1959 Cadillac hearse made in Greece
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the B-29 Spearhead, named in honor of the Marines that battled the Japanese for Iwo Jima
Dave L. Rogan, AC, 1st Squadron recalls: "On May 28, 1945, General A.W. Kissner, Chief of Staff, 21st Bomber Command, wrote to General Keller Rockey, Fifth Marine Division, that as a token of respect and appreciation of the great contribution made by the Fifth Marine Division in the taking of Iwo Jima; they desired to name a new B-29 for the them, and to inscribe the Division Insignia on the plane. Our crew was selected for this honor and crew 11A was proud to have a new ship named “The Spearhead”. The brass of the Fifth Marine Division and the 9th BG got together and had a dedication ceremony on Tinian, August 17, 1945. About 100 Marines including their band took part. “The Spearhead” also took part in the ceremony. All in all, it was fun, and since our crew led many missions, “The Spearhead” was an appropriate name. Its two waist gunners were twins (Burton and Langdon Dyer) and as far as I know, were the only twins to fly combat missions together." 25 missions, scrapped i
John Lewis, Oklahoma fireman, entrepreneur, rancher and collector amassed over a 100 pre WW2 vehicles, and now it's all going to auction
Having only a 4th grade education, John joined the Navy in 1943 as a teenager and took pride that he was one of the youngest crew of the submarine U.S.S. Pintado. After John’s service in the Navy he worked as a fireman and an electrician. It was as an electrician that he learned his trade and started Industrial Electric, a thriving business in Lawton, Oklahoma. He collected old vehicles among other things and made a public museum to store and share them in, the Lewis Fire, Transportation and Farm Museum in Lawton Oklahoma. He traveled extensively in the USA to search out old fire engines, and farm and oil-field trucks. He was known locally as a generous man, frequently doing something to help others. They mention free pecan trees given to senior citizens and other civic-minded projects. They say his museum, open to the public since August 1986, is another example of how Lewis tries to make people's lives more interesting and enjoyable. https://www.facebook.com/events/4698442900408
Autoweek has been doing really beautiful covers recently, possibly due to a full facelift of the whole magazine's look
the headline font is now see through and shows the photograph behind it, and they are going to make an effort to increase the use of their helmet icon. That keychain medallion is from the early 60s
2 weeks until the annual Art Center College of Design Pasadena Car Classic!
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it won 'America's Most Beautiful Custom' at the Sacramento Autorama when it debuted.
Matt Fox, owner. Scott Bonowski, builder, Stanford, designer For more cool customs and hot rods, see http://www.roddingrevolutions.com/ https://www.facebook.com/Stevestanforddesigns/photos/a.697437203612779.1073741827.697436353612864/1579468438742980/?type=3&permPage=1
Benson Chevrolet in the heart of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn sold this Camaro new
In 1967, Louis Perricone decided to check out the new ponycar offering from Chevrolet once he heard you could get it stuffed with the stout 396/375hp Turbo-Jet V-8. At the salesman’s desk, he checked off all the right boxes to build a true street performer. He chose that particular L78 package, the M21 four-speed manual trans, and finished it off with the QB 4.56 Positraction rear differential. The SS/RS optioned Camaro was everything a performance oriented motorhead would love . . . and then some. 45 years later, it has about 2,800 miles, mostly by doing quarter-mile runs at Atco, Raceway Park, New York National Speedway, and famed Fountain Avenue. Listed online, it sold with the period-perfect speed parts, from the vintage gauges to the blow-proof bell to the real A and A Stinger hood http://www.hotrod.com/articles/mostly-original-day-two-1967-chevrolet-camaro-big-block-straight-new-yorks-street-race-scene/
Jackie Chan, not just a martial arts movie star legend, he's co-owner of a LMP2 Porsche race car
The #38 Jackie Chan DC Racing Oreca led the race overall with just 70 minutes to go, when the recovering works Porsche 919 Hybrid finally overhauled it for outright honours. But Chan's car – crewed by Ho-Pin Tung, Oliver Jarvis and Thomas Laurent – still claimed class honours, and second place outright of the 2017 Le Mans this past June https://www.motorsport.com/lemans/news/jackie-chan-le-mans-oscar-920284/ but here's something else it did... it beat all the LMP1 cars, as they broke, crashed, or had other problems. So, really, aren't the LMP1 and LMP2 classes no longer relevant? When the lead, stunningly, went to the No. 38 Jackie Chan DC Racing Oreca., an LMP2 car using, like almost all the 23 P2 entries, a spec Oreca chassis, and a spec Gibson 4.2-liter V8. Fortunately for the WEC, and for Porsche, the No. 2 Porsche LMP1 team rallied back and won, only a single lap ahead of Chan’s entry. So what if an LMP2 car had won? And wins again? The WEC has a rule, no factory in