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"Good brakes," Marge casually texted to her husband. "Certainly not great brakes."

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Originally Posted by Steve Carlton (Post 12081318)

"Good brakes," Marge casually texted to her husband. "Certainly not great brakes."

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Is that Ken Miles' car at riverside?
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Originally Posted by red 928 (Post 12081989)

Is that Ken Miles' car at riverside?
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No, he was driving a prototype of the next gen GT code named the J car. The side scoops, if they were there at all, were different. I worked at the fiberglass factory where the first bodies were built. I may have been on the one that crashed, but I was a finisher not a laminator. I was 18. The rear body came off at Riverside at the end of the straight.

We had a real GT40 on the factory floor. I don't know why, the cars were different at least body wise. It wasn't there long.

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Cool story, Zeke! Thanks for sharing.

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Space shuttle Endeavour is seen inside the Mate-Demate Device, or MDD, at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, or SCA, is seen on the ramp. The SCA will carry Endeavour to Los Angeles where it will be placed on public display. 2012-09-14

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Space shuttle Endeavour is seen inside the Mate-Demate Device, or MDD, at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, or SCA, is seen on the ramp. The SCA will carry Endeavour to Los Angeles where it will be placed on public display. 2012-09-14

Stenciled on one of the aft mounts on the 747. Yes, this is really there.

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One of my more unusual jobs in AOG was to design tooling to first disassemble and then reassemble one of these aircraft (N905NA) for transport and display at Space Center Houston. Wings were removed so that it could be trailered down a public roadway. Here is where it sits today, with a mockup of the space shuttle Independence resting on top:

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Photoshop (look at her waist) but funny.

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I feel a bit robbed that we only have a "mock-up" of the shuttle. Although, since it's sitting outside a mock-up is adequate. You'd think the location of mission control might get the real thing. But we don't have a museum to put it in or anything like that so....

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Photoshop (look at her waist) but funny.

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Maybe, but if her top is a striped blouse or whatever that top is called, it might be real. The top just wraps around her waist. It would be easy to add the text with Photoshop and not change anything but the butt area.

Not my photo, I just post em.

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Nope nope nope.

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KWAJALEIN.
A water distillation unit is unloaded from a LST (Landing Ship Tank) at the dock area on Kwajalein, Marshall Islands. The equipment was transferred from Tarawa.
5 April 1944. (N.A.)

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Originally Posted by Por_sha911 (Post 12082281)

Photoshop (look at her waist) but funny.

She's wearing a mostly white wrap around shirt that's causing an optical illusion. Her waist in the photo is wider than it initially appears.

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The Nakatomi tower that was blown up in Die Hard is a bit smaller than I remember. ;)

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Perch (APSS-313) on 13 February 1950. She appears to be getting ready to pass a tow line. (NavSource)

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Imagine hearing those grandparents talk about getting to school.

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1927 at NAS Lakehurst, NJ, a sudden shift in the weather lifted the tail of the rigid airship USS Los Angeles
This resulted in the unique sight of the 658-foot long airship standing on its nose.

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At least the platform will break his fall.

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California, 1935...

American River camp, Sacramento. Home of Tennessee family, now migratory workers. Seven in family, came to California July 1935, following relatives who had come in 1933. Father was a coal miner in Tennessee. Reason for coming to California. "Our neighbors were coming. We only got one or two days work a week (relief.) Thought we could make it better here." Since arrival family has worked in walnuts, tomatoes, peaches, and the mother has worked in a fruit cannery...

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If you always wondered what the inside of the old service stations and garages looked like. Back then most of the Route 66 traffic depended on the service station to repair their car and get them back on the road. There were very few dealer garages along the way and no specialized shops like we have today. This photo from August 1937 is not on Route 66 but probably is an excellent representative of the way it was in the average service station. This photo has excellent resolution!