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electric super charger? So, a hair dryer without a heating element? Or looking at the images of the distributor cap, it's something to do with the ignition?

stay out of trouble!

The family who took the video were in Yellowstone National Park Aug. 13 https://www.abcfoxmontana.com/news/state/video-shows-bison-ramming-family-s-car-in-yellowstone/article_3be71d99-9b09-5d76-b1c2-6047297966ef.html

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Several cars were still competing at the Tri-County Fair at 9:35 p.m. during the final heat of the demolition derby at the Powell County Fairgrounds when seven drivers were competing for the championship, one car collided with another,  and the driver "came out of the turn he was unable to control the vehicle in any way,"  Sheriff Roselles said Monday. "He ended up going over the top of the fence." “The driver had no control of his vehicle in those final moments,” the Sheriff said. “He was unable to take any evasive action. It was a freak incident and a chain of events that led to this unfortunate accident. It was just a bad series of events.” "It was sad and scary," Victoria Lopez told The Associated Press via Facebook. She and other witnesses said there are usually logs all around the arena at the Powell County Fairgrounds, but this year there wasn't one in the spot where the cars entered the arena. Darylynne Day, the EMT who was killed, leaves behin...

Tom Mingle became fascinated with the Ferrari brand at a young age. He finally saved up enough money to purchase this one, his first, in the early 1970s, but he quickly experienced engine problems. The 275 GTB/4 burned an abnormal amount of oil, and he suspected the valve guides were to blame. He took the V-12 engine partially apart to start the lengthy process of rebuilding it. Life got in the way of his project, so the V-12 sat dismantled in boxes. The car and the boxes of parts followed him from house to house for about four decades until his wife urged him to do something with it. “Don’t die and leave me with a car in boxes; I wouldn’t know what to do with it,” she pleaded. He took her advice, loaded the car and the boxes onto a trailer, and asked a shop to put it back together. https://www.hagerty.com/articles-videos/articles/2019/08/19/cars-that-stole-the-spotlight-at-the-2019-concorso-italiano

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Oh Mother, dear mother, take down the blue star. Replace it with one that is gold. Your son is a Helldiver driver; he’ll never be 30 years old. The people who work for Curtiss  are frequently good and drunk.  One day with an awful hangover, they designed and built an old clunk. The wings are built with precision, the fuselage so strong it won’t fail. Who were the half-witted people who designed the cockpit and tail? The skipper hates Helldiver drivers he doesn’t think much of that clunk. Each time we fly aboard his carrier, he prays that his ship won’t be sunk. My body lies over the ocean; my body lies under the sea. My body lies under the ocean wrapped up in an SB2C! https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2017/09/helldiver-overhead-yorktown-for-landing.html

this Hillman Imp-based 1963 Zagato Zimp is one of three examples built because it was too expensive, and never went into production. Zagato canceled the project, and gave the three examples it made to employees. All three miraculously survived. In the early 1960s, Milan-based Zagato sensed a demand for a coachbuilt coupe with a more budget-friendly price than Alfa Romeo-based models. It started with the Imp, Hillman’s answer to the Austin Mini, and its stylists penned a low-slung design characterized by sharp styling cues. It manufactured the body using aluminum to keep weight in check, and deleted the Imp’s flip-up rear window. Many interior parts (including the instrument cluster) were carried over from the Imp to the Zimp. https://www.hagerty.com/articles-videos/articles/2019/08/19/cars-that-stole-the-spotlight-at-the-2019-concorso-italiano

and that garage was built in 1942, but not used since 1982 David has been asking his 83 year old father (doctor who work in NYC and travels back and forth to NJ daily) to pull his 1969 Mercedes 280 SL out of their old garage and restore it so it can be passed down to his grandchildren. This is wow amount of work just to clean this car, prior to a restoration, just to surprise and wow the original owner. Frankly, it's a pleasure to watch an expert at anything at work, and when it's someone cleaning? Even better https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2019/08/interesting-clean-up-of-nice-car.html https://www.facebook.com/AMMOnyc/ https://www.instagram.com/ammonyc/ https://www.ammonyc.com/

Maybe you remember the movie Witness? Viggo stood out in it, and the Prophecy? Wow, if you saw that movie I bet you too were stunned by Viggo playing the devil. You probably didn't see his version of Vanishing Point , but I bet you remember him in GI Jane! And he was excellently cast as Aragorn in Lord of the Rings, Hildalgo was a terrific movie, and who else would have a naked fight as a russian mobster, and outshine Ed Harris in A History Of Violence? Anyway, I've appreciated a lot of movies he's been in because I simply can't not believe he's whatever character I'm watching. He's that good. Not all actors are... of course. But some just wow you with their acting skill. Others just do some dialog but they're not acting, they're simply in a scene with dialog and marks on the floor to stand in while repeating the dialog. 

