2020 New Random Pics

[GH85Carrera]

[dafischer]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Just why?

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by dafischer

Just why?

easier to lift his bicycle onto his bike rack ?

Edited: Nope.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by dafischer

Just why?

Fashion. A very stupid fashion.

When I was in high school the guys that drove American muscle cars all had the rear end jacked up. They all claimed it was for weight transfer needed with the big powerful engines. One of my buddies used to carry a yardstick and a copy of the law in his car. He got pulled over all the time, and he would prove to the cop he was 1/2 inch below the maximum allowed by law. I had a 1960 VW bug and never got pulled over.


A child's car seat from the 1940s

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

When we bought the house in SC, we had some work done on the house. One of the young men showed up in a truck with the "Carolina Squat". Nicest kid you could imagine. I had never seen the mod before.

https://www.hotcars.com/carolina-squat-what-it-is-where-come-from/

Something like the below. Not my truck, not my money but...

[Gretch]

That has to be the singularly most retarded modification I have ever seen done to a road vehicle........utterly useless, and dangerous to boot.

Anyone driving one of those would be disqualified from being hired because "stupid"........ no other evidence required.

[GH85Carrera]

STILL the fastest! Pete Knight flew the modified X-15A-2 to its maximum speed of Mach 6.7 or 4,520 mph, still the fastest anyone has ever flown an aircraft. Shock waves from the record-breaking speed resulted in considerable heat damage to the aircraft and the X-15A-2 never flew again.
October 3rd, 1967, "Pete" Knight gave that Ol' Mach Demon the best chase it ever had! A speed record that still stands to this date. Knight also became one of only five pilots to earn their Astronaut Wings by flying an airplane to an altitude over 280,500 feet.

[Steve Carlton]

A great scene from A Clockwork Orange. "A bit cold and pointless, isn't it my lovely." LOL

[A930Rocket]

Originally Posted by dafischer

Just why?

Carolina lean! 🙄

[tdw28210]

Originally Posted by A930Rocket

Carolina lean! 🙄

It's illegal due to laws passed last year, but you still see it.

[A930Rocket]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

I’m seeing this more and more, ducks or something similar on the dashboard of jeeps. What does it mean?

[GH85Carrera]

A portable television concept created in 1967.

[flatbutt]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

[GH85Carrera]

[GH85Carrera]

A milkman working his route during the London blitz 1940.
Imagine that with today's workers.

[flatbutt]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Well....

[GH85Carrera]

On 2 October 1952: The Big Ugly Fat Fu#ker (BUFF) took to the skies for the very first time. The Boeing XB-52 Stratofortress prototype, left Boeing Field, Seattle, Washington, with the famed Dash 80 aerobatic test pilot, Alvin M. “Tex” Johnston at the controls.
Amazingly, all these years later, The BUFF is still flying...
Here is a BUFF fact that many of you didn't know; The Buff is even credited with three air to air kills during the Viet Nam war, thanks to the B-52D tail gunners who took down three MiG-21 Fishbeds when their aircraft came under attack.




Leola King, America’s first female traffic cop, 1918.

[devodave]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

On 2 October 1952: The Big Ugly Fat Fu#ker (BUFF) took to the skies for the very first time. The Boeing XB-52 Stratofortress prototype, left Boeing Field, Seattle, Washington, with the famed Dash 80 aerobatic test pilot, Alvin M. “Tex” Johnston at the controls.
Amazingly, all these years later, The BUFF is still flying...
Here is a BUFF fact that many of you didn't know; The Buff is even credited with three air to air kills during the Viet Nam war, thanks to the B-52D tail gunners who took down three MiG-21 Fishbeds when their aircraft came under attack.

Wow that's even older than the SSN-571 Nautilus, commissioned in 1954 and decommissioned in 1980!

[Steve Carlton]

The original Nautilus was created in 1870- and with atomic power!

[GH85Carrera]

The BUFF my well be in service for 100 years!

There are B-52 that the new pilot sits down in the left seat to be the pilot in command, and they know their father and their grandfather, flew that very same airplane! Imagine, flying a weapon of war for the most powerful military on the planet, and knowing grandpa sat in the same seat, and flew that same airplane. And there is no replacement in the works for the BUFF.





"I was probably 5 or 6 years old before I realized that all kids weren't in movies."
Spanky McFarland's famous double and triple-takes were taught to him by Stan Laurel, while a lot of his mannerisms (rolling of eyes, hands on hips, and his trademark exasperated expression) were inspired by Oliver Hardy. He, Laurel and Hardy were working together, but in different shorts, that were produced and directed by Hal Roach.
McFarland's nickname "Spanky" is erroneously said to have arisen from warnings by his mother not to misbehave during one of the initial discussions with Hal Roach in his office. As the story goes, he had a habit of reaching out and grabbing things, and on doing so his mother Virginia would say, "Spanky, spanky, mustn't touch!" While this story has considerable folksy appeal, Spanky himself contradicted the tale, saying that the name was given by a Los Angeles newspaper reporter. The term "a spanky child" was late 19th century–early 20th century slang for an intelligent, gifted toddler.
In the mid-1950s, when the "Our Gang" comedies were sweeping the nation on TV, McFarland hosted an afternoon children's show, "The Spanky Show," on KOTV television in Tulsa, Oklahoma (see below). The show included a studio audience and appearances by other celebrities such as James Arness. Set against the backdrop of a makeshift kids' clubhouse, Spanky entertained and informed his studio audiences and the viewers at home with games, stories, craftmaking, hobbies, comedy skits, informational segments, and interviews with guest performers, personalities, and the children in the studio audience in between the reruns of "The Little Rascals" film comedies. Station executives prevented McFarland from developing and expanding the show's format, and, by 1960, McFarland had quit the show.
After that stint, he continued at odd jobs: selling wine, operating a restaurant and night club, and selling appliances, electronics, and furniture. He was selling for Philco-Ford Corporation, where he advanced to national sales training director. During this time, McFarland continued to make personal appearances and cameo roles in films and television.
During the 1990s, after his self-described "semi-retirement," Spanky lent his name and celebrity to help raise money for charities, primarily by participating in golf tournaments. Spanky also had his own namesake charity golf classic for 16 years, held in Marion, Indiana. He also traveled the country doing speaking engagements and lectured about his acting career.






A very large organ pipe cactus in Baja California, Mexico. 1895