here's the video: https://www.tumblr.com/estrigifor/749666506128998400?source=share
Sunday, May 05, 2024
there once was a Pontiac plan to have a large Firebird decal on the deck lid.
Revision 7 also revealed that Pontiac intended to accent the plateau of the Sprint-6 hood with a smaller, but similar bird.
California $100 billion boondoggle project for high speed trains, produced very little, and has little to nothing to show for that fortune blown on the project, except this bridge that does nothing, and took 7 years to build
here is the “Fresno River Viaduct,” high speed railway bridge after 3 years and 11 billion dollars
Both sides of Interstate 95 in Norwalk have fully reopened on Sunday, days after the 8000 gallons of gas burned the overpass, and area around the semi tanker trailer, for about 50 feet in every direction
“It is truly amazing that in less than 80 hours from that fiery crash Thursday that shut down traffic in both directions, the highway again is fully open,” Governor Lamont said in part in a statement.
Engineers have also been working to develop preliminary replacement plans for the Fairfield Avenue Bridge. The designs are expected to be completed within the next two weeks with the replacement expected to take about a year.
"Unfortunately, there is such a backlog on steel and materials. We're going to be, you know, up to a year before that bridge can get replaced," said Morgan.
it cost about 8k to get a Tesla truck wrapped... so that better turn out good. This one impressed me, it's common, but still cool, the flying tigers motif
skip all the wasted time and bullshit until minute 6. Nothing worth seeing there. Pure promotion BS
Again, skip to the 6 minute mark
https://www.autoevolution.com/news/this-man-made-his-cybertruck-rust-on-purpose-my-wife-is-going-to-hate-it-233419.html#
there is only one Tesla truck on Nantucket... and the driver? Kinda stupid. That's a problem, when you are the ONLY Tesla truck on the island, you can't claim someone else did the stupid things you are photographed doing
The first Tesla Cybertruck to visit Nantucket rolled off the Steamship Authority ferry Thursday afternoon. It didn't take long to make an impression.
The vehicle was first spotted by people on Main Street, where it was parked directly on a crosswalk. But that was just the beginning.
A few hours later the truck reappeared, and this time it was stuck in the sand at Eel Point.
amazing... that these are easy enough to engineer, that they were able to be built, without electric tools, about 700 years ago. If well-maintained, a noria will have complete replacement of its wooden parts every 15 years.
These water wheels, also known as the Noria of Hama, and the Roman like aqueduct, in modern Syria on the river Orontes
A series of 17 norias, historic water-raising machines for irrigation, along the Orontes River in the city of Hama, Syria.
They are tall water wheels with box-like water collection compartments embedded around their rims. As the river flows, it pushes these water collection boxes under water, where they quickly fill up, then are driven up to the top of the wheel where they empty into an aqueduct. The aqueduct can carry the water to supply buildings, gardens and farmland.
Seventeen of Hama's original norias have been conserved. They are notable for their medieval origins, for their large number and for the enormous size of two of them - for nearly 500 years the tallest waterwheels in the world.
Constructed without power tools, probably without chain hoists... likely only with human and ox power.
Wake County Bookmobile driver and librarian India White, July 1966
White drove the bookmobile all over the county for 20 years. She had dozens of assistants over the years, many either not able to learn the routes or drive a manual transmission. White died in 2000 at 92 years of age.
very surprising... they made a Canadian spec '81 Z 28 Camaro - that got a stick shift. They did not make a Stick Shift 1981 Camaro Z28 to sell in the USA that year. Lucky darn Canadian young men got the better car that year!
This is a Canadian-spec version of the 1981 Chevrolet Camaro Z28, and as such, it could be ordered with the 4-speed manual transmission which wasn’t available to American-delivered cars – they all got the automatic.
As a result of this one-year-only, cross border rule, original Canadian-ordered Chevrolet Camaro Z28s from 1981 are among the most collectible from the era.
For 1981 the Z28 and its 350 cubic inch (5.7 liter) V8 could only be ordered with the automatic transmission with a lock-up torque converter, which was linked to the CCC unit.
This limitation didn’t apply for non-US orders however, and as a result there was a special Canadian version of the Z28 Camaro that wasn’t fitted with the power-sapping CCC unit, and could still be ordered with the Borg Warner 4-speed manual transmission.
