best damn car story you'll read for a while, the GTO Judge that Brad's brother in law had, and Brad has been infatuated with, for about 40 years

Russ bought the GTO, a Judge with a RA-III 400 and a four-speed transmission, brand new and put on 72 thousand miles until the clutch blew. Into the barn it went, and Russ visited it every year when he spent the summer helping out with the wheat harvest. Haven't we all been crazy over a car, and just went to look at it? Just staring and hoping.

20 years went by as mice and cats took over the interior.

Brad tried to buy, offered to restore it, and his brother in law steadfastly refused to let him do anything with it.

Brad didn't give up, but it was clear his brother in law couldn't bear to part with the Ram Air III Judge. Then, their family connection, his sister died.

You'd figure that would be the end of Brad's tenuous thread to the goat, but it was his sister's dying wish that her husband give up the car to her brother who has been patient and passionate about it for 20 years while it deteriorated.

So Russ finally gave up. But Brad wouldn't take the car. He would only buy it, restore it, leave it with Russ for the summer, and then - take over care of it after Russ had a full summer of car shows and cruises that he's been wanting to do for 2 decades while his goat slumbered in the barn.

Ain't that the coolest? I wanna buy both of them a beer.

http://www.hotrod.com/cars/featured/1503-1970-pontiac-gto-judge-rare-find/

Cedar River trestle, 203 feet high, 843 feet long, photography of lumberjack and logging photographer Darius Kinsey

Found on http://www.highestbridges.com/wiki/index.php?title=File:CedarRiverTrestle3.jpg&limit=500

And it seems they were made like this:

Found on http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/50948934

But have you seen a yarding donkey?

Photo by Clark Kinsey, 1930.

Found on http://www.rustygrapple.com/Machinery.html

Squaredancing Farmall tractors

Logging bridge and logging truck, good photo

Check out the rims on that rig... 3 to 4 feet in diameter judging by the size of the passenger.

Found on http://westforestlands.com/ while looking for photography of Darius Kinsey, noted logging and lumberjack photographer

16 bikes stolen from combat wounded in San Diego

16 custom-made bikes were stolen last Tuesday from a storage unit at the Naval Medical Center San Diego.

They belonged to the Vets2Trails therapeutic mountain biking program that supports the PTSD program at Naval Medical Center San Diego

Anyone with information should contact Jamie Rihn at 910-382-2003 or by emailing jamier@ride2recovery.com

News from http://fox5sandiego.com/2015/03/31/16-custom-bicycles-stolen-from-wounded-veterans/

Update April 1st
http://www.sandiegojack.com/story/28698655/san-diegans-raise-25000-to-replace-stolen-bikes

San Diegans donate 25 thousand dollars on the AM760 radio show Armstrong and Getty

http://fox5sandiego.com/2015/04/01/curt-schilling-offers-reward-to-find-wounded-veterans-stolen-bicycles/
Curt Schilling offers reward of “two tickets and two seats to ANY game in the country for whoever makes this happen… with travel paid.” to anyone that finds and returns the bikes

Lots of kerfluffle about Top Gear, but why hasn't Jeremy Clarkson been interviewed? Or May, or Hammonds?

The UK newspaper the Telegraph reports that Richard and James did not sign to renew their contract with BBC2 for Top Gear, and so they are free agents. Jeremy is fired.

So why hasn't anyone gotten any statement from Jeremy in weeks?

His monthly column ran in this past months Top Gear magazine, but I can't find an online version of it, and it was written long before he punched johnny-never-heard-of-you.

Oddly, all 3 are contracted to do Top Gear Live events with a the BBC Worldwide and Brand Events consortium called Sub Zero.

The problem is that since Top Gear has fired Jeremy, the events can't be branded and marketing the Top Gear show, but have already sold out 4 shows this weekend in Norway.

Top Gear Live has a string of international events lined up this year, with the next under threat potentially Sydney in April and Johannesburg in June. The UK stops on the tour – Belfast in May, Sheffield in June and London’s O2 in November – have been guaranteed by UK promoter Live Nation.

Top Gear Live makes more than £11m in revenues annually and this year’s global tour is understood to have sold more than 100,000 tickets.

Newsflash:
The worldwide tour, previously known as Top Gear Live and fronted by Clarkson alongside co-presenters Richard Hammond and James May, will be renamed Clarkson, Hammond and May Live. The shows have been stripped of Top Gear and BBC branding.

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/mar/31/top-gear-tour-featuring-jeremy-clarkson-to-go-ahead-without-shows-branding

Swiss rail road inspection Willys Jeep has an interesting body for easy swapping of rail rims to street tires

Found on https://www.facebook.com/HeritageRailway?fref=nf  via  https://www.facebook.com/sbbhistoric?fref=nf

Bennett Service Station, East South Temple St, Salt Lake City, UT..

Found on https://www.facebook.com/groups/353785941367129/?fref=nf

1931 dealership showroom, tile floor, wood paneled columns, vaulted ceilings...

Contrast that with todays dealerships... plastic and cheap furniture everywhere, lots of glass, no class

Photo from https://www.facebook.com/anibal134?fref=photo

Wow... this is a first! "Nose Art" on a WW2 Jeep!

I've never seen that before!

The canvas flap that protects the passenger from mud and muck that flies up from front tire splashes, is something I don't remember seeing before also, but anyway, this photo was colored in, and the artist can't figure out the word under the pin up art. Any ideas?

