March 2012 ~ cars

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Close call, these guys caught their pop up tent just before it crashed into their cars... and ruined the paint and bodywork on their show cars

10:25 PM

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The wind picked up after 11 am... and the rain started at ...

Nice Olds F85 caught my eye in a parking lot... Cragar SS rims make about everything look better... but the overall design, though simple, is good looking

6:40 PM

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Looks a lot like a 66 Chevelle from the sideTake the lettering off the tail panel, and no one would know what this car is.&nb...

The well animated vehicles from the movie "Tin Tin", quite the variety

6:21 PM

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A train crash in the movie "Hugo" replicates the famous Oct 1895 Granville-Paris Express wreck photo... pretty cool to include that in a movie

5:51 PM

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here is the originalThe engine careened across almost 98 ft of the station concourse, crashed through a 2 foot thick wall, shot across a terrace and sailed out of the station, plummeting onto the Place de Rennes 33 ft below, where it stood on its nose. All on board the train survived, five sustaining injuries: two passengers (out of 131), the fireman and two conductors; however, one woman on the street...

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

most unusual utility spotlight I've come across, looks like vintage German VW bug equipment, my compliments to the owner for finding such a rare thing

10:03 PM

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I should have gotten a better photo of the top of it. Anyone seen one before? I never h...

louvered headlight covers?

9:59 PM

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unusual, and cool handmade car show plaque

9:58 PM

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I'd rather get one of these than the aluminum postage business card ones that are so com...

87 year old Bentley driven over 1.5 million kilometers, and cross country for fun, still a pleasure to it's owner, 49 yr old, carpenter Robin Hine

9:53 PM

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I discovered this story on the Vintage Racing League newsletter that I get in email on a weekly basis, http://multibriefs.com/briefs/VRL/VRL123111.php but the full story was removed from the source they cite, the Vancouver newspaper, so I looked around the internet, and found a Facebook page for Robin's 6000 mile trek across Canada in his Bentley, http://www.facebook.com/pages/RM-X-Canada/229863477043872#!/pages/RM-X-Canada/229863477043872...