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Was at a C&C recently and finally saw one of those ridiculous wings that people stick on road cars actually being useful for something ...

[GH85Carrera]

[GH85Carrera]

Not long ago, that was a fast time for a 1/4 mile. She did it in 1/8 of a mile!






In this ca. 1880 photo, wood is being gathered to power the boilers at Arizona's Silver King mine. This photo is interesting in that it shows cord wood for the boilers (on the right), and timbering for the mine (on the left) in the same view.

[Steve Carlton]

Love their work!

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In 1916, if you wanted to buy a Ford in Dallas, the procedure was a bit different than it is today. Seven years before, in 1909, the Ford Motor Company opened a two-man service center in Dallas to repair and service its new Model T cars. Within five years, demand for Model T's was so great that Ford opened an assembly line in the 1900 block of Main at Commerce street. It could produce 150 cars per day. Here's one young man's buying experience:
"Other automobile companies had showrooms in the business area but if you wanted to buy a Ford you had to go to the factory. I was a student at Southern Methodist University in 1916, and my father sent me down to buy a car. I had a check for the full price, $424.10, as the only way you could buy a car was for cash. We lived at 3515 Crescent, so I had to walk to Knox Street and get a streetcar to the plant.
When the car came off the assembly line they asked me if I could drive and I said, yes, and asked was it ready to go? They said, yes, it was ready; it had oil but it needed some gasoline. I asked if they would furnish enough gasoline for me to get home as I only lived three or four miles away. They said, no, so I said, "Give me my check back and I will go buy an Overland."
They gave me my check back and I went home on the streetcar, but before I got there they had called my father and told them 'send that boy back,' they would give him some gasoline. I went back and got the car, with gasoline, and drove it all my school years."
----- Dale S. Campbell, as quoted in A.C. Greene's "Sketches from the Five States of Texas." Here's a photo of a 1916 Ford, though not Dale Campbell's Ford.

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Still page 968

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[Bill Douglas]

[Bill Douglas]

[Bill Douglas]

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OTD in 1960, the seven Mercury astronauts watched the first test flight of their Mercury spacecraft at Cape Canaveral. But 58 seconds into flight, MA-1 exploded 🚀 💥
Here are some of the remains recovered from the sea bottom — an exterior panel with the "S" from UNITED STATES and a large 31” chunk of the inner titanium structure and nickel-chrome alloy outer skin, twisted from the violence of its demise.
If successful, MA-1 would have given America a fighting chance of beating the cosmonauts to orbit. Excitement ran high as the countdown progressed. Rain lashed Launch Complex 14 as the Atlas rocket's three engines roared to life, and MA-1 disappeared into low-hanging clouds. All systems nominal when mission control suddenly lost radio contact with the Atlas rocket as it climbed past 30,000 feet. Contact with the Mercury capsule continued until it hit the Atlantic ocean seven miles downrange.

As thousands of fragments rained from the clouds, astronaut Alan Shepard calmly turned to the red-faced engineers and asked, "You're going to fix that, aren't you?"

The catastrophic MA-1 failure caused some to question NASA's decision to launch men on Atlas rockets. While some sought to place blame, engineers got to work analyzing the problem. The cloud cover meant that no one saw the Atlas fail. Engineers had to look for clues as to what went wrong in recorded telemetry and among MA-1 fragments like these recovered from a search of the ocean bottom.
After six months of sleuthing, they concluded that the Atlas ICBM weight trimming had gone too far. The failure had occurred near "Max Q" when maximum aerodynamic pressure rattled MA-1. The thin-skinned adapter ring linking capsule to rocket had crumpled under the strain. Engineers added a reinforcing eight-inch-wide "belly band" of steel to the adapter ring on Mercury-Atlas 2, and NASA breathed a big sigh of relief as MA-2 accomplished all its planned mission objectives. The fix was in.
Alan Shepard went on to become the first American to fly the Mercury spacecraft into space, 40 weeks after seeing MA-1 destroyed… and just 23 days after the Russians famously sent the first human into orbit.

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Approximately 20 stories of stairs inside the historical Brittania copper mine. North of Vancouver BC.

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1975 Cadillac Sedan-de-Ville with Maharajah-pattern-fabric in jasper leather










OK, WTF is that sign?

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When in the heck is that thing!

[Steve Carlton]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

When in the heck is that thing!

https://cutlersonline.com/rsvp/stainless-steel-egg-topper-23307

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When director Joe Dante was working on the set of the 1985 film "Explorers," a crew member on the Paramount lot handed him one of the four wooden sleds that had been created for the production of Orson Welles' 1941 classic "Citizen Kane." The studio was getting rid of old props, and the iconic "Rosebud" sled was heading for the dump. Dante gladly accepted the sled and held onto it for 40 years until deciding to sell it at auction — where it just fetched $14.75 million. Only one other piece of movie memorabilia has ever sold for more: a pair of Dorothy's ruby slippers from "The Wizard of Oz." Learn more about the sale of "one of the most iconic objects in Hollywood history.