Just A Car Guy
Cool things with wheels since 2006
Sunday, April 28, 2024
For Pixar Fest 2024, 50 Pizza Planet trucks have been hidden around Disneyland Resort, because the Pizza Planet truck is a well-known to appear as an Easter egg in every Pixar film.
I love Pizar movies, and easter eggs (remember all the Mopar ones on Jeeps and Mopars? https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/easter%20eggs )
Jaguar’s second E-type prototype was E2A, and someone tried to make a recreation of it, but gave up, and it sat in a San Diego garage for 37 years
above, the original. Below.. not. But with some money, it could look like it
the seller wants 90k
Six Flags Over Texas is making plans to replace the historic Chaparral Antique Cars with a tacky jurassic safari.
Drivers have full control over the acceleration and steering along with a guide rail that prevents guests from taking the cars off course.
The cars originally had tops to them until they were removed in the early 1970s, before being re-added again in the 1980s and finally removed again.
The ride was initially themed on the Chaparral Motoring Company of Cleburne, Texas, which produced Automobiles introduced in 1911.
The ride was initially themed on the Chaparral Motoring Company of Cleburne, Texas, which produced Automobiles introduced in 1911.
There are 14 scale-model Chaparrals that visitors can drive on a 1/3rd mile old-style "highway." Powered by one-cylinder gasoline motors, the three-quarter size Chaps whizzed along at seven miles an hour.
24 years ago, a South Bend, Indiana, officer was dispatched to an apartment building common hallway to rescue an abandoned baby in a box.
"I went back with a teddy bear," Eyster said. "Just a symbol to let everyone that walked past know that he was cared about."
For more than two decades, Eyster wondered what became of that boy.
Until just a few weeks ago, when Eyster got a phone call from a fellow officer, who asked Eyster if remembered the case of the baby left in the carboard box.
"And he (the officer) said, 'he's (the baby) sitting next to me, he's my rookie,'" Eyster recounted.
The rookie in question was Matthew Hegedus-Stewart, the baby in the box. After his rescue, he was placed for adoption. He always knew he had been left in a box, but only connected the dots to Eyster after joining the department.
Today, Hegedus-Stewart wears the same uniform Eyster did and patrols the same neighborhood.
"And he (the officer) said, 'he's (the baby) sitting next to me, he's my rookie,'" Eyster recounted.
The rookie in question was Matthew Hegedus-Stewart, the baby in the box. After his rescue, he was placed for adoption. He always knew he had been left in a box, but only connected the dots to Eyster after joining the department.
Today, Hegedus-Stewart wears the same uniform Eyster did and patrols the same neighborhood.
When Royal Air Force pilots discovered chocolate-coated marshmallow teacakes expanded at high altitudes, they became “the subject of some rather unscientific in-flight experiments” in the 1950s.
Many noted that, despite the extreme physical effects, the expansion didn’t compromise the taste.
But the expanding teacakes’ fame was short-lived. After a period of marshmallow fever aboard the V-Bombers departing from Gaydon air base, an explosion put a stop to the fun.
During the summer of 1965, a captain and student pilot forgot they had placed unwrapped teacakes above their instrument panels. When the captain pulled an emergency depressurizing switch during a training mission, the treats erupted.
Shards of chocolate and marshmallow hit the windshield, flight controls, and the mens’ uniforms. Shortly thereafter, the RAF put marshmallows on their no-fly list.
Jeremy Dickinson's exhibit opened yesterday at the GBS Fine Art Gallery, 13 Sadler Street, Wells, UK
Saturday, April 27, 2024
the coolest thing that happened today? I got to help push a car across an intersection... you know how RARE that is anymore? A Mopar, a 68 Charger, a car a lot like my 69 Coronet R/T
I happened to be getting gas at the intersection, and looked up to the see Charger sitting in a very strange way... do you know how long it's been since I've seen a car dead in an intersection? Over a decade I think
So, I took a couple photos on the way over to help push, and one photo after he got it started again... the carb needs a rebuild, idle is about 100 rpm too low, and the gas tank seems to be leaking.
But a bit of starter fluid, and it fired right upthis is something coincidental... ANOTHER Austin Healey 3000 in a movie this month alone...
this was in the 1st transformers movie... a simple easy pleasure to watch
If you even think of watching it, remember, the amazing casting of John Turturro, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, a fun scene with Bernie Mac as a used car salesman, and the perfect casting of young Shia Lebouf
Before I forget, the casting in Transformers Dark Side of the Moon is equally terrific, Buzz Aldrin in a cameo, Ken Jeong as a crazy guy, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, and one of the best actors at playing a funny crazy guy, Alan Tudyk... and voicing Megatron is Hugo Weaving, and Leonard Nimoy voiced Sentinel Prime
but one thing struck me as very off... why the hell did they have the line about a high rise double pumper under the hood of the old Camaro Bumble Bee (before he switched to new Camaro) and then, they show THIS under the hood:
What moron wrote the line for the Mikaela character: "Whoa, nice headers. You've got a high-rise double-pump carburetor. That's pretty impressive, Sam"
OR was it simply that instead of showing a typical carb'd Chev 350, someone screwed up and used the above instead, but... still, high rise, everyone knows that the intakes are high rises, and fuel injectors are not built like a Holley carb, the 750 double pumper.
