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Although the Cadillac Cyclone never entered mass production, it remains a fascinating piece of automotive history. It made its debut at the opening of the Daytona International Speedway in 1959. Its design drew inspiration from aviation and rocket aesthetics prevalent in the ‘50s. It had large tailfins, which were later reduced in size to resemble the 1963-64 Cadillac range. The iconic bubble top canopy, coated in silver for UV protection, provided a complete 360-degree view and automatically opened along with the sliding electrically operated doors. The canopy could also be stowed in the rear compartment.
The Cyclone featured a 390 cubic-inch front-mounted engine, a rear-mounted automatic transaxle, and an all-wheel independent suspension. Uniquely, the exhaust was pointed out just ahead of the front wheels. The car incorporated a radar-operated collision avoidance system, with radar sensors mounted in twin “nose cones” on the front.
The Cyclone served as a testbed for futuristic styling and cutting-edge technology. While it never graced showrooms, it became a key part of GM’s Motorama, showcasing both aesthetic and technological ideas.
[Sources: Bing Copilot, Wikipedia, HotCars.com and ChicagoAutoShow.com]
[Note: Motorama was an elaborate auto show held by GM from 1949 to 1961. These extravagant events were designed to whet public appetite and boost automobile sales by showcasing fancy concept cars and other special or halo models. One of the cars showcased at a Motorama was the Chevrolet Corvette. Other showcased cars would still turn heads today!]
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"The Spark Plug" (a.k.a. Narrows Light) - captured from South Lubec Road, on the U.S. side of the Lubec Narrows, Johnson Bay, Lubec, Maine
Captured through the trees along the edge of South Lubec Road and Johnson Bay a half mile north of Woodward Point with the southern-most of the two Duck Islands to the left of the "Sparkplug", and Campobello Island in the distance.
This sharp-looking Custom Volkswagen Beetle branded with the classic Mooneyes logo is part of the Mattel Hot Wheels "HW Performance" mainline subseries, which features Hot Wheels with real brands.
This particular Hot Wheels VW Bug possesses all three qualities that I treasure most in Hot Wheels car:
1) It has both a die-cast metal body and a die-cast metal chassis, rare for a mainline (re: regular) Hot Wheels car today, although, since the Custom Volkswagen Beetle is a fairly small Hot Wheels car even by 1/64 scale standards, I don't think using a metal chassis instead of a plastic one is that much of a money drain for Mattel.
2) It's based on an actual licensed car (albeit a heavily-customized one in this case; though Hot Wheels has done at least a dozen different Volkswagen Beetle castings over the past almost half-century so it's not like I don't have plenty of "straight" Volkswagen Beetles). There are some "original" Hot Wheels designs I like such as "Avant Garde", though, even when it comes to fictional Hot Wheels designs, I generally prefer ones that have elements of real cars in them ("Avant Garde" is quite obviously a modern reimagining of the Citroen DS, for example).
3) It has a licensed sponsor logo. I've always been fanatical about wanting actual logos on Hot Wheels cars even when I was a little kid in the late 1970s and early 1980s. And Mooneyes is one of the all-time great racing part sponsor logos, right up there with Champion sparkplugs and Clay Smith Cams' "Mr. Horsepower".
This Custom Volkswagen Beetle is right up there in my top 5 mainline Hot Wheels cars of 2014 (along with "Herbie" the Love Bug Volkswagen Beetle, the two colours of the Mustang Funny Car, and the Morris Mini with the Union Jack on the roof). And I always wanted a Custom Volkswagen Beetle Hot Wheels car in yellow, so that's an extra point for it.
I like to think the owner / driver of this 1975 or '76 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray is a GM retiree, out for a drive in the toy he labored for years to enjoy.
An interesting phenomenon of spending time in Genesee County is that you can usually count the number of imports you see in a fifteen minute stretch on one hand.
(Flint suburb) Burton, Michigan.
Wednesday, August 15, 2012.