So far, this makes 2 this year within 2 miles that I've seen get stuck this way.  What I haven't seen is a fast, smart way to get these unstuck. I bet a pair of small wheels to swap with the front ones would get them back on their way within an hour. Sure it's mean swapping tires twice, big ones off, small ones on, drive a short distance back and out of the problem, then small ones off and big ones on.

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nice Adirondack chair there on the end of the dock as well. https://www.facebook.com/groups/49655829434/permalink/10157275982804435/

ain't it amazing the things people have done in their lives that have no connection to what they are doing now, or are best known for? He has won an Emmy, a Tony, and a Golden Globe, along with many other awards that people not in the movie and acting industry have never heard of, and has a bachelors in political science... proving that trying to figure out what the hell you're going to do in life has no bearing on what you choose when graduating high school. 

Juan, the young, entrepreneurial sixteen year-old who seems intent on making this family business a legit one, tells the camera over and over again that he doesn’t understand why people (including the police in several instances) wouldn’t just agree to be helped and pay them in turn. Government ambulances aren’t showing up and they’re just trying to make a living. Why would people be concerned with their legality or their expenses at times when their lives are literally on the line? He doesn’t get it. It’s obvious that Lorentzen does. Moreover, the Connecticut-born director nudges us to consider both the system that’s allowed these kinds of services to pop up in such a populous city, as well as the one that’s left Juan and his family with few other opportunities to thrive. Lorentzen’s filmmaking is unfussy and near-surgical in its precision. At times it’s as thrilling as any action movie, at others as quiet as an intimate family drama. He balances reckless car chase scenes on nighttime...

so take a last look at the genius level designs in robots that are pitted against each other for the purposes of getting young people to walk away from flatscreen tv video games and into the garage to design something made with old power tools and RC cars that can't be flipped over. plus, they have wheels. What the fuck's next? Is you tube going to ban power tool races? JFC, the fucktards are wrecking entertainment in any way they can, first it was female Thor, now it's banning robowars. Or am I wrong? Has You Tube AI decided to prevent human to robot violence destruction? Looking out for it's robot brothers and transistors? After all, You Tube gives not one fuck about copyright law violations, it proposes to us that it gives a shit about battle bot destruction? https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2019/8/20/20825858/youtube-bans-fighting-robot-videos-animal-cruelty-roughly-10-years-too-soon-ai-google

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The surrounding area was part of a federally funded restoration effort in the early 2000s to help clean up damages done by roads, logging, and other man-made structures. Ironically the business on the door is some envirofriendly consultant douchebag from Portland that makes the statement that it's a business FOUNDED on water quality. "We proudly support South Lake Tahoe’s League to Save Lake Tahoe, they policies and leadership are a great example of how we can coexist with nature while preserving our home." BTC Analytics, Inc. was formed in the beginning of 2016 in Portland, Oregon in the United States of America as BTC Consulting, LLC in order to apply analytical methodologies to solve a water quality case BTC Analytics understands the basic human right for proper pH balanced water that also minimizes the dependence of hazardous, non-biodegradable plastics that pollute the world’s oceans—we believe this standard and transportation of water is an essential human right w...

https://www.hagerty.com/articles-videos/articles/2019/08/19/cringe-worthy-cars-2019-concours-dlemons

https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2017/09/pilot-i-meant-to-do-that.html I watched this a couple times, and noticed that he hit the ground on the far side of the road and may have tore through the road.... he definitely stress tested the suspension and tires... it's amazing they didn't blow out

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A New Yorker returned to her vehicle after a normal trip to the grocery store to find a dead body in the bed of her truck. https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-york-woman-finds-dead-body-in-bed-of-truck-after-grocery-trip-police Niagara County Sheriff's Office Press Release: On August 16, 2019, the Niagara County Sheriff's Office was notified of a deceased male in the bed of a pickup truck at Tops, 3949 Lockport-Olcott Road, in the Town of Newfane. Initial investigation revealed that a female operator left Wayne County this morning enroute to Niagara County. The female reported that she traveled through Wayne County, Monroe County, and Orleans County before stopping at Tops in Wrights Corners. The female reported that upon finishing her shopping, she opened the tailgate of her truck to place groceries and noticed the deceased male inside the bed. The female was not able to identify the male, nor has the Niagara County Sheriff's Office been able to positively identify him. The Cri...

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Dennis pointed out (quite astonishingly) that a design artwork I posted yesterday was the Norseman (sank and was lost with the Andrea Doria https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-chrysler-norseman-prototype-lost.html   ) Well, that's quite amazing that he could pick out what car it was from the one silhouette painting. I wasn't paying attention to what cars these drawings became, I was doing a lot of blogging yesterday, last night, and today, and hadn't even gone back to look over the previous work for this week so far. So, you know, golf clap for nailing that, I'm stunned that a car that rarely shows up in anything, as it was lost 63 years ago, was identified. Stunning actually. So, I'm amazed, I bet you readers are too However, why must he commit the heinous act of sending me a link to some other website?  (wikipedia - because he seems to have believed I wouldn't know what the Norseman was) I think that covered it quite well. Don't you? No need to be...

