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[Racerbvd]

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by Racerbvd

Well obviously you can use your own property any time you want without the DMV or any sort of drivers license... Nobody can stop you from driving your car around in your garden or drive way or garage..

The permission granted is not to use your own property, but to it use your property on roads you do not own.



But can they actually hit anything at a decent distance

[JackDidley]

[Steve Carlton]

[GH85Carrera]

Destroyed synthetic oil plant and harbor facilities, Harburg, Germany, 1945


Dead horses surround the damaged Trostle House, results of the Battle of Gettysburg, in July of 1863. Union general Major General Daniel Sickles used the farmhouse as a headquarters and Union and Confederate troops fought among the farm buildings during the fierce battle.


This is an about 1930s real photo postcard of Oatman, Arizona by Frashers Fotos.


Ye. Right and all Foosed up.


1941 photo of Route 66 on Main St., Edwardsville, Illinois.

[masraum]

Counting from the left, we've got #4 and #5 (assemble with my grandson).

I'll have to find #1.

[john70t]

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

This is an about 1930s real photo postcard of Oatman, Arizona by Frashers Fotos.

I am taking my best friend on a road trip either later this year or next year. He has never spent any time in the rural west.

I am keeping a log of the small towns Glen is posting...Oatman, AZ is now on the list!

Trostle House still there.

[john70t]

Watched a history doc blip and i guess it was the space set and cars that saved the little Lego family business from bankruptcy at one point just when their patent had run out and five other copies on the market.

Oh, and when that weird Star Wars movie came out, all the big companies said "No". Kenner made a deal for 95% royalties.
The Toys That Made Us https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7053920/

[GH85Carrera]

Hauling wood using oxen power. Somewhere in California. c.1892.


America was facing the prospect of a serious meat shortage in 1910. The rapidly growing population was outpacing the country’s ability to raise meat animals. Techniques for the mass production of hogs and chickens had not yet been invented. Overgrazing was destroying pastureland and the number of beef cattle in the country was falling by a million per year, as beef prices soared. It seemed that the country couldn’t continue to rely on its dwindling supply beef cattle. What then to do?
Frederick Russell Burnham, a then-famous adventurer, mercenary, and explorer had an idea, and he persuaded Congressman Robert Foligny Broussard of Louisiana of its wisdom. The idea? To import hippopotamuses to the swampy Gulf coast and raise them for food.
Burnham’s idea was particularly attractive to Broussard, a Cajun planter who saw hippos as the potential solution to a problem plaguing his state. In 1884 Japanese delegates to an international cotton exposition had brought water hyacinths from their country to distribute as gifts. By 1910 the hyacinths were clogging Louisiana rivers, destroying the livelihoods of fishermen and impeding or blocking river navigation. Broussard imagined herds of hippos eating up the hated hyacinths, while simultaneously ending the nation’s meat shortage and bringing wealth to hippo ranchers. It seemed to him to be a win-win.
So, Broussard introduced a bill in Congress for the importation of hippopotamuses, and the proposal was met with acclaim. The New York Times called the idea “practical and timely.” Newspapers around the country enthusiastically endorsed it. President Teddy Roosevelt gave it his hearty approval. According to The Washington Post, it was “a question of only a very few years now when large shipments of hippos will be made to America.”
But as much as Americans loved meat, convincing them to eat hippos would not be an easy task. Then, as now, Americans almost exclusively ate only four animals, imported originally from Europe—cattle, pigs, sheep and poultry, with beef being the predominant meat by far in 1910. Undeterred, a New York Times editorial insisted that hippo meat was tasty and should be called “lake cow bacon.” The general public remained skeptical.
Alas, Broussard’s vision of hippopotamus herds grazing happily on hyacinth flowers in the swamps of Louisiana was not to be, and there would be no hippo steaks on American dinner plates. The Department of Agriculture never bought into the notion, insisting that the solution to the meat shortage was simply to drain the swamps and turn them into grass pastures suitable for beef cattle—a proposal that had the advantage of not requiring Americans to acquire a taste for hippo meat. No hippopotamuses were ever imported to the U.S. and there were never any hippo ranches in the Gulf states.
Congressman Robert Broussard introduced House Bill 23261, to appropriate $250,000 for the importation of hippopotamuses into the United States, on March 24, 1910, one hundred twelve years ago today.
Today the state of Louisiana spends over $2 million per year spraying herbicides on water hyacinth.