Found on http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/70897.html/3

A very tired train taking a nap

A stationary train thrown down by the San Francisco earthquake at Point Reyes Station, west Marin County, California, April 18, 1906

Found on http://historicaltimes.tumblr.com/post/115111318154/a-stationary-train-thrown-down-by-the-san

The Beast, back at Goodwood. Be there June 25th -28th for the whole experience

All credit has to go to Stephan Marjorham for this video... no one else went all in to share with us the amazing restoration and revivification of the Beast of Turin

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Stefan-MarjoramArt-Photography/256570401042658?fref=nf

A Parnelli Jones edition Mustang

And this one was used, about 70 thousand miles on the odo... I was surprised to find it wasn't a garage queen held for investment

Henri Labourdette bodied Mercedes

those seats look very comfy

above is a spare tire lock... that is high class

and the trunk is exceptional.

Jeep vs tow truck, Chicago... you already know who wins, you only wonder how

the info with the video says the Jeep was getting towed out of Walgreens at Clark and Ontario,

The guy filming this, Marengo, told CBS Chicago he could hear the person in the Jeep yelling, "Hey stop buddy, I'm in here. Hey come on."

However, the driver did not appear to hear the man, who then started the Jeep and managed to pull free of the tow truck and drive away from the scene.

Workers with Protective Towing, the company identified on the side of the truck, declined to comment on whether the driver knew there was someone inside the Jeep and whether the vehicle was properly secured before managing to get free.

http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2015/03/31/Jeeps-tow-truck-escape-caught-on-camera-in-Chicago/1031427806038/

and always have good luck, if you can get ahold of one of these Indian Motorcycle good luck coins

Found on https://www.facebook.com/anibal134

Kiddie Corvette Pedal Car Ballot Box

1956 1957 Eska Corvette Pedal Car - Ballot Box

to win the "King of the Sidewalk Kiddie Corvette" Pedal Car you had to fill out a ballot and drop it in one of these official ballot boxes. This was found in the attic of a Chevrolet Dealership in Norfolk, Virginia.

some history of the pedal Eska Corvette Pedal Cars:

In 1956, General Motors Corporation awarded The Eska Company of Dubuque, Iowa a contract to produce 1/3 size pedal car replicas of their recently redesigned Chevrolet Corvette. Like the full-size car, the smaller, "Kiddie" version featured a molded, almost dent proof, plastic body as well as a real chrome trimmed two-speed transmission and an authentic Corvette colors of white with red interior. With help from GM's Styling department, Eska scaled down the real car's dimensions and the "mini Vette" was said by some at the time to be "dead on" for its dimensions relative to the real thing. These cars were made primarily for dealerships and promotions and were not available to the general public so there is no exact count on how many were produced, could have been as low as 200 or as many as 2000.

Some of the events reportedly using these pedi-powered racers were the 1956 Chevrolet Featurama and the NASCAR Speed Week Performance Trials in Daytona Beach, Florida where children could participate in races for a chance to win a "Kiddie Corvette" of their own and, on a National note, the cars were featured on "The Dinah Shore Show" as part of the "See the USA in Your Chevrolet" contest.

Thanks to John, photos and info from http://www.ebay.com/itm/1956-1957-Eska-Corvette-Pedal-Car-Ballot-Box-Extremely-RARE-Never-used-/141617603467 

just one year of collected nails from one road.

Found on http://cynthiashidesertblog.blogspot.com/2014/01/road-kill-and-blast-from-past-by-bill.html

and in 2012:

history, always with surprises. The 7 cylinder rotary engine by Macomber, 1915

Those rims too... cool and unusual.

Well the grand daughter of the inventor/mechanic, is very interested in locating an actual Macomber rotary engine and an Eagle-Macomber car.

If anyone out there has any leads, please contact Bart Parker at the Rand Desert Museum by clicking here, or www.andersonwritingservices.com.

http://cynthiashidesertblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/walter-macomber-macomber-rotary-engine.html

The significance of 1915 was that it was the year of the San Diego Exposition Road Race that was the opening event for the Pan Pacific Expo... sort of a worlds fair type of year long event http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2014/12/100th-anniversary-of-panama-california.html

more power and speed - than length of race track

Found on http://www189.carbuzz.com/news/2010/11/4/Chevy-Opalo-Metal-Dragster-Looks-Menacing-and-Causes-Carnage-7701511/

Must be Monday, how else to explain a Ford King Cobra being used to represent Plymouth on some website?

Found on http://ruoteclassiche.quattroruote.it/auto-e-moto/

mailbox...

Found on https://www.facebook.com/CaravanTurkey?fref=nf

What little remains of a Michigan trolley car, around 100 years old, and repurposed as a hunting shack for a while before it fell apart entirely

Found on http://www.coppercountryexplorer.com/2010/03/a-streetcar-revisited/

anyone looking to add to their Jeep patch collection?

Jan is selling these on Craigslist

http://detroit.craigslist.org/search/cba?query=jeep

mighty good looking locomotive, photo by David Oakley

Found on https://www.facebook.com/HeritageRailway?fref=nf

So much fail... so little common sense. That damn trailer is going to be blocking that road a long while too

Found on https://www.facebook.com/Truckdriverwtfmoments?fref=nf

15th Anniversary Hurst Olds

not the coolest ever car, but the shifter? Among the top 5 coolest

Short of a Lenco, there isn't much cooler in the world of shifters

musclecar shifters, rare to see these anymore. Not enough people enjoy their cars instead of restoring them to original perfection. Aftermarket shifters are cooler than stock is my position

For the record, if it's Hurst, I don't consider it oem... it's Hurst, and to me, strictly aftermarket upgrade cool factor. Bottom is a Hurst Olds 15th anniversary edition. I think the top dual gate was in a Firebird

looks like some good advice

Found on http://distractify.com/mark-pygas/roadtrip-hacks/?ts_pid=2