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At Berlin's Tegel airport plenty of taxis make ready for new passengers. Here the "best taxi driver in Berlin", with whom I talked about the current FlickrFriday task “Taxi”.
Am Berliner Flughafen Tegel machen sich zahlreiche Taxis für neue Fahrgäste bereit. Hier der „beste Taxifahrer Berlins“, mit dem ich über die aktuelle FlickrFriday Aufgabe „Taxi“ ins Gespräch kam.
A basic circuit for driving one propulsion motor of a tennis machine I'm building. It's half of an H-Bridge, allowing for one direction and break. A microcontroller is to be connected to the two inputs on the MOSFET driver chip.
Safe driving advocates, Juliet and Ben Collins, after the V-Auto by Vodafone safe driving challenge.
British stunt and racing car driver, Ben Collins, with his mother, Juliette. For Vodafone.
Photograph by Felix Clay
Does this look like a small car to you? They got into this spot by driving over the sidewalk behind the parking spot. Way to go, Eco-Balance Plumbing.
Ben Collins checks his score after taking the V-Auto by Vodafone safe driving challenge.
British stunt and racing car driver, Ben Collins, for Vodafone.
Photograph by Felix Clay
JBH387V, a Ford R1014 with Duple coachwork has never turned a wheel as a PSV. It was new in July 1979 to the Road Transport Industry Training Board where it was used to train drivers to PSV standard. After its role with the RTITB had ended, it continued in a training role with Manchester Training.
The coach at the side is KGV43P, a former Beestons, Hadleigh Bedford YMT with bodywork by Plaxton.
Drivers eye view from number 2 cab of 66160 showing the driver information gauges from far left to right we have:
Main Res and Train Pipe gauge (unlit, bulb failure)
Duplex brake gauge cylinder pressures - one for each bogie.
Air flow meter
Train brake pipe pressure gauge
Speedometer
Ammeter
To the far right is the GSMR digital cab communication radio above the now redundant NRN radio.
The view is looking West along loading line 8 at Gasgoine Wood sidings towards Milford.
Leyland Tiger Duple Caribbean 2 C495 LJV had been new to Peter Sheffield of Cleethorpes and came to Stgaecoach with the purchase of Grimsby Cleethorpes Transport. Its manual gearbox made it a candidate for the training fleet and it was thus occupied when seen in Brighton in August, 2003, as Sussex Coastline 59014. The red livery originated from its time in Cumberland's Coachlines fleet.
Remember to ALWAYS check the review mirror! Riley must have had some driver's ed training!!
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An unlucky stage for Pep Vila driving the Trakker, who loses one position in the overall ranking, finishing in eleventh place. The Spaniard continues to fight to enter the top ten: follow his race!
I had a ride down to the Avenue Drivers club meeting near the centre of Bristol to be met with a fantastic turn out of classic and custom cars. There were cars of all shapes sizes and prices, this I chose for my View 52 this week was not just because I love this car but, I love the fact that it has the ST1 number plate, for the younger ones in the audience please read below and I hope it helps .
The Saint, a 60's Tv show, a mystery spy thriller television series that aired in the UK on ITV between 1962 and 1969.
The Saint's 1800 Volvo, and Roger Moore as The Saint
The classic image of Roger Moore driving his Volvo sports car in the 1960's TV show, The Saint, endures even today. The Volvo Car Corporation supplied the "The Saint" television producers a total of five P1800 models for use on their show. Volvo happily supplied the first one in 1962, registered as 71 DXC, within a week of its being requested.
In 1964, Volvo moved production of the P1800 line from England to Sweden, and sent one of the new 1800S models, registration 77 GYL, to the set of "The Saint". The first car was then chopped up for better interior shot access.
Three years later, in 1967, Volvo supplied yet another car. This car, however, didn't get much use as it was wrecked in a crash fairly soon after its arrival. The production company did manage to salvage some of the parts, and used them to update the 1964 car with the new straight bumpers, chrome, and more modern trim rings for the wheels.
A short time after the crash, Volvo supplied two more cars. One, registered as NUV 647E, was used for Roger Moore's personal use, and the other, NUV 648E, was used for filming.
If you would like to see one of the cars, the "Cars of the Stars" museum in Keswick, England has the official 'Saint' car on display. Their car is the fully restored 1964, registration 77 GYL, with a giant Saint logo on the hood.
Police say a 15-year-old driver allegedly hit Const. Garrett Styles during a traffic stop east of Newmarket Tuesday morning.
Styles later died in hospital. The teen, whose identity hasn’t been disclosed, sustained serious injuries in the crash and was taken to Sick Kids hospital where he remains in police custody.