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and in addition to the new exhibit announcements and car donations, the Petersen officially welcomed two new board members to its team of automotive luminaries. Hong Kong-based businessman and notable car collector Wiliam E. Connor  and Dr. Wolfgang Porsche was appointed as an honorary board member. Dr. Porsche is the youngest son of Ferdinand Porsche Along with the new board members, the Petersen announced four new Founding Members: the Otis Booth Foundation, Tom Malloy, Phillip Sarofim and James Hetfield. Founding Members are top-level museum donors. (Otis Booth Foundation donated 5 million) https://www.motorious.com/articles/news/365939/hetfield-collection-petersen https://www.loudersound.com/news/metallicas-james-hetfield-donates-classic-car-collection-to-exhibition http://kahnmedia.com/2019/08/petersen-automotive-museum-announces-acquisition-and-display-of-the-james-hetfield-collection-new-hypercar-exhibit/

this 66 Continental is noteworthy for being a rare factory-backed limo constructed by Lehmann-Peterson that was one of the best of its time. Just a nice limo the Presley family used for several years around Memphis before it was later purchased by noted Chicago car collector Tom Petrozzini. Petrozzini used it for family affairs and business meetings on occasion, but eventually put it in storage, where it sat gathering dust for decades until it was rediscovered after his death in 2014. https://www.motorious.com/articles/news/365388/elvis-presley-lincoln-limo-auction https://www.mecum.com/lots/CA0819-381143/1967-lincoln-continental-lehmann-peterson-limousine http://www.montereycountyweekly.com/blogs/arts_culture_blog/the-cars-the-shows-and-the-dreary-economic-warning-a/article_fab3be28-c37f-11e9-8486-2b35d92b0f62.html By the way, most of the high dollar cars weren't selling, the sellers still think it's 2017 and that prices are still rising, and they are trying to go out with rec...

See how whatever isn't fenders and hood is a material that looks like leather? Early Bentley’s came with a fabric body called Rexine. When world-renowned collector Peter Livanos found his 1929 open tourer with body by Vanden Plas, the car was in sorry shape. To make matters worse, no one knew the recipe for Rexine—it had been lost for decades after fabric bodies fell out of favor—so restorers turned to other fabrics as replacements. But, says Graham Moss, a Bentley restorer spent years tracking down the right mix to produce Rexine. And just as he honed in, his friend and Bentley historian learned of an existing, long unused Rexine machine in an abandoned English factory in the process of being demolished. Long story short, Hartley’s Bentley was the first to receive a brand new, period correct body. http://www.montereycountyweekly.com/blogs/arts_culture_blog/the-cars-the-shows-and-the-dreary-economic-warning-a/article_fab3be28-c37f-11e9-8486-2b35d92b0f62.html https://www.lbsbind.com...

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Best known for his ownership of Aston Martin from 1947 to 1972, David Brown became managing director of the family firm, David Brown Gear Company Limited, in 1931. He first turned to the manufacture of tractors in 1936 in collaboration with inventor Harry Ferguson, building the Ferguson-Brown tractor at a plant in Meltham Mills, West Yorkshire. In the post-war era David Brown Ltd was one of the UK’s largest tractor manufacturers but its owner’s subsidisation of his beloved Aston Martin could not be sustained forever; when the sports car maker was sold in 1972 the tractor division was bought by Tenneco International, which re-badged its products as ‘Case’. And there you go, Aston Martin, Ferguson, and Case and what they have in common, take that James Burke! https://images1.bonhams.com/original?src=Images/live/2015-04/20/S-22721-0-1.pdf https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22721/lot/171/?category=list

so if you have some great unused back woods dirt roads, or gravel quarries, or empty fallow fields I think your only going to look at those locations with regret from now on, wishing (like me) that you had one of these, and some buddies with these, a day off work when you can all get together to goof off, and some gas. Prices are steep... you can buy a new Camaro or Mustang for the same money, even used Corvettes! A complete base SIERRA starts at 40k, and the most commonly raced RX3 car is 50k. But, it might just be cheaper to build your own, if you're a welder, with a 750cc engine and sequential gearbox from a Suzuki GSXR750 or some similar chain drive rocket. These weight about 650 lbs It looks like, with very little research, that these cost around 40k in the USA, and the Semog is a European race cart, but these are built in the USA by Fast and Speed, Crosskarts USA,  Lyfe Motorsports / Sierra Cars, and called the CrossKart or ARX 3. You can even rent them at track days for...

Yes, Larry Shinoda did a hell of a lot of things REALLY effing well. He was Dr Dick Thompson's mechanic on the SR2 and the Sting Ray. 1959-60, SCCA racing. http://www.deansgarage.com/2017/dr-dick-thompson-remembers/ https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/Larry%20Shinoda

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the first words you hear from participants in a race should not be "I love you!" "I love you too!"... they should be "Start your engines" or, "Oh say, can you see..." What we really want is  - get in, sit down, shut up, and drive. Like so: Starts tomorrow on Netflix.