https://fordauthority.com/2024/03/farley-reacts-to-dads-post-about-sons-ford-mustang-story/#google_vignette
Just A Car Guy
Cool things with wheels since 2006
Monday, March 18, 2024
(kleenex alert, ok, you were warned) Why buy an 18yr old son a 330hp Mustang? Aggressive cancer. He’s been given months to live and can’t work long enough to buy one himself. (told you so, ya gotta trust me on these things) But that's not the end of the story
I know, that's a lot. And this family doesn't have a chance in medical science to change the outcome.
But they have something few of us will... they KNOW they are living every day like it's last, and after posting the above, the word spread fast, and they received this off from Ford CEO Jim Farley:
Pretty damn cool, I think you'll agree
In an interview with the Detroit Free Press, the young guy related that he’s always been a Ford Mustang fan, and has been saving up his money to buy one for some time.
However, after battling osteosarcoma – a form of cancer – since the age of seven, doctors recently found more tumors in his lungs, meaning that he doesn’t seemingly have much longer to live.
https://fordauthority.com/2024/03/farley-reacts-to-dads-post-about-sons-ford-mustang-story/#google_vignette
“noun piles” are strings of attributive noun linguists like
an example of how far noun piling could be extended is single yet six-word-long noun “station wagon car seat installation instructions.”
Sunday, March 17, 2024
not related to cars except being in a photo with them, because, and here's where this story is in my realm of roads and stuff... Annie made a 2 year, 7000 mile trip on the roadsides to see the Pacific Ocean, by horseback, in 1954-55
She was 63 when her doctor told her she had 2 years to live. She’d just recovered from pneumonia when they found a spot on her lung. The doctor wasn’t sure if it was cancer or tuberculosis, but either way the prognosis wasn’t good.
Annie mortgaged her farm and used the money to buy a beautiful retired race horse named Tarzan. In November 1954, she pulled on men’s dungarees, packed a few clothes and set out for California with her horse and her little doggie.
She had nothing but a bedroll and some clothes. She hung pails of feed from the horse using twine and hoped people across America would be good to an old woman travelling by herself to fulfill her dead mother’s only wish.
She got sick of what life handed her, went on a 7000 mile journey and wrote a book about it.
Annie rode more than four thousand miles, through America’s big cities and small towns.
Along the way, she met ordinary people and celebrities—from Andrew Wyeth (who sketched Tarzan) to Art Linkletter and Groucho Marx. She received many offers—a permanent home at a riding stable in New Jersey, a job at a gas station in rural Kentucky, even a marriage proposal from a Wyoming rancher.
there are a couple copies on Ebay, but, nothing less than 50.
On Amazon, a differnent book, NOT written by Annie, is about 20 dollars.
The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America by Elizabeth Letts
ever heard of the water trough method of high speed loading water for steam locomotives while moving along, no time wasted on slowing, stopping, loading, and slowly getting back up to speed
I've posted photos of nearly every animal capable of pulling a wagon, but this is the first time I've seen a chicken used for pulling power
For a look at the Bison, Lions, Ostriches, Goats, Elk, and the rest: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/animals%20puling%20carts
Saturday, March 16, 2024
cool and innovative bad weather windshields, 1908 Packard Model 30
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10225691694018212&set=gm.1303712536876332&idorvanity=197491484165115
Friday, March 15, 2024
dirt road go carting at the 1960 International Grand Prix De Tecate, A 100 Mile Endurance Event... which is a 100 laps of a one mile city street route. Probably a LOT of fun. (I've been to Tecate, it's so much nicer and quieter than TiJuana)
almost 100 journalists have been murdered by the Israeli military, clearly, concerned that the news would report facts from the front line of the Israel/Palestine war detrimental to the goodwill Israel had internationally when retaliating against the Hamas attack and kidnapping
An Israeli tank that killed a Reuters journalist and wounded six others in Lebanon last year fired two 120mm rounds at a group of “clearly identifiable journalists” in violation of international law, a UN investigation has found.
The investigation by the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil), seen by Reuters, said its personnel did not record any exchange of fire across the border between Israel and Lebanon for more than 40 minutes before the tank opened fire, killing Issam Abdallah, a 37-year-old video journalist.
Just like nothing was done when Israel destroyed the USS Liberty.