Styles, 32, left behind his wife Melissa and their two small children — a two-and-a-half year old daughter, and a nine-week-old son.
“When I got the call saying it was him and all I could think about was just his wife and his kids. I know he was devoted to them,” Rob Dobbin, Styles’ cousin, told CityNews.
At a news conference on Tuesday afternoon, York Regional Police Chief Eric Jolliffe said Styles had tried to pull over a Dodge Caravan around 5 a.m. on Highway 48 near Herald Road.
“While Styles was at the driver’s door, the van accelerated. He was dragged 300 metres before the vehicle rolled, pinning Styles,” Jolliffe said.
Styles was able to issue a distress call as he was pinned under the vehicle. In a recording, Styles can be heard saying, “I gotta car on top of me, help!” A dispatch later tried to reassure him that police and paramedics were on the way.
“We might have some other people injured here, too, I dunno,” Styles told the operator.
Styles was rushed to Southlake Hospital in Newmarket with critical injuries where he passed away about an hour later. The York homicide unit is investigating. No charges have been laid.
Styles was a seven-year veteran of the force, and comes from a policing family. His father, retired Staff Sgt. Garry Styles, is a 33-year member of the force who just retired in January. Garrett Styles had recently written his sergeant exam, and passed with 82 per cent.
A Facebook memorial page was set up within minutes of the officer’s name being released and has since received hundreds of messages of condolence
Funeral arrangements have not yet been released.
Styles is the tenth York Regional Police officer to fall in the line of duty.
Det. Const. Robert Plunkett was killed Aug. 2, 2007. He was hit by a vehicle and pinned to a tree while trying to apprehend a suspect in an airbag theft ring.
Jolliffe made a brief statement outside the Newmarket hospital Tuesday morning, forwarding the family’s request for privacy. Jolliffe took over for former chief Armand La Barge late last year and this is the first officer that has died since he took the helm.
The fallen officer is the second in as many weeks to be injured on the job. Peterborough Lakefield Police Const. Keith Calderwood was shot twice last Wednesday while executing a search warrant at a suspected crack house in Lindsay, Ont., about 130 kilometres northeast of Toronto. He was released from hospital this weekend.
Here’s a look at officers killed in the line of duty in York Region:
Const. John Fisk, King Township, 1804;
Const. William Boyd, York County, 1901;
Const. Thomas Kirk, York County, 1930;
Const. Lewis R. Durant, Markham Township, 1956;
Const. Edward G. Holdsworth, Whitchurch Township, 1966;
Const. Gerald F. Mills, Whitchurch Township, 1968;
Const. Douglas F. Tribbling, York Regional Police, 1984;
Const. William J. Grant, York Regional Police, 1984;
Det.- Const. Robert Plunkett, York Regional Police, 2007 and;
Const. Garrett Styles, York Regional Police, 2011
When they are not laying on the gas, the drivers are all part of the same great adventure. Follow all the rankings of the Dakar 2015!
The drivers bulkheads are in place. The one you see here will at some point need holes drilled through it to fit the change giving equipment but for now is complete with aluminium trim fitted at each end.
The girl in the blue suite next to the #40 is 20 year old Kristin Bumbera next to her car. Hot female driver, very nice. :)
Allstate Texas Thunder 150 (NASCAR Grand National series) -- Allstate Texas Racefest at Thunder Hill Raceway south of Austin in Kyle, Texas.
Tram Driver controlling his Tram. Colour graded to look like this photo has been taken with Kodachrome film.
Junior Johnson is behind the bar in the Silverado Saloon, which is across the street from the U.S. Marshal Jailhouse, which is next to a hangman's gallows, which is just down the dirt street from the Livery Stable, which is across from Slim Pickens Mercantile.
The 80-year-old NASCAR Hall of Fame driver is decked from head to toe in cowboy gear as a woman dressed in dance hall attire poses with him for a picture.
"Having that picture of Junior behind the bar makes it worth building it," Dale Earnhardt Jr. says of the saloon.
Welcome to Whisky River.
Otherwise known as Earnhardt's man cave.
This miniature Old West town in the middle of Earnhardt's 200-acre estate, complete with life-size plastic horses, bears, deer and buffalo, is the scene of a commercial shoot for the Sprint All-Star Race on this rainy Saturday. Mark Martin, Paul Menard and Carl Edwards have joined Johnson for the shoot.
"It's a neat deal," Johnson says as he gets into character. "If you like this kind of stuff, it's fun."
NASCAR's most popular driver loves this kind of stuff, but mostly has kept Whisky River to himself for much of the past six years since it went from a concept that Earnhardt and friends drew on a piece of paper to a full-fledged town.
