Monday, March 18, 2024

the LaFrance is on airbags, and has the exhaust directed out the hydrant on the running board




one of the rare Fashion Couture crossovers with the automotive field


1924 AGB (Art Goût Beauté) Salon de l'Auto, 
with fashions by Worth, Doucet, Lucien Lelong, Molyneux, Jean Patou, by the artist Paul Poiret in 1925

to see more of the fashion pages in full color like this, from 1910-1930 French magazine: https://hprints.com/en/search/pochoir/2/


In the 1910s, this oracle of the mode was Paul Poiret, known in America as “The King of Fashion.” In Paris, he was simply Le Magnifique, after Süleyman the Magnificent, a suitable soubriquet for a couturier who, alongside the all-pervasive influence of Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, employed the language of Orientalism to develop the romantic and theatrical possibilities of clothing.

Poiret effectively established the canon of modern dress and developed the blueprint of the modern fashion industry. Such was his vision that Poiret not only changed the course of costume history but also steered it in the direction of modern design history.

While Poiret learned his craft at two of the oldest and most revered couture houses, he spent his first decade as an independent couturier not only breaking with established conventions of dressmaking, but subverting and eventually destroying their underlying presumptions. He began with the body, liberating it first from the petticoat in 1903 and then from the corset in 1906.

these 1931-32 Erector Set four foot model of the New York Central's 20th Century Limited sell for around 4 thousand apiece



The Shacks - rail cars that functioned as temporary mobile housing and for supplies that followed loggers into the forested wilds of north-central Pennsylvania during the late 19th-century


all the pages of Miyazaki's artwork for his movies that were in his early magazine of concepts, are online


there are a LOT, these are only a sample




there once was a time when kids had short hair and could afford gas for go carts! (not so much anymore at 5 a gallon)


https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/traditional-images-that-need-no-explanation.1143737/page-46#post-13443834

Back when a single blue collar high school graduate's income could pay for a house, a car, AND with a couple buddies teamed up, they could race fund a racecar for a season



notice that they are all leaning on its matched set full size muscle car.

I guess this is a sportsman? Midget?

(kleenex alert, ok, you were warned) Why buy an 18yr old son a 330hp Mustang? Aggressive cancer. He’s been given months to live and can’t work long enough to buy one himself. (told you so, ya gotta trust me on these things) But that's not the end of the story













I know, that's a lot. And this family doesn't have a chance in medical science to change the outcome. 

But they have something few of us will... they KNOW they are living every day like it's last, and after posting the above, the word spread fast, and they received this off from Ford CEO Jim Farley:


Pretty damn cool, I think you'll agree

In an interview with the Detroit Free Press, the young guy related that he’s always been a Ford Mustang fan, and has been saving up his money to buy one for some time. 

However, after battling osteosarcoma – a form of cancer – since the age of seven, doctors recently found more tumors in his lungs, meaning that he doesn’t seemingly have much longer to live.

https://fordauthority.com/2024/03/farley-reacts-to-dads-post-about-sons-ford-mustang-story/#google_vignette

perfect size back tires for my 69 Dodge... this is how it OUGHT to look when I replace the currently undersized rims, with ones like this, 10" wide, 18 or 20" tall






ok, I'm here to please!


“noun piles” are strings of attributive noun linguists like

an example of how far noun piling could be extended is single yet six-word-long noun “station wagon car seat installation instructions.”

Sunday, March 17, 2024

I'm guessing this was part of a traveling circus or carnival

 

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=7192724557515624&set=gm.2192002154525230&idorvanity=811703519221774

not related to cars except being in a photo with them, because, and here's where this story is in my realm of roads and stuff... Annie made a 2 year, 7000 mile trip on the roadsides to see the Pacific Ocean, by horseback, in 1954-55

 

Annie was just a kid who hated life on the Maine farm she was born on, so when she got old enough, she ran away from home and joined the circus as a bareback rider. She went home when she got a letter that her mom was sick.

She was 63 when her doctor told her she had 2 years to live. She’d just recovered from pneumonia when they found a spot on her lung. The doctor wasn’t sure if it was cancer or tuberculosis, but either way the prognosis wasn’t good.

