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...

Hair Loss Treatment for Women

If you're a woman, I bet hair loss is on your list of things you don't want as a problem. When you brush your hair and you see there are too much hair coming out with every brushing, it's enough to alarm you to do whatever it needs to stop it. What can be done? The first thing you need to do is to educate yourself on the causes of hair loss...

Snake Eats a Lizard

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Book Carvings

Stunning book carvings by a Taiwanese artist Long Bin-Ch...

Coffee: To Quit or Not to Quit

Coffee is the hot beverage of choice in Europe, the Americas, and the Arabic world, with tea occupying that position in Britain, China, and India. In Arabia, the oily coffee berries were used as a medicine and fermented to make wine almost 2,000 years ago. There are many legends about how the stimulating properties of coffee came to be recognized. One legend traces coffee’s first use as a beverage...

Top 5 Reasons NOT to Drink Soda

1. Soda is one more cause of the climate crisis. We have exported our carbon dioxide addiction all around the world. Just think of the costs in fuel to ship it—and the emissions produced. Maybe if we stop drinking so much of it, the appeal of American sodas will decline elsewhere. And at least in most other countries, the local soda is still made with real sugar!2. Yeah, yeah, yeah…high-fructose corn...

Skip Milk? 5 Reasons Why

1. Dairy cows are fed the wrong food, which not only changes the nature of the milk but causes health problems for the cows. They are fed soy, corn, cottonseed meal or other commercial feeds, which contain all sorts of things including chicken manure and citrus peel cake, laced with pesticides. These foods are not appropriate for cows, who are ruminants and should be feeding on green grass in the...

Protect Yourself From the Top 10 Frauds and Scams

Unscrupulous schemers and scammers have become trickier and harder to spot than ever, thanks to more sophisticated marketing and the availability of online information. But don’t worry: Your pocket can’t be picked without some participation by you. If you know what to watch out for and how to protect yourself, you can keep your hard-earned money safe. Here, the top ten financial fleecing tricks...

Probably the coolest damn tank I've seen

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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

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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...

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 moth barked Ft Washington 1941 Ames Iowa photos from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=927...