The USS Liberty incident was an attack on a United States Navy technical research ship (spy ship), an attack that would leave 34 Americans dead and 171 wounded, by Israeli aircraft and Israeli torpedo boats, on 8 June 1967, at about 2pm local time
The USS Liberty was engaged in peaceful activities in international waters. At the time of the attack, the U.S.S Liberty was flying the American flag, and its identification was clearly indicated in large white letters and numerals on its hull. It was broad daylight and the weather conditions were excellent.
The investigation by the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil), seen by Reuters, said its personnel did not record any exchange of fire across the border between Israel and Lebanon for more than 40 minutes before the tank opened fire, killing Issam Abdallah, a 37-year-old video journalist.
The UN (clearly toothless and unable to mount a military strength capable of enforcing international law) found Israel guilty of the war crime of firing on civilians
However, the UN isn't going to do a thing about it post conviction.
Just like nothing was done when Israel destroyed the USS Liberty.
The USS Liberty was an NSA spy ship and though the United States refused to back Israel in the 6 day war, it was eavesdropping on Israeli military communications during the war. According to Bamford, over the course of Israel’s remarkable territorial acquisition and military victory, it allegedly committed a war crime by slaughtering Egyptian prisoners of war in the city of El Arish in the northern Sinai.
Israeli forces jammed the Liberty's antennas and communication channels, took out the four . 50-caliber machine guns on board, and reportedly shot at life rafts and crew members as they attempted to evacuate the vessel.
The U.S.S. Liberty was peacefully engaged, posed no threat whatsoever to the torpedo boats or aircraft.
ABC’s Nightline interviewed survivors decades after the attack, the results of which never aired. Presumably because interested parties didn’t want unsavory information about Israel broadcast on mainstream American television
Over 50 years later, the NSA maintains the federal security classification of the details, and refuses to comment on, or release information about the murdered Americans.
The claim by Israel is that it's aircraft and torpedo boats mistook the American spy ship for an Egyptian freighter. No explanation for why it would attack a freighter....
The Liberty Veterans Association, an organization comprised of survivors of the 1967 attack, has called for a robust and transparent investigation into the incident for decades, to no avail.
If you'll indulge me, please, stand, remove your hats, and begin the slow clap,... a hero walks among us... a Michigan trucker was found guilty of setting Swift Transportation trailers on fire! A Detroit-area man set fires across the country in ‘rampage of retaliation’ against Swift, US attorney says!
Jurors on Tuesday found Viorel Pricop, 66, of Allen Park in metropolitan Detroit, guilty of six counts of arson of vehicle or property in interstate commerce after a 16-day trial. Investigators said Pricop, who was charged in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California in December 2022, set fire to at least 24 semi-trailers belonging to Swift Transportation in eight states after he was convicted in 2018 for transporting stolen cargo. That earlier case stemmed from an investigation conducted by Swift.
The California fires occurred in San Bernardino and Riverside counties from December 2021 to September 2022, prosecutors said. Pricop is accused of setting the other fires in New Mexico, Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas and Alabama, mostly along Interstates 10 and 40 from June 2020 to March 2022, charging documents say. Drivers were sometimes asleep in their trucks when the fires were set, but no injuries were reported. Pricop faces federal charges in other states.
Swift Transportation, based in Arizona, told investigators this number of fires had never occurred in company history, prompting company officials to hire fire investigation consultants to determine the cause. Investigators uncovered a pattern of similar methods used to light the trailers on fire, including where the fires began on the vehicles and the times they were set, prosecutors said.
Pricop “went on a rampage of retaliation” against Swift Transportation, which linked a 2015 theft to Pricop, said U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada. Swift utilized bait trailers containing tracking devices to catch thieves following a series of thefts. Company investigators traced stolen boxes to a storage facility in Michigan, leading to Pricop’s arrest.
He was convicted in 2018 for a tax offense and for transportation of stolen goods, which stemmed from the Swift investigation. His supervised release ended in June 2019, about a year before the Swift equipment fires began, prosecutors said.
