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The Sphinx in 1914. A promotional photo made for the Ford Model T.

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Next time your wallet is feeling light from buying tools, think of this titanium tool set for a McLaren Speedtail. $34,000. And I thought the G body 911 tool roll was expensive!

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Rear half of DOHC 91 C.I. Miller straight-eight lower end that ended up tangled in a fence on top of the wall at the Indiana Motor Speedway circa late-1920s after a catastrophic engine explosion. Photo found via Pete Jenson.
He blowed it up real good!

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Cowboy Trading Post in Arizona: Schlitz Beer, Gila Monster’s, and Rattlesnakes.


An extreme macro shot of a mosquito’s foot.

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Whoops!



Cast iron and masonry public urinal on curb of street. Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Martin, Paris, France. Ca. 1865. Photo by Charles Marville.

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21 years after Doc Holliday died, Wyatt Earp's friend and supporter Bat Masterson wrote this article about Doc published in "Human Life" magazine:
"Holliday had a mean disposition and an ungovernable temper, and under the influence of liquor was a most dangerous man. In this respect he was very much like the big Missourian who had put in the day at the crossroad groggery and, after getting pretty well filled up with bug juice of the moonshine brand, concluded that it was about time for him to say something that would make an impression on his hearers; so he straightened up, threw out his chest and declared in a loud tone of voice, that he was a bad man when he was drinking and managed to keep pretty full all the time. So it was with Holliday."
"Physically, Doc Holliday was a weakling who could not have whipped a healthy fifteen-year-old boy in a go-as-you-please fist fight, and no one knew this better than himself, and the knowledge of this fact was perhaps why he was so ready to resort to a weapon of some kind whenever he got himself into difficulty. He was hot-headed and impetuous and very much given to both drinking and quarreling, and, among men who did not fear him, was very much disliked."
"He possessed none of the qualities of leadership such as those that distinguished such men as H. P. Myton, Wyatt Earp, Billy Tilghman, and other famous western characters. Holliday seemed to be absolutely unable to keep out of trouble for any great length of time. He would no sooner be out of one scrape before he was in another, and the strange part of it is he was more often in the right than in the wrong, which has rarely ever been the case with a man who is continually getting himself into trouble."


No they did not leave the airplane parked on Chicago streets overnight. This is Waddell's Wagon, created to train pilots to taxi in the 747 before prototypes were completed.








What's next a Kosher marinade kit for pulled pork?

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Australian History..
This is the man known as Koolbiri or 'Mailman Jimmy' who for many years carried the mail on foot between Fowlers Bay and Eucla in the early days of settlement on the South Australian West Coast.
Following Mailman Jimmy's death the Saturday Journal reported on 25 August 1923;
"He was the Royal Mail between Fowlers Bay and Eucla for many years. He ran with the mail bags every fortnight from the Bay to Eucla, a distance of 280 miles, and returned during the following fortnight.
He could do the journey in faster time than a man on horseback, owing, I presume, to his superior bushcraft, and his knowledge of reliable water supplies...."






Talk about flat spots!


Photograph #5 of 15 in tenant farmer photoshoot: Daughter of tenant farmer peeling potatoes for noonday meal. Muskogee, Oklahoma in 1939. Photograph by New Deal photographer Russell Lee.


Back when you had to check the points often!

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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Back when you had to check the points often!

Its no wonder they guy appears concerned. Looks like the twin carbs are flooded.

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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Here is a photo of the "Tower Fuel Stop - Groom, Texas" on Route 66 with its unique Britten water tower...

Can confirm - still there

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Maybe it means noting at all is a crime during those hours!

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