But as we've seen over the past 18 months, from going public with his girlfriend of almost two years at the December Sprint Cup awards banquet to allowing outsiders onto his property, he is becoming more comfortable with himself and his celebrity status.
"For the longest time I was just real nervous about privacy and people prying into my personal business," Earnhardt says later in the day, after an autograph session at the Charlotte Convention Center.
"I got more and more comfortable with that. I see it as less and less harmful for me."
Earnhardt was a bit of recluse early in his career, in part because he is naturally shy and in part because his celebrity was so big that he needed an escape to get away from the masses who regularly hound him at the track.
But the older he gets, the 37-year-old son of the late Dale Earnhardt wants fans to understand what he's all about, who he really is, that he is more than a race car driver who hasn't won a Cup race since the 2008 season.
"That's something that is important to me, that people know me and understand me," Earnhardt says. "It's kind of like looking through somebody's record collection. It shows a little about them."
Whisky Rivers speaks volumes about Earnhardt. It shows he likes to party and have a good time with friends and family in a safe environment. Next to the saloon is "The Hilton" hotel, which has three small bedrooms with bunk beds so those who have had too much fun have a place to recover.
It shows he likes nostalgia, particularly old Clint Eastwood spaghetti Westerns.
It shows he has a sense of humor, particularly when it comes to the life-size plastic Forrest Gump sitting on a bench at the top of a hill overlooking his mother's house.
"My sister got me that as kind of a goofy gift for a birthday present," Earnhardt says of sister Kelley, who also has a house on the property. "I didn't know what to do with it. We just kind of set him around in some places. Eventually, I built that house for my mom and I set him up on the hill staring down at her trying to drive her crazy."
Honestly, it is a bit jarring. No box of chocolates, though.
"We put hats on him and s--- all the time … helmets," Earnhardt says. "It's pretty fun."
"Dirty Mo Acres," the name Earnhardt gave to his estate, also tells you how much Earnhardt likes preserving parts of his history and racing history. At one end of his dirt go-kart track is an old, faded orange Unocal 76 water tower that he got from Talladega Superspeedway.
Spread throughout the woods are about 40 wrecked stock cars, some that Earnhardt drove and some that were gifts from other drivers.
The cars originally were called "yard ornaments." Now they're called markers for paths that Earnhardt roams on his Polaris Razor. You know, go to the No. 8 Budweiser car and take a right …
Earnhardt is trying to acquire an old Indy car from Penske Racing through Brad Keselowski, who lives nearby on two acres he purchased from Earnhardt.
"That would be the coolest thing to set out there in the woods," Earnhardt says.
The Old West town and land around it also speaks of Earnhardt's popularity. There are two living and breathing buffalo named "Laverne" and "Shirley" and two longhorn steers among the many gifts he has received.
The commercial shoot also speaks volumes about Earnhardt. He turned down a chance to appear in it for the second straight year because he is not guaranteed a spot in the All-Star Race, although everyone knows he will be voted in again by the fans.
"That would be a little bit arrogant," Earnhardt says. "Self-assuming, it's never a good quality."
Say what you want about the driver's talent, he is a genuinely good guy. He may be a little eccentric having an Old West town, but what's wrong with that?
Martin has his version of the man cave, only it's in an airplane hangar with a gym. Edwards, who likes his privacy so much he lives in his hometown of Columbia, Mo., instead of the Charlotte area, jokingly says he may have to build his own town one day.
You know Johnson in the day had his hideaways where he made moonshine.
Earnhardt has just taken it to another level, going from planning a 1,000-square-foot tree house that his sister discouraged because he might fall out of it to an old town that was born from seeing the one Willie Nelson built on a rerun of "60 Minutes."
"When I moved onto this property, I [had] lived across from DEI for a long, long time," Earnhardt says of Dale Earnhardt Inc., the company that his father started. "We had a basement that was on '[MTV] Cribs.' We used to party down there all the time, which was fine. It was hard to clean up, a pain in the ass, and people would wander upstairs and all that s---.
"I said, 'Man, I want to have something I can have parties at but not have to worry about feeling I'm tearing my house apart.'"
He's got that with Whisky River.
Now he's got the comfort level to share it with the world.
David Newton
Taken for the latest of the Kiwi photographer's challenge briefs, under the title: 'Days gone by.'