Calm now.. iujd_3
Storm moving away...
The Harbor Beach Lighthouse is a "sparkplug lighthouse" located at the end of the north breakwall entrance to the harbor of refuge on Lake Huron
more mechanicery!
car servicing time...!
Spark plugs and cleaned the air filter today... oil and filter tomorrow :)
also got an insane box of all sorts of bits from my Uncle for Project Nerd!
Source: www.autoworldmuseum.com/about.html
Why build an automotive museum? Because one way or another, our lives are touched by the automobile. We remember our parents’ cars, the ones we traveled in with family, the ones we borrowed for our first car date, the first ones we bought. The fast cars, the junkers, the modified ones and the ones we rebuilt—all of them are tied to us in memory. We even dream of cars.
William E. Backer, former owner of Backer Potato Chip Company in Fulton, Missouri, looked back in time and found that a vintage automobile was a thing of fascination. His memories were of old country roads and two lane highways. Bill Backer was an engineer and a builder who loved to tinker. Having built a successful potato chip company, he looked back at the cars that were part of his childhood. Shortly after, he owned a Canadian 1924 Dodge Touring. Dark blue with black fenders and a cloth top. Bill drove his family around the back country roads of Callaway County, Missouri and felt himself touching fading memories.
Not long after he collected the Dodge, Bill had a 1909 Ford Model T. Soon after that, a 1930 Model A. Then a 1929 Cord, a 1931 Rolls Royce Phantom II, a 1957 Chevy Bel Air, and so on. By the mid 1990’s, the number of classic autos in the collection neared 100. Bill found a home for many of his classic cars in an old retail building in Fulton. The Auto World Museum Foundation was formed and a classic car museum was opened to the public. Ten years later, in 2006, the automobile museum was moved to its current home at 200 Peacock Drive in Fulton. It is a building dedicated to the history of vintage and modern automobiles as well as the history of Callaway County and Fulton, Missouri.
After his passing in 2008, his daughter, Vicki McDaniel, assumed leadership of the museum and the collection of cars. Since then, the collection of vintage autos has changed a little. However, her primary passion is for the presentation of antique cars and modern ones in a place that everyone can visit.
The presentation of cars and staging of the museum is the vision of Tom K. Jones, Artistic Director of TKJ Designs in Fulton, Missouri. His concept for the museum was a movement through time and a portrayal of the history of Callaway County, Missouri. Auto World Museum is a stage—a movement through history. Its deep black curtains, scenes from back when, panels of advertising and memorabilia will take you through a history of motion in time. At first, you will visit a period not that long ago, although some say 100 years is a long time. As you move in a clockwise direction through the museum, you will find enticing displays. The simplicity of family drives in the convertible. The decadence of Hollywood and its fancy cars. The sights and sounds of the drive-in as you watched from the comfort of your Studebaker or Corvair. You will ponder when gas prices were really, really low. Finally, you will find yourself nearing the future, with displays of alternative fuel vehicles.
Auto World Museum will spark your curiosity. We hope that you will find that our collection of vintage and modern automobiles fascinates you the way that it did Bill Backer. We hope you will continue the journey with us as we add to the collection over time. We would like to thank William Harrison for his dedication to the research on the autos in the museum.
Note the diagonal tubes bolted across the top of the engine, and additional framing bolted above. No butterfly chokes on the air intakes - the throttles are sliding plates in the brown and brass colored rectangular housing at the bottom of the intakes. At one end of the slide's travel there is a hole just as big as the intake - more efficient than a butterfly valve, no blockage at all. At the other end is a little slot just big enough to let the engine idle. The throttle pedal slides the two slides back and forth and 12 intakes get the same aperture for fuel and air mix. Extra points if you can find the crossbar that links the two banks of slides...
