Just A Car Guy
Cool things with wheels since 2006
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
1937 Pontiac Opera Coupe . 50 years, 2 barns, one owner... for sale with the title. Starting bid, 6500, goes to whoever bids the most
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https://www.facebook.com/commerce/listing/6940010446103268/?media_id=0&ref=share_attachment
but have you seen the unusual circular rollercoaster that was at Coney Island in 1918?
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look at it in the video.. very interesting design! in the video, skip the first 48 seconds https://www.tumblr.com/iosonomer-blog/74854854...
smallest dual rotor I've ever seen
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https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2024/04/now-thats-cool-i-want-one.html
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
1920's Citroen taxi, you gotta wonder how that steering worked!
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https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=875781607909480&set=a.415445867276392
drag strip humor on earth day.. nice!
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https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=828883595932264&set=a.556185906535369
with real stories like this all over the news, every week, why does Hollywood recycle old movies?
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https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=829305862576316&set=a.631391029034468
wow, is that a Stratos used a clothing store prop?
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Someone's store decorator had one hell of a big budget! https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10225496847548284&set=a.1617402035143
looks like a moment of calm after a catastrophe, and luck, having avoided a flip over (must have spun after hitting the guard rails? and the tires tore off?) with no roll bar, and only a lap belt
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https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10225500023627684&set=a.1617402035143
great lighting, good photo
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the government felt it needed new helicopters to transport the Pres off the yard... so it blew 5 billion tax dollars, without checking to see it the expensive waste of dollars new choppers could do the job. They can't.
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Instead of verifying that the new bulletproof taxis could successfully operate on the White House lawn... (in the words of Sikorsky's re...
this is nuts, a 65 Merc made into an RV... the Great Dale House Car is a car/camper conversion built of Denver, Colorado in the 1960’s. Estimates say there are a dozen of them still on the road today.
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Dale Wasinger of Denver, Colorado got into a business of adding campers to cars that were only half wrecked in collisions https://www.hemmin...
a 2009 Solstice... damn, I didn't even know a 350 would fit in that engine bay! well, a 364, with 355 hp and 384 torque
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this popped up on Facebook, in Montana... and sold for 65k. I bet that rockets with the LS6 6.0L, Gen. 4 engine... shame it's not a s...
Damn, a rare chance to buy a GLHS! Sort of... more like a bad project no one wants, that comes with a donor car because it's got so much rust, you're better off swapping bodies and power train to make one good car out of two projects
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https://barnfinds.com/high-performance-build-1985-dodge-omni-glhs
Wow, a Local Motors Rally Fighter is up for sale... I've never seen one sell used! At 31 k miles and 80k... it's not priced to move
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https://barnfinds.com/1-of-50-2014-local-motors-rally-fighter I hadn't heard that LM went out of business in 2022. Well.. it was a reall...
the federal Department of Justice issued a warning to the NYPD to stop illegally parking police cruisers on sidewalks... for a good reason, but not as simple as "be professional, stop breaking the parking laws, you mooks!" Instead, it's quite legal... the federal law about the sidewalks must be clear for wheelchairs! Huh! I like that!
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Terrific photo by Terry Sanders that highlights the lack of the 3 virtues the police have on their door... because they simply abuse their p...
This has almost nothing to do with wheels, it's the claw they'll be using to hoist debris out of the Port of Baltimore. But it is construction, and I do cover that.
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A 200-ton salvage grab arrived in Sparrows Point over the weekend to clear wreckage from the bottom of the Patapsco River. The Dutch-made hy...
In response to the vessel owners’ petition filed in U.S. District Court this month seeking to limit their liability...
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the mayor an city council argued that Grace Ocean Private Ltd. and Synergy Marine Pte Ltd. “put a clearly unseaworthy vessel into the water,...
thank you Bruce P for ringing my tip jar like a dinner bell! Everyone else thanks you too for funding todays blogging! Without tips, I would have to focus on job applications
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Thank you Daniel R for katink-alinkling my tip jar!
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Simply the most spiteful mother in law seat I've ever seen! It's the 1st I've ever seen the Welch touring car, which is nice, but this SEAT! WOW! Thank you Gary!
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How much spite and frustration would the driver have for the person that had to ride on this extra seat? There is NO VIEW! Not with the top ...
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The Welch Motor Car Company was the first American car company to introduce an overhead cam shaft. (thank you Gary!)
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their transmission was one of the very few automobiles with two reverse speeds. General Motors Corporation was busy acquiring numerous auto...
thank you Jon T for telling me about the memorial to an Army biplane that went down in 1922, on the Airplane Monument Trail in the Cuyamaca Forest!
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It's a Liberty engine (I've posted about them before, many of you are familiar with them) if you don't recognize it... what a pe...
Monday, April 22, 2024
Thanks to Gary L who's fallen into my rabbit hole of job searching and turned up amazing stuff, so I'm going to hopefully reward him, and all of you, with a cool post! Ever hear of the Justice Bell? It was carried on the back of a Model T for 5000 miles in 3 months around Pennsylvania!
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Those are solid rubber wheels, with chains... that had to be HARSH on the driver! The bell was a bronze replica of the Liberty Bell of the ...
it's not a surprise to any car guy that a great paint job is nearly endless prep, and intense scrutiny on the base layers of primer and sanding... but this is a new trick to me to see the scratches that have to be removed before paint (we've all seen WHY! No one misses the deep scratches under the paint and clear)
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so, look at this, a powder puff for a guide coat that shows those damn invisible scratches so you keep at it until the primer is perfect, a...
1959 Coronet Lancer
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The Museum of American Speed will embark on a "Sea to Sea in a Model T" road trip on the Lincoln Highway from New York to San Francisco in a 1924 Ford Model T on June 4th to mark the 100th anniversary
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The ten-millionth Ford Car left the Highland Park factories of The Ford Motor Company on June 4th, 1924 Frank Kulick, who attained fame and ...
the 2025 Ford Mustang GTD, one of the few factory weekend track stars, is expected to sell for around $325,000, 1/2 down to reserve one for the approved buyers
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The GTD — named for the International Motor Sports Association’s Grand Touring Daytona racing class — comes from Ford’s engineering departme...
the new preview for Deadpool 3 (Deadpool and Wolverine) was just released, and the 6 wheeled Hydra car from Capt America is now hot rodded, with a flame job
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it's in the lower left behind a couple characters
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Sunday, April 21, 2024
Judi Dench and Helen Mirren photographed by Annie Liebovitz in a 2007 photo spread for Vanity Fair.
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https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=345328631878295&set=a.258422927235533 https://www.vanityfair.com/news/photos/2007/03/filmnoir_portf...
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Thanks to John for sharing this memorial about a B17 crash site in Oregon's Blue Mountains, and it's crew!
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B 17 42-30655 crashed on training flight in Oregon mountains 33 miles from the base near Pendelton, a bomber training site during the war ...
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