Saturday, August 19, 2017

Possibly the only person to park his truck on top of a car, in traffic, and get the other guy arrested. Don't try this at home folks.


According to an arrest affidavit, Adalberto Aponte, 53, said he got into a verbal disturbance that ended when Zach Waring placed his pickup truck into reverse and backed up onto Aponte’s Camry.

Waring told police that Aponte had been driving recklessly since he appeared behind Waring's truck. Waring said Aponte almost caused multiple crashes, and when he reached a red light at the intersection of Southwest 42nd Street and Southwest 27th Avenue, Aponte got out of his Camry, walked directly to Waring's open driver's window and "began to strike him in the face through the window multiple times," police said.

The victim's girlfriend yelled that there was a gun in the truck when Waring was unable to stop Aponte from punching him, a report states. There wasn't a gun in the pickup truck, police said.

According to the report, Aponte said, "I'll show you a real gun."

Waring told police that he feared for his life and his family and "had no other option but to place his vehicle in reverse and hit Aponte's vehicle in an attempt to prevent him from obtaining a firearm and causing further harm to him or his family," a report states.

Police said the red light prevented Waring from driving forward through the intersection in an attempt to leave the argument.

Witnesses to the road rage incident were able to confirm Waring's statements, police said.

Aponte was arrested at the scene and charged with burglary, battery, criminal mischief and driving with suspended license for failing to pay child support in September 2016.

http://www.mynews13.com/content/news/cfnews13/news/article.html/content/news/articles/cfn/2017/2/2/ocala_road_rage_inci.html?a

this is new... doesn't seem to have steering though


parenting.... sometimes it's easy to see what their hobby is

this is why planes aren't allowed to use roads as runways...

how did this happen... did they look at a deep ditch, and think... I can either make it, or make it worse?

finally a use for chinese made garbage tools

Double engined Oliver


thanks Mark!

price comparison on tires.

As I do when I need to buy a new set of tires, I compare prices.

This time I have a Veloster R Spec, which simply has a turbo and better shifter, and last time I had a plain jane Veloster

Prices went up. Mostly.

This time, The rim is an 18 in.

Walmart 536
Tire Rack 543
Amazon 573
Discount tire 592
Tire Depot: 598
Hyundai dealership 856

The best price last time was 376. So getting a more fun car, means more expensive tires. Damn it.
Last time discount tire was 610. This time they are 18 dollars less expensive

last comparison
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2013/07/shop-around-so-said-capt-and-tenille.html

Sweet.... imagine driving this around town


over at http://www.thepetrolstop.com/2013/09/random-picture-hot-wheels-car.html  they are trying to find out who made it or owned it

Wow, answered in less than 10 minutes!

It's Darryl Starbird's Star Trek Coupe... Thanks Warren!

1966 Travco motor home, Dodge power train, poly 318. Original accessories and all the brochures and paperwork


originally cost 13,800, adjusted for inflation that's 100,000. A house bought by that family a year later cost 15 thou.

2 piece fiberglass, and never been in as much as a bump in the night.

The front bumper doubles as a bench and storage.















https://www.bumfuzzle.com

1966 22′ Airstream Safari for 29k (I envy you rich people, especially whoever buys this)


Comes complete with a drop hitch, anti-sway bars, and electric brakes. We’ve towed this trailer 15,000 miles with an all original 1968 International Travelall.

 A family full-timed in it for a year without a single issue along the way. It’s clean, fresh, and fully-functioning. If you are tired of the idea of buying a fixer-upper, and just want to get out on the road, then this is the perfect Airstream for you.



a full gallery and terrific webpage about it https://www.bumfuzzle.com/1966-airstream-safari-sale/

want to read an adventure, racing, sailing, and Rv-ing around the world?


in 2003 a husband and wife were eating pizza and drinking beer in Chicago, and got to talking about whether to settle down or see the world.

So they bought this 35 foot catamaran, and began an amazing round the world journey/adventure.

Florida, the Bahamas, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, Thailand, Egypt, Spain, and back to Florida.


