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[masraum]

Originally Posted by oldE

I can't help but think "carter" is an autocorrect for "cracked part".

In '84 I ran over a piece of exhaust which fell off the car ahead. It tumbled and struck the diesel fuel tank on my Rabbit. We were headed for the ferry and just before we boarded, I advised the loadmaster we had a leak. He said " No problem. Just identify your car to the deck crew. "
One of the crew grabbed a square of cardboard and a bar of Ivory soap. Lying on the cardboard, he reached under and rubbed the soap on the weeping fissure in the front of the tank and the leak stopped. It took a month before the replacement tank could be installed but it never leaked a drop in that time.

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Les

That's fascinating! And it supports the story.

back to the story, I would have thought that anything on the motor would have been too hot. I'd assume soap would soften and melt at temp like a wax. Muy interesante!

I tried some dawn, but it didn't stop my leak!

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by Baz

The Great Santini (Bull Meechum) ?

Bull Meechum was a Marine, Marines never bought Tomcats. The great Santina flew in a Phantom.

[daepp]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Government Socialist/Socialist housing - brutalism is such an apt term.

You see this and you have to wonder why anyone would ever want to live under such political systems...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalist_architecture

[GH85Carrera]

When the sky turns green, it is gonna hail! It is a weird experience to see the world turn bright green. And yes, it really turns green.


This is an Apartment Steamed Radiator with a built in food warmer, 1890s, New York City


Engine testing - Packard auto plant - Detroit. Photo by Bernard Hoffman, LIFE magazine, 1941.






Kiwis lay the largest egg in relation to their body size of any species of bird in the world. It can weigh as much as 450 g: if we compare that proportion to humans, it would mean giving birth to a fully grown 4 year old kid.

[BoxsterSteve]

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Uncanny resemblance?

[GH85Carrera]

I hear someday soon they will update the one street department truck to all electric.

[Steve Carlton]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Shirley you must be joking!

[GH85Carrera]

Bluetooth Differential???








Stone Columns, Crowley Lake, California, USA


The Black Gate, the spire of St Nicholas Cathedral and The Dog Leap Stairs in Newcastle, England. 1889. Photo by: Lydell Sawyer.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Stone Columns, Crowley Lake, California, USA

^THose^ may have been made by a different animal, but...
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-scientists-resolved-mystery-devils-corkscrews-180973487/

The Daimonelix burrow with a skeleton of its maker, the extinct beaver Palaeocaster is on view in the fossil hall at the National Museum of Natural History.

[GH85Carrera]

Oraibi, west court in Arizona
Established around 1100 AD, Oraibi is considered to be one of the oldest continuously inhabited settlements in the United States
Image c. 1871-1907
via Wikimedia Commons, public domain


A really tough day at work for one gas station attendant.


Kids!

[Jim Horton]

Originally Posted by daepp

Government Socialist/Socialist housing - brutalism is such an apt term.

You see this and you have to wonder why anyone would ever want to live under such political systems...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalist_architecture

Because they own no tanks, or anti-tank systems?

[GH85Carrera]

Diver Comes Face To Face With Gigantic Shark
A man has come face to face with a gargantuan shark, managing to capture the incredible moment on camera.
John Moore, 55, was free-diving off the coast of Jupiter in Florida earlier this month when the huge female was swimming among a shiver of bull sharks.
The images show the female's sharp teeth up close and personal to Moore, who is a shark diver and photographer.


The type of slides we played on as kids.


A 5MB IBM hard drive being loaded onto an airplane in 1956

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Diver Comes Face To Face With Gigantic Shark
A man has come face to face with a gargantuan shark, managing to capture the incredible moment on camera.
John Moore, 55, was free-diving off the coast of Jupiter in Florida earlier this month when the huge female was swimming among a shiver of bull sharks.
The images show the female's sharp teeth up close and personal to Moore, who is a shark diver and photographer.

Yes, face to face with gigantic shark. Glenn would never be able to replicate this one with his knowledge of photography.

[GH85Carrera]

Yea, I would be creating a large brown cloud in the water around me if I saw a shark at all. Much less one that could swallow me whole.















Yea, right. Inflate your tire in seconds! Several hundred seconds. And where does she plug that thing in???
And she will need a paint correction specialist to remove the scratches from the excess jewellery she is rubbing on the fender.

[Steve Carlton]

Be nice. Kirstie Alley is now longer with us anymore.

[GH85Carrera]

A young Farrah Fawcett...early 1970's.
Dang she was hot.




Pittsburgh in 1970, impressive massiveness that was once J & L Steel. There was a rotten egg smell from the Eliza Furnace. I believe June 14th was a Smog Alert Day. This intimidating photo taken in 1952-3 of the Penn Lincoln Parkway (now I-376 East) has cars parked right on the highway. Why? This is where it ended for two years - at Bates Street.


The Ankerwycke Yew is an ancient yew tree near Wraysbury in Berkshire, England. The tree is at least 1,400 years old and could be as old as 2,500 years. This tree is said to have been witness to the signing of Magna Carta in 1215.


In the 1950s and 1960s, Jaguar seamlessly combined art with engineering. This era of cars was both stunning to drive and look at and this carried on through every element of the cars. The XK engine is an example of this. The revolutionary twin overhead cam engine was designed and developed by the Jaguar/SS team during the Second World War when the Jaguar factory was being used for the war effort. The aim was to produce an engine which produced higher than normal output so would be able to outperform the completion for many years to come and which ‘looked good’. It was then launched in 1948 in the first prototype XK120 at the London Motor Show and the engine delivered on all counts.
The performance from an XK engine was incredible for the time and even a 3.4 litre powered car remains swift by modern motoring standards. The engine was such a success it remained in production in various forms all the way up to 1992. It also looks stunning in the engine bay, particularly with the smooth cam covers fitted to XKs and early E-Type.
Pictured here is the rather attractive cylinder head of an XK150 engine which is currently being rebuilt in the workshop.

[rcooled]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Diver Comes Face To Face With Gigantic Shark.

That photo might be a bit misleading as to the size of the shark. I'm guessing that the animal is much closer to the camera than the diver. A little Photoshop work could've been involved as well.

[GH85Carrera]

Bell's First Telephone: A man using Alexander Graham Bell's first telephone. Photo published in the Detroit News between 1915 and 1925.
Here ihe is sitting at the dinner table staring at his phone!

[jcwade]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

I've been there. Really cool. And really cramped.

[GH85Carrera]

November 1958, CBS Television City video tape editor Ross Murry edits together the PLAYHOUSE 90 presentation of "Old Man" as director John Frankenheimer watches. This was the first time an entire production had ever been videotaped in advance and edited for air. More here