OK, when you read the facts (that's why I included them) he's not such a good guy... but, at a glance the headlines looked like he was trying to save us from the Swift trucking collisions, crashes, smashes, flips, wrong ways, etc. (it's been years since that was a weekly post, but it was epic)
the Woodlites sure give it a 60s funky look!
with the bent over cab, the gold and pink color palate, and the dune buggy nose, the builder NAILED the "groovy" early 60s look of goofy car show only cars like the Roth ones
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=423419666700371&set=a.203057598736580
Hal Blaine even used a bunch of hot rods for his album cover
And the back of the album has a different photo. On the CD, the cover shot is only slightly different. How the hell the music companies in the CD era found more photos from this one photo shoot is a mystery
I just was reminded
there was an airplane parts scandal last year, parts made in China or something, but, they didn't come certified and legal to install in an FAA certified airplane, or something like that.
I wonder if Boeing was one of the recipients of those parts
Thursday, March 14, 2024
Gandini has died. The world of car design will be no damn good without him
the legend was responsible for a dizzying array of concept and production cars, including the Alfa Romeo Carabo and Montreal, Lancia Stratos Zero, Maserati Khamsin, Ferrari 308 GT4 Dino and Rainbow, Fiat X1/9, and of course a variety of Lamborghinis – Bravo, Miura, Marzal, Espada, Urraco, Diablo, and Countach.
My favorite is the Miura.
His rise to prominence began when he was hired by Nuccio Bertone in 1965, but only after his predecessor there, Giorgetto Giugiaro, had departed. A prodigiously talented duo, they’d been born within two weeks of each other in 1938, and would spark off one another thereafter in one of the great creative rivalries of our time.
He then diversified into motorbikes, helicopters, nightclubs, and factories. He was, he said, frustrated by the car industry’s lack of vision. And he became irascible if the conversation dwelt too long on his back catalogue. Old and frail he may have been, but it was the promise of the future that sustained him, not past glories.
“When you’re young the important thing is to work because it’s important to eat,” he told me. “I got to eat every day by designing cars, so in that sense I had some success. With regards to styling it’s a fact that you have to create emotion. Without it a car is useless.”
“When you’re young the important thing is to work because it’s important to eat,” he told me. “I got to eat every day by designing cars, so in that sense I had some success. With regards to styling it’s a fact that you have to create emotion. Without it a car is useless.”
Ski-Doo is the only snowmobile manufacturer to sell machines that meet the bullshit requirement of Yellowstone's eco-warrior jackasses
Ultimately, snowmobiles remained, but with new regulations in Yellowstone so that the WINTER ecosystem is less affected (though the summer is wide open for any and every variation of interaction and frequently maxes out the parking and camping areas)
So the national park service only allows four-stroke snowmobile engines. Only Ski-Doo makes them, so far
Ski-Doo’s four-stroke engine, is efficient and emits less pollution than the two-stroke engines offered in other snow machines. The company’s advanced combustion efficiency engines are designed with a square bore and stroke in a spherical combustion chamber and tuned to use less fuel to create power. .
Of the two Ski-Doo engine configurations allowed at Yellowstone, the 600 ACE is the most fuel efficient with a rating of 28 miles per gallon at 60 horsepower, while the 900 ACE is good for 90 horsepower and gets 21.8 miles per gallon.
Ski-Doo’s four-stroke engine, is efficient and emits less pollution than the two-stroke engines offered in other snow machines. The company’s advanced combustion efficiency engines are designed with a square bore and stroke in a spherical combustion chamber and tuned to use less fuel to create power. .
Of the two Ski-Doo engine configurations allowed at Yellowstone, the 600 ACE is the most fuel efficient with a rating of 28 miles per gallon at 60 horsepower, while the 900 ACE is good for 90 horsepower and gets 21.8 miles per gallon.
A new Ski-Doo costs around 12,000 dollars on average across their line of machines https://ski-doo.brp.com/us/en/models.html not including the 4-8 thousand dollar kids machines
This Oklahoma high school field had turf less than a year old! Any asshole that destroys a high school football field should be arrested, this woman WAS caught, and arrested, but she refused to say why she stole the truck and committed this crime.
This incident began when a woman pulled into a Ford dealership, parking next to the Ford Super Duty, then proceeded to get into the pickup and drive off, according to Police Chief Dexter Scott.
“ She got into the brand new truck, stole the truck, and left the dealership where she headed toward Muskogee,” Scott said.
The thief then proceeded to run into a fence at nearby Sequoyah High School, driving directly onto the football field and ripping off some donuts. This only went on for a few minutes before the woman departed and led authorities on a bit of a chase.
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