Japanese Battleship Haruna sunk in shallow water near Kure Japan - September 1945
Haruna was sunk by planes from USN Task Force 38 on July 28, 1945
LIFE Magazine Archives - George Silk Photographer




Preparing the place from which Japan’s end will come. In July of 1944, the crew of a Grumman Avenger of the United States Navy flies past the Japanese-held Ushi Point Airfield, which they have just attacked on the island of Tinian in the Marianas chain. The black plumes of smoke from burning Japanese aircraft signal the coming wreckage of the Japanese empire and homeland. As soon as the US Marines had secured the field, Navy Seabee construction battalions began work on constructing an airfield capable of B-29 Superfortress operations. A year after this photo was taken, a B-29 named Enola Gay would take off from here, bound for a city hardly anyone had heard of —Hiroshima. A week later, another B-29 named Bockscar also lifted off from this place, bound for Nagasaki.

[Racerbvd]

[Jolly Amaranto]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Preparing the place from which Japan’s end will come. In July of 1944, the crew of a Grumman Avenger of the United States Navy flies past the Japanese-held Ushi Point Airfield, which they have just attacked on the island of Tinian in the Marianas chain. The black plumes of smoke from burning Japanese aircraft signal the coming wreckage of the Japanese empire and homeland. As soon as the US Marines had secured the field, Navy Seabee construction battalions began work on constructing an airfield capable of B-29 Superfortress operations. A year after this photo was taken, a B-29 named Enola Gay would take off from here, bound for a city hardly anyone had heard of —Hiroshima. A week later, another B-29 named Bockscar also lifted off from this place, bound for Nagasaki.

From a visit in June 1967.

[IROC]

Originally Posted by masraum

My son just built the Land Rover above... Very detailed, needless to say. Working front and rear differentials, working transmission, winch, steering, suspension, etc. Here's the chassis before the bodywork:

[GH85Carrera]

Complete Equipment Schedule (CES) for the AMX10-RC laid out. Photo credit The Challenger




Japanese Battleship Haruna sunk in shallow water near Kure Japan - September 1945
Haruna was sunk by planes from USN Task Force 38 on July 28, 1945
LIFE Magazine Archives - George Silk Photographer


23 Mar 1951 – 2nd and 4th Ranger Companies, as part of the 187th ARCT, conducted a combat jump, Munson-Ni, Korea.
Operation Tomahawk was an airborne military operation by the 187th Regimental Combat Team (RCT) on 23 March 1951 at Munsan-ni as part of Operation Courageous in the Korean War. Operation Courageous was designed to trap large numbers of Chinese and North Korean troops between the Han and Imjin Rivers north of Seoul, opposite the South Korean I Corps.
Operation Tomahawk was the other half of the plan. This operation was designed to drop the 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team about 30 kilometers (19 mi) north of the then-current front line. They did so, parachuting from over a hundred C-119 Flying Boxcar transport aircraft.
One hundred twenty C-119s and C-46s dropped 3,437 paratroopers of the 187th Regimental Combat Team, the 2nd and 4th Ranger Companies, and 12 officers and men of the 60th Indian Parachute Field Ambulance near Munsan-ni in the second-largest airborne operation of the war.


This photo, taken on May 31, 1945, in Okinawa, Japan, shows Lt Richard Jones of Los Angeles, California, feeding two Japanese children who were hiding in an abandoned tomb, 50 yards from the frontline. This true American hero survived the war. He passed away on March 23, 2004, at the age of 89.

[rcooled]

Stealing the moon...

[GH85Carrera]

A Civil Servant with a manually operated traffic signal, Philadelphia, 1922.


Hidden from public view is this very special door. It is probably the second oldest door in Britain. Tree ring dating shows the tree was cut down in 1080 making it close to 950 years old. How amazing is that?!


White Plains, Greene County, Georgia. Rest period in school. Photo by Jack Delano, 1941