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judy licht working presenting 'full frontal fashion'
piazza duomo, milan, italy
september 2007, hdr
FULL FRONTAL FASHION, the best-known, most authoritative program in fashion, hosts Judy Licht, Christina Ha, Lloyd Boston and James Aguiar provide up-close coverage from the catwalks to the action backstage, with interviews and commentary by leading editors, designers and models, and party coverage by celeb photographer Patrick McMullan. Then, throughout the year, the Full Frontal team goes to the world's top runways, from Paris, to Milan to Miami and more.
Coverage on NYC TV 25 begins on September 10th at 9pm, on ULTRA HD begins on Monday, September 11th at 8pm.
FULL FRONTAL FASHION was the brainchild of Judy Licht, served as Managing Editor, on-air host, interviewer and commentator, conducting designer and celebrity interviews with the famous and the fabulous. Before FULL FRONTAL FASHION, Judy spent five years as the feature correspondent from WABC-TV’s Eyewitness News, where her role was described as, “the sparkplug in residence.” Whether it was food, fashion, or foibles, Ms. Licht specialized in spotting trends well before they were recognized, delivered in her wry, incisive signature style.
Judy Licht (photo) started her career at New York City’s WNYE Channel 25, where she produced and hosted several series including a nationally syndicated news program for children. She moved on to ABC TV’s Kansas City affiliate, where she co-hosted a daily live talk show. Returning to New York, Judy briefly co-hosted Channel 5’s Midday Live, before moving on to The Ten O’Clock News as a general assignment reporter. She was later promoted to co-anchor with John Roland. Born and raised in New York City, Judy Licht is married to advertising executive Jerry Della Femina and they have two children, a daughter, Jessie, and a son, J.T.
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The government appropriated $21,000 in 1881 to construct the Kingsland Point Lighthouse. The site, however, was not on Kingsland Point, but rather on a much cheaper parcel of land in the river itself, ¼ mile off the point. The sparkplug tower was produced by G.W. & F. Smith Iron of Boston, Massachusetts, and was known as the Kingsland Point Lighthouse and the Tarrytown Lighthouse.
Captain Joseph Ackerman lit the light for the first time on October 1, 1883, a ceremony he would repeat many times during his twenty-one years of service at the rock-rimmed cast-iron tower. The 54-foot-tall conical tower consists of five levels. The first level, having a diameter of eighteen feet, served as a combination kitchen/dining room/living room. Bedrooms were located on the next two levels. The fourth level was split into two rooms, a bedroom and a small storeroom. The fifth level stored fog bell equipment, and the lantern room topped it all off.
The only Caisson style lighthouse on the Hudson River, the Tarrytown Lighthouse housed a fourth-order Fresnel lens, which originally exhibited a fixed white light characteristic from a 56-foot focal plane. The characteristic was switched to fixed-red in 1894 and then in 1902, it was changed to flashing red.
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Bonnet Badge on a classic Mini.
A project of mine has been taking photos of old classic Minis in a scrapyard. As my first car was a classic Mini, I still love these cars and have great memories of driving around in my black Mini.
You can see the project here: www.justingreen19.co.uk/mini
I sent the link of my photos to Miniworld and Classic Mini Magazines. Classic Mini never came back to me, but Miniworld emailed back saying they weren't interested in using my photos but would like to know the location of the Minis. I replied "yeah, I bet you would, its classified" as if I'm going to do the ground work for Miniworld and let them go down there and take photos.
Justin
The Robbins Reef Light Station is a sparkplug lighthouse located off Constable Hook in Bayonne, Hudson County, New Jersey, United States, along the west side of Main Channel, Upper New York Bay. The tower and integral keepers quarters were built in 1883. It replaced an octagonal granite tower built in 1839. The U.S. Coast Guard owned and operated the light station until the 2000s.
Source: Wikipedia.
Taken from our balcony stateroom on the Anthem of the Seas, before departing Bayonne, NJ.
I finally got the tattoo I've been wanting for a longgg time, and that is my scooter! I wanted to make it symmetrical, so I added a Lambretta on the other side, with a spark plug in the middle and a target in the background.
The tattoo is on the inside of my left forearm. Done by Adam Potts @ Acme Ink.