Annie mortgaged her farm and used the money to buy a beautiful retired race horse named Tarzan. In November 1954, she pulled on men’s dungarees, packed a few clothes and set out for California with her horse and her little doggie.

She had nothing but a bedroll and some clothes. She hung pails of feed from the horse using twine and hoped people across America would be good to an old woman travelling by herself to fulfill her dead mother’s only wish.

She got sick of what life handed her, went on a 7000 mile journey and wrote a book about it.


Between 1954 and 1956, she pushed through blizzards, forded rivers, climbed mountains, and clung to the narrow shoulder as cars whipped by at speed. 

Annie rode more than four thousand miles, through America’s big cities and small towns. 

Along the way, she met ordinary people and celebrities—from Andrew Wyeth (who sketched Tarzan) to Art Linkletter and Groucho Marx. She received many offers—a permanent home at a riding stable in New Jersey, a job at a gas station in rural Kentucky, even a marriage proposal from a Wyoming rancher.




there are a couple copies on Ebay, but, nothing less than 50. 
On Amazon, a differnent book, NOT written by Annie, is about 20 dollars. 
The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America by Elizabeth Letts  

a cable car on Mount Vesuvius in Italy about 124 years ago

 

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=7614592308572045&set=gm.2194492820942830&idorvanity=811703519221774

ever heard of the water trough method of high speed loading water for steam locomotives while moving along, no time wasted on slowing, stopping, loading, and slowly getting back up to speed


 


On routes used regularly for long-distance steam-hauled passenger and freight services (like the Settle-Carlisle Railway was), water troughs could be placed between the rails of each running line (see Image 6) and filled with water via a water tank (usually in the form of a tank house). These troughs allowed train crews to replenish the water supplies of their locomotives without having to stop the train.

As the locomotive reached the start of the water trough (usually indicated by a track side marker board), the fireman would lower a scoop into the trough. The forward movement of the train would force water up the scoop, through a pipe and into the locomotive's tender or water tank.


I've seen a lot of street vendors but never one trying to sell milk

 

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10231989369938413&set=gm.2196237404101705&idorvanity=811703519221774

I've posted photos of nearly every animal capable of pulling a wagon, but this is the first time I've seen a chicken used for pulling power



For a look at the Bison, Lions, Ostriches, Goats, Elk, and the rest: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/animals%20puling%20carts 

Saturday, March 16, 2024

1917 car identification guide




cool and innovative bad weather windshields, 1908 Packard Model 30


https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10225691694018212&set=gm.1303712536876332&idorvanity=197491484165115
 

A 1914/15 Cretor custom Popcorn Truck with a Buda engine, seems to be used for tourist photos, and the operator is hanging out in the back


Huh, a 1920s baseball team named Cadillac (probably of the town of Cadillac Michigan) with a Cadillac


1929 Ruxton height compared to contemporary sedan.


https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10227338595869729&set=gm.1444651652782419&idorvanity=197491484165115

1929 Essex Trio promo shot in front of Pasadena's city hall





https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10227712378894071&set=gm.1494266071154310&idorvanity=197491484165115

stored for 38yrs, '66 Belvedere II convertible 273 3sp on column





Friday, March 15, 2024

Ever heard about the last vehicle Norm Grabowski made? The Frish Fish Nash, which started out as a roadster!










dirt road go carting at the 1960 International Grand Prix De Tecate, A 100 Mile Endurance Event... which is a 100 laps of a one mile city street route. Probably a LOT of fun. (I've been to Tecate, it's so much nicer and quieter than TiJuana)



see the article on it at https://www.ebay.com/itm/302497904370

almost 100 journalists have been murdered by the Israeli military, clearly, concerned that the news would report facts from the front line of the Israel/Palestine war detrimental to the goodwill Israel had internationally when retaliating against the Hamas attack and kidnapping

An Israeli tank that killed a Reuters journalist and wounded six others in Lebanon last year fired two 120mm rounds at a group of “clearly identifiable journalists” in violation of international law, a UN investigation has found.

The investigation by the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil), seen by Reuters, said its personnel did not record any exchange of fire across the border between Israel and Lebanon for more than 40 minutes before the tank opened fire, killing Issam Abdallah, a 37-year-old video journalist.