I wanted to try and avoid taking photos of the more obvious stuff, period clothing, old rusty cars, wrinkly old dudes sat next to wee kids, all that kinda sentimental stuff. Not me really, as I'm sure you've gathered I care absolutely zip for sickly sweet sentimentality, despite the fact I'm soft as a brush... ;-)
So, for those of you who won't switch off in boredom right about now, I love driving. Still here? Good. When I was in the UK, it was a regular thing to think 'sod it!' and jump in the car and head off to North Wales, or into the depths of The Highlands and go and enjoy the finer points of road, car and driver on some of the better roads Britain had to offer. To coin the tagline of my preferred publication of the motoring variety, it was all about 'the thrill of driving' and it runs through me from head to toe. I care not for the slammed cars with stupid bodykits and fat stereos, hanging out in car parks trying to look cool whilst impressing 13 year old borderline females isn't for me. For the US reading amongst you, street racing sucks, and drag racing is the biggest waste of a motoring fascination there could be. And please god, don't utter the words 'dang' at me in reply. Be less redneck. :-P
As far as I'm concerned if it encourages, develops and polishes the connection between the driver and the car, and how you can dissect (note I didn't use the word 'attack') your favourite road it's all good. :-)
The thing is, since being in NZ my ability to enjoy this part of who I am has suffered badly. No car of my own yet, no chances to get right out of the city to enjoy roads away from the NZ militant Police. It's driving me nuts.... One day, it will happen, this is one part of me I'm not letting go. I promise to do another one of these when I get my AE86 or 997 GT3 RS sorted. :-P
(580EX, footwell of car using 10m off-camera cord.)
Oulton Park is a great circuit that has yet to be spoilt with run off areas the size of Brighton Beach and, as such, suits historic motor sport down to the ground. Drivers enjoy it as do spectators, who have the freedom to wander and watch almost at will. But it has to be said, today’s racing was boring. Maybe it’s too early in the year, maybe the grids were too small, or maybe the races, one lasting seventy-five minutes, were just too long.
Funnily enough, it was the race with the smallest entry that was the most exciting. Just eight cars started the Old Hall Trophy FF 1600 race but Douglas Crosbie and Samuel Carrington-Yates had a right ding dong battle for second place with neither giving an inch. In the end the two Van Diemans were beaten by the faster Ray GRS09 of Neil Alberico, with Douglas second.
The afternoon began with the Clay Hill Trophy 1970s Celebration Race, an easy win for Russell Paterson in the orange Morgan Plus Eight. The two Porsche 911 RSRs of Mark Bates and Paul Howells followed him home some thirty seconds adrift but it was the sideways Escort RS1800 of Mark Wright that provided a modicum of entertainment. Only eight cars finished.
The Pre-1966 Touring Car Race was jolly good fun with many battles breaking out during the sixty minutes of close encounters. Henry Mann seemed a might surprised to be given the chequered flag in his red Alan Mann Cortina, beating the similar Lotus of David Hall by seven seconds, while the Mustang of Dowd and Cooke went off song and although setting fasted qualifying time struggled to finish third. Further down in the pack, the Nick Smith Mini stormed home fourth leaving ex-F1 driver Roberto Moreno to die a death and retire. Retro-Speed favourites Andy Harrison and Tony Jardine peddled the red peril home to a well-judged thirteenth.
It should have rained for the Knickerbrook Trophy for World Sportscars but it didn’t, so the gaggle of Chevrons fought it out with the lone Lola for overall honours in the dry, depriving the spectators of at least one unpredictable race. That the Minshaws led the field home in their ultra rapid B8 was no big surprise. The same could not be said for the Lyons Lola T70 MK3b that popped and banged its way around the circuit for thirty minutes before eventually finishing well and truly last.
At 16:15 ten Pre-1966 GT cars set of on a seventy-five-minute marathon that had everybody falling asleep. The Mike Whitaker TVR Griffith stormed off into the distance and then slowed to a steady cruise after the Schryver/Hadfield Lotus 26R showed it lacked the consistent pace to mount a challenge. Everyone continued circulating, probably feeling ever lonely and unnecessarily burning fuel, until to everyone’s relief and with darkness in the air, the flag fell. The Marcos 1800GT of Tice and Conoly finished third while the pretty dark blue Diva GT of Aylett and Farrell led the Austin Healey 100/4 home at the tail end.
I came away feeling the Masters Series was jumping the gun. Like the Mille Miglia it needs glamour and sunshine to attract the crowds, both were missing from Oulton Park. For the organisers of this prestigious series of Championship gatherings, surely the season really begins in Barcelona.
Strobist info: SB-80DX + orange gel from the right, two bare 80DXs behind the car. Tungsten WB. Triggered optically by on-camera 430EX. First curtain sync, 0,5 sec.
The forklift driver is no longer needed here – and he's not exactly happy about that. He should have known, since this is the face print he came with...
NRMA Drivers Seat steps behind the wheel for a first drive experience of the latest performance offering form Volvo.
You can check out the full review of the Volvo V60 T5 R-Design here; www.mynrma.com.au/motoring/reviews/car-reviews/volvo/volv...