Then they raced across the US in a 356, then


they began a van cruise around the US.... starting in the Baja, to Alaska, to Belize, Peru, Argentina, and then over to Europe,


then they had some kids and sailed up and down the Pacific coast of Mexico


then they bought a 1966 Dodge motor home (seperate post on it's incredible vintage stuff) with original interior in 2013, it only had a 318 though



and then they bought an IH Traveler and an Airstream 


and now are going back to a boat


https://www.bumfuzzle.com/adventure/

Maybe you recall how VW was touted as high tech for their manufacturing, well... look at Tesla's production

Friday, August 18, 2017

Back when real cars ran in races, with their tops chopped off. Imagine racing with convertibles now?

nice pace car Camaro

Larry Shinoda concept art

Looks a lot like the Maverick or the early 70s Comet to me. But it's a 1964 Chevy concept, the XP-813

Honda manned up, and quietly mentioned that it was the bikes fault why McGuiness crashed at the 2017 TT

Honda did eventually confirm that John himself had quickly fed back to the team that the throttle had either stuck or opened unexpectedly.

After the rather loud explosion of rebutted ‘Guy Martin retirement’ news released by MCN, it might raise the odd skeptical eyebrow that it was also MCN that announced – just hours later – the official confirmation from Honda that it was an error with their bike which caused John to crash.

Honda Team Manager, Jonny Twelvetrees released today in a statement that after having extracted and reviewed the data from the ECU on McGuinness bike, they can now confirm that it was a setting on the ECU race kit software that resulted in the throttle, unexpectedly, blipping.

Speaking about the incident, Twelvetrees had this to say,

“Although at the time there was a long delay in getting the data from John’s bike due to the ECU being damaged – the ECU had to be sent all the way to the supplier in China to extract the data from it – we put in a countermeasure of a new spec of ECU for the TT to ensure the problem wouldn’t happen again.

http://www.motofire.com/2017/07/sport/honda-quietly-release-details-of-fireblade-failure-in-mcguinness-crash/

McGuinness has been diagnosed with a compound fracture to the bottom of this right leg Tibia and Fibula, and four broken vertebrae and three broken ribs in the accident at the NW200

http://www.motofire.com/2017/05/sport/honda-make-official-statement-john-mcguinness-guy-martin-nw200-tt/

Dream Factory Blow, a company in Japan that can make a stock vanilla van or truck look like a classic (Thanks Burkey!)


they manufacture high quality plastic kits to transform A Honda van into a 70's Dodge van, amongst others.





skip the first minute, of course

http://www.blow-net.co.jp/products-cars

Mihai and his wife and kid are going all over with their Ural, and stopped by the factory... and wow, were treated to a rebuild for free! (thanks Larry!)





and even met up with the Zapp family I posted about http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2017/02/a-17-year-long-road-trip.html

after 70k of road they stopped by the factory for a gasket... but were treated to a complete tear down and rebuild!


On his epic summer adventure Mihai and his family recently visited our factory in Irbit to see where his Ural was born.

Unknown to him we had arranged for his bike to get a full work through, giving it some love after over 70,000 kilometers on the road.

"I told them I only needed a gasket for my alternator and the small switch to turn on the rear brake lights. Then in 30 minutes my bike was completely apart and the guys started replacing all sorts of stuff on it.

I was there with my eyes wide and could not believe what is going on... I kept adding up the parts in my mind, counting everything they replaced, and started freaking out at what it would cost..."

"They saw my face and started smiling. Relax! It's on the house!

We stood there in disbelief, really, it's beyond my ability to put into words... it's the biggest surprise I've had since I bought the bike. I just want you to know that this means a lot to us, and we are deeply thankful for this. I still can't believe what happened. A thousand thank you's for that, and I still feel it's not enough."


https://www.instagram.com/bizoo_n/
https://www.imz-ural.com/blog/2017/8/17/factory-visit

FedEx managed to hang on to their very first delivery van, a '73 E150, which they display at their corporate headquarters in Memphis Tennessee.