The 'slim style' Li series three was the start of a long production run and almost all future large frame models were an evolution of the Li series 3. The Li 3, was a great sixties design, and a lot of the advertising for the scooter used sixties model and icon Jane Mansfield, either sitting or standing on the Li. The body and panel work itself was all new in design, slimmer and sleeker, than the series two it replaced. New headlight, horn cast, slimmer leg shields, panels, rear running boards all helped make the 'slim style' look, well slimmer! Twin single saddle seats were fitted as standard on these machines, although the single dual seat was available as an option should you wish. The new Series three models gained rear frame badges in holders rather then the earlier models fake grilles. These badges wore the model, either Li125 or Li150.
Under the panels technical details mostly stayed the same, although a number of minor changes were made cosmetically. A new carburettor, SH18, featured the float chamber built in under neath the carb instead of the earlier MA/MB side float chamber items. This carburettor gave not only increased miles per gallon, but also helped to increase the overall speed of the new Li. The bulbous kick start stop bulge was dropped from the S1/2 in favour of a more streamlined chain casing. Due to the slimness of the body and floor boards, a kick start pedal with less of a kink out was utilised. Carburettor hose, although retaining the looks of the earlier models did now not need to be as long to bridge the gap between the air box elbow and carburettor. The air box was also given a slight overhaul, slimmer and with a redesigned metal neck and air filter cartridge retaining system.
A more boxy exhaust box, with seperate U bend up to the cylinder was fitted with replaced the box and seperate tail pipe & u bend on previous models. All UK models came with a battery which provided power for the parking lights, which was a legal requirement for UK vehicles at that time. The battery also provided power for the horn and stop light. All other markets received the same direct lighting system that was more common to the Lambretta.
The front suspension was still the same Innocenti design with trailing links sat on buffers, but slightly differing in shape, and thinner. Rear suspension again remained the same coil damper unit combined as on previous models although the was now half an inch shorter. Braking received slight cosmetic changes, and remained drum front and rear. The locking tab washer on the rear hub now sat in a recess in the hub itself, which also gained an extra hole taking the total up to three to allow easier fixing of the locking ring. The rear hub was tightened to its torque setting of 150lbs but the choice of three holes for the locating screw made for easier fixing at the factory torque setting.
With a production so long, in fact the longest of any model, many mid run production changes were made. Early Series 3 Li's used four pole stators which carried over from the second series, later models switched to the to six pole system which used more lighting coils to give better electrics. Gearbox ratios were changed on the 125 models to improve speed. With the changes of new and existing models that were made, so the Li models received them as well. In 1965 the chrome ring underneath the headset was deleted, the gap left by that being taken up by a deeper headset base casting.
In 1967 Innocenti produced a batch of Li 125 models that have now found themselves steeped in a bit of mystery. It is not known why approximatetly 1400 of these models were made, it can only be guessed that they were built in order to fulfil a specific order. On first appearences the Li S4 appears to be a "normal" Li, but on closer inspection the subtle changes can be seen. Gone were the bolt in fork buffers to be replaced by the push in type favoured on other machines at the time, side panels were the clip on type and not the normal handle type. The horn cast crest badge was replaced by an alloy silver coloured badge, with Innocenti wording on a centre blue back ground. Rear frame badge was changed from the Li 125 one as seen before, to the Lambretta Innocenti type as fitted on SX models. Underneath the side panels, the grey plastic tool boxes were fitted. Paint colour wise, it is thought the Li 4 was only ever offered in the pale blue (8070) colour.
As far as it is known, no advertising material was ever produced for this model, hence it is assumed they were built for a specific order. Frame numbers were even changed to read 125Li4.
All in all with its long production run, low costs, and evolution of parts used and fitted the Li series 3 was a commercial success for Innocenti. 143,091 150c models were made, and 146,734 125cc models left the Innocenti factory gates.
Info from Lambretta Club. www.ilambretta.com
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