Karen, the New York DA who will see you next Tuesday, blew a stop sign, did 55 in a 35, and refused to stop for cops, then called the police chief to complain about the “a–hole” officer who pursued her home
She gets on the phone and calls Webster Chief of Police Dennis Kohlmeier and asks him “can you please tell them to leave me alone?”
Doorley refuses to step outside her garage to speak with officers. She dismissively hands the cop the phone to speak with the chief and tells him “just go away.” The officer can be heard explaining what happened on the phone.
She then storms inside the house against the officer’s orders.
He explains that he’s trying to conduct a traffic stop, and she shoots back “I know the law better than you,” footage shows.
“What is it your so against me? I’m doing my job. You say you’re a DA?” the cop asks at one point.
“I am THE DA,” she emphatically snaps back, and fetches her badge out of her car as she calls him an “a–hole.”
At one point the officer asks her why she was going so fast she responded that she “didn’t feel like stopping on Phillips Road at 5:30,” to which the officer responded, “That’s not your choice; you know that.”
“What do you want us to do, not do our jobs because it’s you?” the officer then asks Doorley.
“That’s not a traffic ticket; that’s an arrestable offense, Sandra. You know this,” the cop says.
There you are, great cops doing their job, unlike the following 3 news items. I post both! There are just far fewer great cop stories in the news for obvious reasons
Follow up on the Indiana Sherriff posted about 2 weeks ago, among all the other 24 felony charges against the corrupt POS (perfectly ordinary Sherriff)
Noel is charged with 25 felonies. He’s pleaded not guilty. His wife and daughter also face felony charges of their own related to their spending on credit cards. They’ve also pleaded not guilty. The Noel’s spent $3,5 million on credit cards.
Noel is still sitting in jail after being found in contempt of court earlier this month and sentenced to 60 days in the Scott County Jail.
In one instance, Noel allegedly stole money from the fire department, and transferred money into his deceased brother's estate, only to write a check from that account on the same day to buy a 1969 Road Runner.
State police also accuse Noel of lying on car titles, altering the purchase amounts and buying and selling dates.
Someone applied for duplicate titles for the cars just two weeks ago, catching the attention of investigators.
Noel is facing 25 charges for theft, tax evasion, public corruption, ghost employment and more.
https://www.wdrb.com/news/crime-reports/isp-seizes-classic-cars-from-property-of-former-sheriff-jamey-noel-accused-of-buying-them/article_7098399a-043d-11ef-9d9e-8337d60a8770.htmlIn one instance, Noel allegedly stole money from the fire department, and transferred money into his deceased brother's estate, only to write a check from that account on the same day to buy a 1969 Road Runner.
State police also accuse Noel of lying on car titles, altering the purchase amounts and buying and selling dates.
Someone applied for duplicate titles for the cars just two weeks ago, catching the attention of investigators.
Noel is facing 25 charges for theft, tax evasion, public corruption, ghost employment and more.
huh... how about that, what a shocking surprise, another Riverside Country Sherriff's Deputy was busted by DEA for trafficing million of dollars in meth, fentanyl, and cocaine while helping the Sinaloa cartel. Anyone else expect to see that annually at least?
The agents and Riverside police provided their investigative leads to the Riverside County Sheriff's Department and ultimately assisted in the arrest of the deputy while he was allegedly in possession of 104 pounds of fentanyl pills.
Nice to know the post office has drug sniffing equipment that isn't being used in the Los Angeles area, huh?
Deputy Rojas, of Houston area, Harris County precinct 4, in Texas was arrested a month ago (news is REALLY slow on cops that get busted for doing stupid shit they arrest anyone else for, and the police try to cover it up, seriously - they always do) busted racing a Camaro on the freeway – in full uniform, in his Mustang
Rojas' vehicle and a black Chevrolet Camaro were pacing next to each other on the Sam Houston Parkway before they accelerated and surpassed 100 mph.
Rojas was pulled over by deputies late Friday night after allegedly racing down the Sam Houston Tollway, according to senior deputy Thomas Gilliland, spokesman for the sheriff’s office
It was the deputy’s second arrest on reckless driving-related charges since 2021. Rojas was a Harris County sheriff's deputy in the detentions dept at the time of that prior arrest and was fired as a result, the sheriff's office confirmed. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jose-rojas-76a30b96/
Sadly, it looks like a great website of photographic variety has quit posting.
using a big hydraulic press, and a pie of railroad rail... to straighten a bent frame. Skip the first two minutes of the video, they are just a quick preview of the whole thing. Watch at 1.5 speed or faster
this video shows the hydraulic press used to straighten out the frame, unlike the previous videos I've posted where it was all hammer work
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