Wednesday, May 22, 2013
I found some familiar cars at El Mirage this past weekend, I've seen them most of the past 4 years I've been back to the May event the SCTA has at El Mirage
For everyone else, these cars are there every year I've been there, and I thought that this year instead of avoiding posting the cars I've featured before, I'd just do this simple gallery to show who is still having fun at the dry lakes. For previous galleries of these cars (If you're interested) http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/El%20Mirage
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/May%2015%202010%20El%20Mirage
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/May%2014%202011%20El%20Mirage
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/May%2019%202012%20El%20Mirage
I found another movie that uses the Leslie Special!
it stalls out right on the center of the railroad tracks, so it can be smashed by the train. One very old gag from the silent movie era
this is the first time I noticed that the hood ornament was a L with wings
This movie is also a Warner Brothers movie, made in 1969. The Great Race in 1965 used the car in white with exhaust pipes coming out of the side cowls. The Ballad of Cable Hogue http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/12/in-movie-great-race-you-may-have-liked.html was filmed in 1970, and had the car in green
A movie with a steam locomotive and a firetruck, that'd be cool. But "The Good Guys and the Bad Guys" has the firetruck on the train!
in a nice "making of" in the special features, they give a bit of info... this town has at least 2 trains of the few Narrow Gauge steam locomotives available, and so they filmed a lot of the movie in Chamas New Mexico
in the movie the train number changes from 550 to 557, but it's 484, 487 or 488 if you see them today Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad http://www.chamavillage.com/ctsrr.html
In February 1880, the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad began construction of the San Juan extension, a route that went from Alamosa, Colorado to Silverton, Colorado by way of Cumbres Pass, Chama and Durango.
Railroad service to Chama began in February, 1881 and facilities for servicing railroad equipment, a depot, warehouses and stockyards were set up along the route surveyed for the railroad. The brief period of construction from 1880-1881 was one of the most exciting episodes in the area’s history and Chama almost immediately became a boomtown.
The possibilities for development attracted both industrious and disreputable characters from all around. Individuals interested in developing the coal mines in Monero rapidly appeared on the scene as did representatives of the lumber industry, laborers, engineers and contractors to build the railroad and buildings required to accommodate the mass of people attracted to the booming railroad town of Chama.
For many years Chama remained a rowdy and exciting place to be. It was a very prosperous town with plenty of work and a great deal of entertainment in the forms of saloons, gambling houses, moonshine stills, etc. Groceries were expensive and outlaws, such as the Clay Allison gang, regularly held up the railroad pay car construction camps with large payrolls, saloons and gambling houses.
In the past, the main industries of the area were logging, mining and sheep and cattle ranching. Before the logging industry clear-cut much of the timber, the vast grasslands one now sees, were hundreds of square miles of forest. In pre-logging days the forest was so thick that it was difficult for a man on horseback to negotiate his way through the trees. The sheep industry operated on a grand scale until the depression and the terrible winter of 1931-32 combined to nearly wipe out the sheep industry.
http://www.visitchama.com/
Now not even a shadow of it's former reputation and business size, JC Penny once catered to muscle cars
image from http://megadeluxe.com
New York switches parking signs then sends parking enforcement (who works for the Dept of Finance.. just so you know who this benefits) to ticket the cars that had been legally parked
found on http://consumerist.com/2013/05/21/watch-as-city-changes-parking-signs-then-issues-tickets-to-cars-that-had-been-parked-legally/ thanks to Steve!
Cars parked along one side of the street shown in the video are parked legally when the video begins. But this stretch of road will soon be home to one of NYC’s new bike-share program, meaning there can be no parking in front of the large bike rack to be installed. And so, as you can see on the video, a city employee comes in and installs a new No Standing Anytime sign. And within 25 minutes of that sign going up, a parking enforcement officer is swooping in to issue tickets — $115 each — to cars that had been legally parked before the sign was changed. When contacted by CBS 2, a rep for the Department of Transportation simply said that “any motorist who believes they received a ticket in error can contest it through the Department of Finance, which adjudicates violations.”
Cars parked along one side of the street shown in the video are parked legally when the video begins. But this stretch of road will soon be home to one of NYC’s new bike-share program, meaning there can be no parking in front of the large bike rack to be installed. And so, as you can see on the video, a city employee comes in and installs a new No Standing Anytime sign. And within 25 minutes of that sign going up, a parking enforcement officer is swooping in to issue tickets — $115 each — to cars that had been legally parked before the sign was changed. When contacted by CBS 2, a rep for the Department of Transportation simply said that “any motorist who believes they received a ticket in error can contest it through the Department of Finance, which adjudicates violations.”
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