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Sunday, January 17, 2016

1956 Chevy Nomad photoshopped into a truck

Found on https://www.facebook.com/groups/108731209478234/

http://www.superchevy.com/features/sucs-1041-mike-dodsons-1956-chevy-nomad-wagon/#photo-02

Thanks Steve!

Wednesday, January 13, 2016

damn good looking car, the 1972 Ford Falcon XA GT 351

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1631935880418477/?fref=nf

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Bennett's Borgward Goliath (1958)

Paul had just moved to Kurrajong on Sydney’s far western outskirts, and while settling into the area he went exploring, and found a wreck he took 3 years to turn into this, used as a duck roost in a neighbors yard

http://www.streetmachine.com.au/features/1503/gallery-borgward-goliath-by-paul-bennett/borgward-goliath-14

Sunday, January 10, 2016

greed cameras... have zero tolerance, and no margin for error factor. But they are money makers for the govt

Why a margin for error factor? Because the variation in the tire pressure from hot summer to winter cold snap (I've seen 100 degree difference in 1 day) can change the speedometer reading to actual speed over ground by 10%.

A cop won't bother pulling over anyone for just 2 kph, or mph, because they are instructed to stop people speeding in the higher fine brackets. Like 10 to 15 mph over, when the fine doubles.

https://www.facebook.com/MeanwhileInAustralia/photos/a.388527251219887.92144.388525541220058/1004060196333253/?type=3

Tracey Curtis-Taylor completed her solo flight from England in a vintage open cockpit biplane.

Her mission was to emulate the pioneering British aviator Amy Johnson, who became the first woman to fly solo from Britain to Australia in 1930. Tracey set off in her 1942 Boeing Stearman from Farnborough, Hampshire, in October, with a support team of engineers in a separate aircraft, as well as a camera crew.

She retraced pioneer Amy Johnson's 1930 flight, at the age of 26 with little flying experience, flying over 23 countries and making some 50 refuelling stops.

“My own flight to Australia is the realisation of a burning desire to fly my beloved Boeing Stearman around the world following in their footsteps,” she has recreated the essence of Johnson’s era of flying, with an open cockpit, stick and rudder flying with basic period instruments and a short range between landing points.

She is not unfamiliar with this form of flying. She flew solo from Cape Town to the UK in 2013, recreating the 1928 flight of Lady Mary Heath.

She said that despite having just completed the exhausting trip, she still had the drive to make further expeditions. “What I would really like to do is get back in the airplane and fly up the east coast of Australia. I wish I could keep going, I never want to land as the experience is so profound, it’s addictive, I am still in expedition mode, but I need to relax and decompress.”

She said she would travel to New Zealand to celebrate her mother’s 80th birthday before joining her aircraft in Seattle for a coast-to-coast expedition across the US. “Why not keep going? Life should be about big projects,” she said.

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jan/09/i-need-a-drink-british-woman-lands-in-sydney-after-21000km-flight-in-vintage-biplane
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-35271182
https://www.facebook.com/birdinabiplane/

First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, Amelia Earhart, Jim Mollison husband of Amy Johnson, President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Amy and Jim had crash landed after running out of fuel in a transatlantic record bid, hence the bandages. Sadly the marriage didn't last; Mollison was a pretty reckless character and would have been delicately described in the day as a "ladies' man". Amy was killed ferrying an Oxford twin during the early days of the war. She had parachuted into the English Channel and was almost saved but heavy seas foiled her would be rescuers. (Thanks Tony for the info!)