automotive car: 2010

Zaniest thing I've seen in a while, the Jade Warrior from 1985

Skip the first 30 secondsLearned about it from http://zelastchancegaragedu78.blogspot.com/ information from http://www.dragzine.com/news/the-jade-warrior-a-truly-insane-and-one-of-a-kind-ride/The creation of British motorcycle racer Angus MacPhail, who built it himself in his garage, it's called the “Jade Warrior,” did the quarter mile in...

Coolest damn thing you'll see all week. 1913 Harley, heavily optioned,TANDEM !, unrestored, with a quick history and instructions how to start it. WOW

the bike's options are discussed for the first 5 minutes, then the bike is started up and the procedure is wonderfully demonstrated, step by step. (starts at minute 5:30)Thanks Mike! This is gre...

The Camelback locomotive design, used in conjunction with the exceptionally wide Wooten firebox, not safe though

The "Camelback" design, which straddled the cab over the center of the boiler, allowed the exceptional width of the Wooten firebox, which burned lower BTU anthracite coal from Eastern Pennsylvania.The Locomotives in the picture were also called "Mother Hubbards" among other names. They were discontinued from freight service because if a...

Probably the coolest damn tank I've seen

from http://zelastchancegaragedu78.blogspot.c...

Porsche tractor gallery

see the whole gallery at http://zelastchancegaragedu78.blogspot.com/2010/11/porsche-tractors.h...

Something new in the world of 3 wheelers

No information, just a gallery of photos on http://zelastchancegaragedu78.blogspot.com/2010/11/pak-rak.html...

innovative use of wrenchs

from http://zelastchancegaragedu78.blogspot.c...

president of the Packard Motorcar Company in a 1913 Packard doing a trailblazer journey across the USA scouting a route for the Lincoln Highway

photos from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=930 Conceived in 1912 by Carl Fisher, (founder of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway), the Lincoln Highway would be the first highway to stretch coast-to-coast. In those days few “improved” (graded) roads existed, and those few were only found within city limits....

What a day, so far I've posted fire trucks, motorcycles, a movie about cabs, train wreck photos, locomotives, and a dragster

Top that Jalopn...

1933, 5:54pm, a 6.3 magnitude earthquake hit Long Beach. Imagine what the result of that catastrophe would be today in LA rush hour?

for a photo gallery, or to read about it: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-longbeach_1933earthquake-pg,0,3546233.photogall...

The Big Boy, used coal so fast that shovels couldn't feed it fast enough, so they built a conveyor belt direct from the coal to the firebox

photos from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=927...

1910's to 1950's fire engines

1910 Peerless 1928 Seldon and I noticed that this and the 1910 Peerless are both marked Ft Washington 1941 Ames Iowa photos from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=927...

The High and Mighty, mopar engineers and (street racers by night) used it to develop intakes and engines

Above from http://musclecardreaming.tumblr.com above photo via http://zelastchancegaragedu78.blogspot.com/ photos from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=927...

In the woods of Maine are the neglected remains of two locomotives

The Eagle Lake and West Branch (ELWB) Railroad Locomotive #1, was built in June 1897 at Schenectady Locomotive Works (4-6-0 stamped #4552), it was originally a steam locomotive but later converted to burn crude oil to eliminate the forest fire threat caused by cinders. Number 1 was purchased by Great Northern in 1926 and used to haul pulpwood...

Don't let them get caught in the floods, keep them high and dry

Novel solution!photos from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=927...

For an easy going enjoyable older movie, DC Cab. Its rated R, so send the kids to the other room, but Mr T, Gary Busey, Max Gail, and Bill Maher star

Sounds like a Richard Pryor swearfest, but it's got Checker cabs throughout, car chases, good guys becoming a team and facing the bad guys, solving a kidnapping, and overcoming adversi...

1 of 3 existing BMW R51 RS factory race bikes in unrestored condition getting auctioned

Read about the sad true story of how the first owner was ruined by the US Govt because he was German immigrant businessman at the beginning of WW2, just like many Japanese Americans were. He was the BMW importer in New York, and managed to finagle one of these seventeen R51RS racers from the factory. In truth, BMW sold very few motorcycles...

Home built Shelby Cobra Daytona was made when Shelby sold chassis CSX2130 to an independant racer. I wonder if it was the only one

learned about this at http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showpost.php?p=5870067&postcount=13861 but the story is at http://www.imca-slotracing.com/1964-Le%20Mans%2024-5.htmSeptember 26, 1964 - The annual Autosport Three Hours, at the Snetterton track is the tenth and last round of the British Championship and the fifth time that Ford...

Justacargal has moved to a bigger and better blog, she is now blogging at http://justacargal-s.blogspot.com/

for her lighter side of cars, life, and the things she enjoys sharing you can find them at http://justacargal-s.blogspot.com/...

A Trolley hit this car, makes me wonder how often that happened

the type of Trolley I'm referring to is the electric streetcar before they were all disposed of in favor of gross polluting GM busses http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/07/wouldnt-city-transportation-be-more.html no joke, the lobbyists for GM (biggest corporation in the world at that time) convinced the national senators and congressmen...

Haulers of heavy loads... locomotives

The above load was 100 tons, looks like the tires are solid rubber, and the trailer appears to be the same in the above and the below photo photos from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=931...