage and pinstriped. That's all I need to post a cool image

I was a kid and used my aunts once... about ok as far as getting the grass cut... but kinda cool in the pure mechanical fashion of not having any engine

Photo found on http://reellawnmower.com/chronicle.html via https://www.facebook.com/LAGTMagazine?fref=nf

Did you know that the horse power lawn mower was first produced in 1842?

Sunday, January 3, 2016

everything is cooler with the Flying Tigers shark teeth

found on https://www.facebook.com/groups/youngdriver/

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BMW has lost its mind

“Is the engine noise coming from the speakers?” Agonizingly, yes. The M3/M4’s interior sound comes courtesy of special effects.
When pressed, BMW engineers reluctantly explain that the sound doesn’t come from a pre-recorded soundtrack or an engine-mounted microphone. Instead, a sensor analyzes what the engine should sound like according to rpm and load. Then, it uses a “synthesizer” to replicate that sound and pipes it through the speakers.
Like the digitally rendered humans in the movie The Polar Express, you immediately know something is off—and that particular something is creepy. Also off-putting is the character of the synthesized engine noise, which sounds like a bass-heavy V-8 rather than the sharp rasp of an inline six. Onlookers outside the car are treated to blats of real, raucous inline-six sound as the exhaust flaps kick rudely open. Turns out they’re the lucky ones.

Found on http://www.automobilemag.com/reviews/driven/1405-2015-bmw-m3-m4-review/ from the Sept 2014 issue of Automobile magazine

How to spot a fun guy in a magazine's staff photo

One guess which one isn't pretentious. The "most influential automotive journalist" you've never heard of, (long pause for effect to complement the overly pretentious image of odd looking duck with a scarf) or the designer / writer by accident, or the lawyer and rock band manager too cool to be seen without sungalsses, or the goof ball in the garage wearing a tshirt - not a suit, ascot, or scarf?

Image from http://www.automobilemag.com/staff/

FYI now that Source Interlink has bought Automobile Magazine, Ezra won't be with them anymore (he is now switching to Car and Driver) now that they moved to LA, and Jean Jennings split instead of uprooting from everything where she's lived and worked for decades. http://www.automobilemag.com/features/columns/1408-explaining-the-recent-changes-at-automobile-magazine/

A new writer to enjoy has joined Automobile magazine

The following is an excerpt from the column "Asphalt Jungle" in the Sept 2014 issue of Automobile Magazine, which is, and will be, written by Arthur St Antoine

an assignment might actually be “Yugo GV Road Test.” Yeah, we “road-tested” nasty little Serbian-built Fiats that cost $10 less than a contemporary cell phone. And what did one say after driving a communist box less impressive than Marshal Tito’s coffin? Well, what could you say -- at least without sounding like a typical capitalistic jackass? “The GV’s headliner showcases the auto industry’s most creative use of papier-mâché.” Or maybe: “Eventually you get used to the, um, aroma. Our editorial nose wouldn’t call it ‘new-car smell’ exactly -- it’s more like stale Turkish cigarettes and cabbage mixed with a soupçon of totalitarian angst -- but after an hour or two at the wheel, one pleasantly surmounts the overwhelming urge to vomit.”

Like a swarm of zombies, the four-wheeled atrocities just kept coming. The Chevy Citation -- almost sued for defamation of character by a dead racehorse. An endless shell game of Chrysler K-cars, culminating in that transcontinental hybrid, the TC by Maserati -- which married la dolce vita of Benito Mussolini with the American breeding of Archie Bunker.

From the Sept 2014 issue, also, http://www.automobilemag.com/features/columns/1409-when-almost-no-new-cars-were-my-type/

One of the taxi cabs from the movie "The Wiz" is now up for sale

Made by Mechanic Dan and William Reynolds http://www.clearviewtire.com/MechanicDan.php between 1978 and 79

The movie prop was on a lawn in 1997 when a house was bought, and has been taking up space ever since, and now that the property is going to be sold, this taxi from Oz needs a good home.

"When I moved it went about a mile and a half to my parents garage. They both recently passed, so now it is time to get rid of the house and the taxi. It is too bulky to ship to Colorado, and the Homeowners Association will bust my chops if I put it on my lawn. So I have no choice but to sell it. I am a car guy, and want it to go to someone that will treat it right.

As you can see it was abused, I laid fiberglass on it to get it back together. Kids also sprayed red graffiti on it. We painted it in about 2000, but it looks like that wore off. I don’t know what I want for it. It could be worth pennies, or real money. I don’t want it to be scrapped. that’s my main concern.

The shell is in the driveway or garage of my parents house in Atlantic Beach NY, and is too big to fit in a van, it will fit in a small U Haul, or on a trailer. The golf cart that powered it is long gone. We painted it a dozen years ago and it looked good up until we moved in 2007.

The purchaser will have to haul it away. I don’t know if it is worth $3, $300, $3,000 or $30,000. Hopefully someone interested will have an idea of a fair price, not rip me off, and make a fair offer. Tomsebay@comcast.net

I guess Tom got ahold of me because I posted about the Wiz Taxis years ago http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/10/taxis-from-wiz.html

A terrific new video to help kickstart Hullabaloo

http://www.rotoscopers.com/2014/09/01/disney-veterans-gather-to-save-2d-animation-from-extinction-with-hullabaloo/

Hullabaloo is the story of Veronica Daring, a brilliant young scientist who returns home from an elite finishing school to find her father--the eccentric inventor Jonathan Daring--missing without a trace! The only clue left behind points Veronica toward Daring Adventures, an abandoned amusement park used by her father to test his fantastical steam-powered inventions.
There she discovers a strange girl named Jules, a fellow inventor who agrees to help Veronica in locating her missing father and discovering the secrets of his work. Together, Veronica and Jules learn that Jonathan Daring has been kidnapped by a mysterious group of influential persons, who seek to use his latest invention for nefarious purposes.
These villains are wealthy and influential and neither Veronica nor Jules can stop them openly. But determined to save her father and holding true to the family creed that technology should be used for the good of all, not the greed of some, Veronica assumes the secret identity of "Hullabaloo", a goggled crusader who uses wits and science to combat evil and oppose the nefarious conspiracy that has taken her father.

But the question remains: what are the villains up to? What do they plan to do with Jonathan Daring's mysterious new technology? And will Veronica and Jules be able to stop them in time?

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