171 years ago, Monday, March 24, 1851, popular Texas Governor James Stephen “Big Jim” Hogg (1851-1906) was born near the town of Rusk in Cherokee County, Texas.
In 1866, when Jim Hogg was around 15 years old, he went to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to study. Upon his return to Texas, he became a printer’s devil for the Rusk Chronicle newspaper. In 1867, Hogg walked the 160 miles from Rusk to Cleburne, where he obtained work at the Cleburne Chronicle; however, the Cleburne Chronicle building soon burned down, after which Hogg returned to East Texas where he worked as a farm hand for several years whilst studying law. He later ran the Longview News & founded the Quitman News.
In 1886, Hogg was elected as Attorney General of the State of Texas. In 1890, he was elected Governor of Texas, serving until 1895.
Hogg had purchased land for his family in the belief that oil would be discovered on the land. Shortly after his death, oil was indeed discovered & his children became instant millionaires, including his daughter the legendary Texan philanthropist Ima Hogg (1882-1975).
According to legend, Big Jim Hogg’s daughter Ima Hogg, who had no middle name, had a sister named “Ura Hogg,” but in fact, she had no sister -- only brothers. The rumor is believed to have been started by Jim Hogg himself during his gubernatorial campaign when he often travelled with Ima & a friend of hers, & would jokingly introduce the two as Ima Hogg & Ura Hogg.
Note: Jim Hogg’s daughter Ima was named after the heroine in “The Fate of Marvin,” an epic poem written in 1873 by her uncle Thomas Elisha Hogg (1842-1880).
Jim Hogg County near the Southern tip of Texas is named in honor of Governor Hogg.
The undated photograph depicts the visage of Texas Governor Big Jim Hogg with the Texas State Capitol Building & the Governor’s Mansion in the background -- from an illustration on the label of a box of “Jim Hogg Cigars.”171 years ago, Monday, March 24, 1851, popular Texas Governor James Stephen “Big Jim” Hogg (1851-1906) was born near the town of Rusk in Cherokee County, Texas.
In 1866, when Jim Hogg was around 15 years old, he went to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to study. Upon his return to Texas, he became a printer’s devil for the Rusk Chronicle newspaper. In 1867, Hogg walked the 160 miles from Rusk to Cleburne, where he obtained work at the Cleburne Chronicle; however, the Cleburne Chronicle building soon burned down, after which Hogg returned to East Texas where he worked as a farm hand for several years whilst studying law. He later ran the Longview News & founded the Quitman News.
In 1886, Hogg was elected as Attorney General of the State of Texas. In 1890, he was elected Governor of Texas, serving until 1895.
Hogg had purchased land for his family in the belief that oil would be discovered on the land. Shortly after his death, oil was indeed discovered & his children became instant millionaires, including his daughter the legendary Texan philanthropist Ima Hogg (1882-1975).
According to legend, Big Jim Hogg’s daughter Ima Hogg, who had no middle name, had a sister named “Ura Hogg,” but in fact, she had no sister -- only brothers. The rumor is believed to have been started by Jim Hogg himself during his gubernatorial campaign when he often travelled with Ima & a friend of hers, & would jokingly introduce the two as Ima Hogg & Ura Hogg.
Note: Jim Hogg’s daughter Ima was named after the heroine in “The Fate of Marvin,” an epic poem written in 1873 by her uncle Thomas Elisha Hogg (1842-1880).
Jim Hogg County near the Southern tip of Texas is named in honor of Governor Hogg.
The undated photograph depicts the visage of Texas Governor Big Jim Hogg with the Texas State Capitol Building & the Governor’s Mansion in the background -- from an illustration on the label of a box of “Jim Hogg Cigars.”

[flipper35]

Originally Posted by JackDidley

Stijn, my 12 year old just ordered two die cast, one male, one female.

Jack, my wife was only interested in my car. She drove it our first time out together.

Not mine, but similar.

[GH85Carrera]

Kokomo, Colorado was a major boom town that peaked with around 10,000 residents in 1881. Ultimately the town was abandoned and covered by the tailings of the nearby Climax mine.




The Cliffs of Moher are upright sea cliffs running along the western coast of Ireland for about 14 km (9 miles) in County Clare. Their maximum height over the Atlantic Ocean reaches 214 m


The Monkeemobile in front of Dean Jeffries Automotive Styling located at 3077 Cahuenga Boulevard, ca. 1967. Dean Jeffries was a car customizer, designer and painter and was considered to be one of the pre-eminent artists of American racecar and hot-rod culture.
After learning to pinstripe while stationed in Germany with the U.S. Army during the Korean War, Dean worked alongside Kenneth “Von Dutch” Howard and at Barris Kustom before opening Dean Jeffries Automotive Styling. He earned a reputation for outrageous striping and flame paint jobs, and for building show-stopping customs like the ’64 Oakland Roadster Show-winning Mantaray. He also did quite a bit of work in film, first building TV and movie cars and later becoming a stuntman and stunt coordinator.

[asphaltgambler]

Interesting note with the first Monkeymobile was it had a functional supercharger and when either Micky, or Peter went for a test drive is scared the crap out of him and promptly requested that the power be turned waaay down. So off came the real setup and back on was just the blower case and fake injection hiding a single 4bbl underneath.

[GH85Carrera]