On December 17, 1903, Orville Wright piloted the first powered airplane 20 feet above a wind-swept beach in North Carolina. The flight lasted 12 seconds and covered 120 feet.Three more flights were made that day with Orville's brother Wilbur piloting the record flight lasting 59 seconds over a distance of 852 feethttp://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/wright.htmLevi LaVallee went 361 feet on a snowmobileFrom...
Selasa, 04 Januari 2011
This is not a successful landing, but if they practice they are going to nail this manuever, and shows will be cooler than ever!
It's pretty cool that you can see how they engineered the ramp to get the truck to flip, and that they set up a huge landing padfound on http://autozine.com.br/...
24 butterflies, 8 blowers, and makes 3400 hp worth of Nitrous powered grin... Mike Harrah's Detroit Diesel, does it make you feel a bit awed?
180 photo gallery of the intake and engine going together here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/learaviator/sets/72157623774941005learned about it on http://www.autoblog.hu/videok/video_24_hengeres_dizelmotor.html not much info on the www yet, but I did find that the guy is a millionaire real estate developer, and owns the biggest of the Blastolene...
Dream Factory Blow is still making cool vehicles, and now are filmed to get a better look at how they make American trucks from Japanese econ boxes
Photos from http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthread.php?4214260 and I learned of the video from http://www.ridelust.com/japanese-ingenuity-with-american-style/ Sorry, gotta jump through the link to see the videohttp://translogic.aolautos.com/2010/12/13/translogic-9-1-japan-part-3-dream-factory-blow/ because the damn video won't play when I...
Ken Block, that maniac, has a new video on a seaside dock
Via: http://www.ausmotive.com/2010/12/06/ken-block-gymkhana-grid-invitational.html in a way, they had a link to http://gymkhanagrid.com/#/videos/gymkhana-video-two and the rest is hoon hist...
discovery of a forgotten junkyard... on the Nature Conservatory property
read about it http://www.junkyardlife.com/2010/08/junkyard-crawling-in-wisconsin.h...
This is no way to treat a sports car, just go get a junker wagon instead!
from the club roadster thread http://clubroadster.net/vb_forum/showthread.php?t=1962&highlight=dope&pag...
1967 Trabant Kubel... somewhere a WW2 axis staff car is looking at this and thinking "I will call it mini-me! "
from http://route66bitz.tumblr.c...
A MINI is racing in the Dakar (now through South America)
Six BMW X3CCs and the brand new Mini All4 Racing will represent Sven Quandt's team on 13 timed special stages and 5,020km of competitive action in a route of 9,618km over the next 14 days across northern Argentina and Chile.Quandt has assembled a team of over 80 personnel - the largest line-up in X-raid's eight-year history - to tackle...
I often get solicited to post someones article, list, or link to their site, but don't. Here are some I'm interested in if you want my attention
10 best websites for what ever... especially how you rank your top 10 favorite blogs10 worst mechanics,10 worst ripoffs in the auto world (besides Bernie Madoff),10 hardest repairs due to engineering shortsightedness,10 most difficult to diagnose problems with your car,10 easiest things you can troubleshoot your self (battery dead? Voltage regulator? or Starter? is the most common problem) ,10 cheapest...
Stash of Aussie Ford GT's found in South Africa
during that era a whole bunch of Falcon GT parts were exported to South Africa where they were assembled into Fairmont GTs. Recently, a large haul of Fairmont GTs was unearthed and the collector is the first commentor on the article, setting the story straightread about it http://www.ausmotive.com/2009/02/19/ford-gt-stash-uncovered-in-s...
Lynx and Russian Cat Best Buddies
In Leningrad (St Petersburg) Zoo, the oldest zoo in Russia, an European Lynx had a frequent visitor who befriended the big wild cat and now they are practically living together. This visitor is a calico cat who has bonded with the Lynx ever since the day she entered the enclosure.According to the local people, the calico was homeless and...
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