Canadian Camaro buyers made good use of the loophole, over 3,000 4-speed manual examples of the 1981 Z28 were sold, all of which were faster than any new Camaro sold in America that year.
This limitation didn’t apply for non-US orders however, and as a result there was a special Canadian version of the Z28 Camaro that wasn’t fitted with the power-sapping CCC unit, and could still be ordered with the Borg Warner 4-speed manual transmission.
Canadian Camaro buyers made good use of the loophole, over 3,000 4-speed manual examples of the 1981 Z28 were sold, all of which were faster than any new Camaro sold in America that year.
Saturday, May 04, 2024
while watching Clarkson's Farm season 3, I learned that in 1962 there was an attempt to get hover craft Land Rovers... the "Hover Rover"
created by Hovercraft makers Vickers, the hover skirt was proposed as an aftermarket conversion which could be fitted to “any vehicle”
Friday, May 03, 2024
One side of the four-lane highway collapsed near the city of Meizhou in southeastern China, at 2am, resulting in 48 deaths on Thursday, in a treacherous and mountainous area.
Twenty-three vehicles fell down a steep slope, some sending up flames as they caught fire.
Someone just wrote about how making you tube videos about cars didn't make them any money, so, FYI, here's the info from Autopian.com that it takes 4 million views to only make 2700, yes, that's less than 3k.
The point it makes, is that it isn't lifestyle level income being generated by YouTube takes far larger numbers than what car videos generate.
It would take more like 10 million views, monthly, to equal a months pay at a 25 an hour job. Just rough math, don't think for a second I've researched the matter and figured out the taxes or whatever.
Some people have told me I should try that... well, it's now official, it's not worth it unless a person has an enormous audience. About 10,000 times more than I have. And a person would need a catchy concept to do a better video series than all the people already trying to make a go of it with you tube videos on cars and trucks.
Thursday, May 02, 2024
Snapping necks in Brisbane Australia (I've been there! WONDERFUL people!) 28-liter V12 Cummins 1710 with twin turbos, rated at 900 hp and able to spit out 4,000 lb-ft of torque.
If you ever go there, see if the Bellowing Bull Bar and Grill is still there.
I REALLY liked todays header, a Lincoln converted to tractor/doodlebug functions around a farm
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looks like a cool collection huh? But this is the illegally bought storage of former Indiana Sheriff Noel, so... not likely to be his much longer, and it's all evidence of his million of dollars of theft
I see a Hellcat, a Superbird, a 70 Coronet, 69 Roadrunner, 71 police car in the top, 2nd from the right in a plastic drop cloth, a 68 Charger, a Packard in the lower right, 2 modern chargers possibly Scat Packs, the lifted hood red 1969 looks like either a Super Bee or Road Runner
this is how much he and his family blew through in the past couple years.... 54 thousand dollars in cigars? 83 thou at Macy's? Macy's must LOVE his family.
The SBA concluded Noel family members racked up the following amount of "unlawful" charges:
Jamey Noel: $3,494,571.95
Misty Noel: $663,211.92
Kasey Noel: $109,361.32
Misty Noel: $663,211.92
Kasey Noel: $109,361.32
(Paddle wheelers have wheels, it says so right in the name, that means I get to post about them according to my rule about "cool things with wheels") the Belle of Cincinnati wins the 61st Great Steamboat Race
The Belle of Cincinnati hadn't won the Great Steamboat Race since 2017, so, it was a happy event for her fans
According to the Kentucky Derby Festival, a funny awards ceremony happened on the Belle of Louisville; Mayor Craig Greenberg hit them with a citation.
“Well, looky there… the judges missed something. This is your uniform citation, and the Belle of Cincinnati has been cited for speeding down the Ohio River,” He joked, holding up the citation. “Large vessel exceeding safe speeds on the mighty Ohio during Derby Week, and your court location is same time, same place, next year!”
a fuel tanker with 8500 gallons of gas ran into a semi truck under the I-95 at Exit 15 overpass in Norwalk, Connecticut ... shutting down the interstate in both directions for days as the overpass steel was damaged and the pavement on the 95 was too, from the heat of 3 hours of burning gas
Last fall, the state Department of Transportation replaced a nearby portion of I-95 that carried traffic over a local road in Westport. The sections were pre-built, allowing the bridge to be completed over two weekends.
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