The UN (clearly toothless and unable to mount a military strength capable of enforcing international law) found Israel guilty of the war crime of firing on civilians

However, the UN isn't going to do a thing about it post conviction. 

Just like nothing was done when Israel destroyed the USS Liberty. 


The USS Liberty incident was an attack on a United States Navy technical research ship (spy ship), an attack that would leave 34 Americans dead and 171 wounded, by Israeli aircraft and Israeli torpedo boats, on 8 June 1967, at about 2pm local time

The USS Liberty was engaged in peaceful activities in international waters. At the time of the attack, the U.S.S Liberty was flying the American flag, and its identification was clearly indicated in large white letters and numerals on its hull. It was broad daylight and the weather conditions were excellent.

The USS Liberty was an NSA spy ship and though the United States refused to back Israel in the 6 day war, it was eavesdropping on Israeli military communications during the war. According to Bamford, over the course of Israel’s remarkable territorial acquisition and military victory, it allegedly committed a war crime by slaughtering Egyptian prisoners of war in the city of El Arish in the northern Sinai.

Israeli forces jammed the Liberty's antennas and communication channels, took out the four . 50-caliber machine guns on board, and reportedly shot at life rafts and crew members as they attempted to evacuate the vessel.

The U.S.S. Liberty was peacefully engaged, posed no threat whatsoever to the torpedo boats or aircraft.

ABC’s Nightline interviewed survivors decades after the attack, the results of which never aired. Presumably because interested parties didn’t want unsavory information about Israel broadcast on mainstream American television 

Over 50 years later, the NSA maintains the federal security classification of the details, and refuses to comment on, or release information about the murdered Americans. 

The claim by Israel is that it's aircraft and torpedo boats mistook the American spy ship for an Egyptian freighter. No explanation for why it would attack a freighter.... 

The Liberty Veterans Association, an organization comprised of survivors of the 1967 attack, has called for a robust and transparent investigation into the incident for decades, to no avail.

If you'll indulge me, please, stand, remove your hats, and begin the slow clap,... a hero walks among us... a Michigan trucker was found guilty of setting Swift Transportation trailers on fire! A Detroit-area man set fires across the country in ‘rampage of retaliation’ against Swift, US attorney says!









A Michigan truck driver accused of being a serial arsonist responsible for setting blazes across the country has been found guilty in California for setting Swift Transportation equipment on fire as part of a personal vendetta against the company.

Jurors on Tuesday found Viorel Pricop, 66, of Allen Park in metropolitan Detroit, guilty of six counts of arson of vehicle or property in interstate commerce after a 16-day trial. Investigators said Pricop, who was charged in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California in December 2022, set fire to at least 24 semi-trailers belonging to Swift Transportation in eight states after he was convicted in 2018 for transporting stolen cargo. That earlier case stemmed from an investigation conducted by Swift.

The California fires occurred in San Bernardino and Riverside counties from December 2021 to September 2022, prosecutors said. Pricop is accused of setting the other fires in New Mexico, Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas and Alabama, mostly along Interstates 10 and 40 from June 2020 to March 2022, charging documents say. Drivers were sometimes asleep in their trucks when the fires were set, but no injuries were reported. Pricop faces federal charges in other states.

Swift Transportation, based in Arizona, told investigators this number of fires had never occurred in company history, prompting company officials to hire fire investigation consultants to determine the cause. Investigators uncovered a pattern of similar methods used to light the trailers on fire, including where the fires began on the vehicles and the times they were set, prosecutors said.

Pricop “went on a rampage of retaliation” against Swift Transportation, which linked a 2015 theft to Pricop, said U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada. Swift utilized bait trailers containing tracking devices to catch thieves following a series of thefts. Company investigators traced stolen boxes to a storage facility in Michigan, leading to Pricop’s arrest. 

He was convicted in 2018 for a tax offense and for transportation of stolen goods, which stemmed from the Swift investigation. His supervised release ended in June 2019, about a year before the Swift equipment fires began, prosecutors said.


OK, when you read the facts (that's why I included them) he's not such a good guy... but, at a glance the headlines looked like he was trying to save us from the Swift trucking collisions, crashes, smashes, flips, wrong ways, etc. (it's been years since that was a weekly post, but it was epic)