Just A Car Guy
Cool things with wheels since 2006
Tuesday, May 07, 2024
Beginning as early as 600 B.C., the ancient Greeks created an ambitious road partially paved with stone, that spanned across the entire Isthmus of Corinth to haul boats or cargo from one port to the other, to avoid a 220 mile voyage over water
Frank Wootton, the RAF’s official artist
Wootton had always been involved in charity work. During the war he sketched fellow servicemen for a pound a head, raising £250 for the Wings For Victory fundraiser.
Fitting then, that at Wootton’s funeral in Sussex, April 1998, a Spitfire performed a victory roll.
I stumbled onto a website focused on writng about cars, and found they'd made a couple articles on art cars, and looking through to see about "new to me" examples, found that "driventowrite.com" had found my article on Delaunay!
that delights me, as I think I may have the most comprehensive coverage of Delaunay's art online. https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search?q=Delaunay
Monday, May 06, 2024
Employees at Tampa International Airport took photos with a stuffed animal that was accidentally left behind and later presented the owner of the toy, a six-year-old boy named Owen, with a book of the photos that depicted his adventures.
A Hobbes went on a “great adventure” at Tampa International Airport in Florida after being accidentally left behind by his young owner in 2015
Owen Lake, 6, traveled to Houston with his parents, and was “distraught” after realizing he lost Hobbes.
Owen and Hobbes were reunited when Owen flew back to Tampa, where staff surprised the boy with a photo book of his favorite tiger’s vivid adventures at the airport while away from his owner.
https://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/airport-takes-boys-lost-stuffed-animal-tiger-great/story?id=31803188
A late model pickup truck was pulled up from a lake in relation to an auto theft case from six years ago.
A Florida man was taken to jail after he intentionally carved his name into a Broward Sheriff's Office marked patrol car last week
In 2019, Disney got a pair of remotely piloted Boeing CV2 Cargo electrical vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, and had the imagineers outfit them with X-wing “body shells” and flew them over Walt Disney World
The National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., is located at Sixth Street and Independence Avenue S.W. The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center is located in Chantilly, Virginia, near Washington Dulles International Airport. It is open daily from 10 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. (closed Dec. 25). Admission is free, but there is a $15 fee for parking.
Sunday, May 05, 2024
there once was a Pontiac plan to have a large Firebird decal on the deck lid.
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
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.
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
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 were photographed doing
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.