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This was a freshly forged batch of Machine Plate Cuffs that were out for sale at the River Arts Festival in Memphis, 2016.
And thus I bring you my favourite family car of all time, bar none, all things considered, king of the hill, lord of the manor, master of all it surveys, the Range Rover P38! :D
Why do I love this car so much when the original was a classic that changed the world of motoring? Because it combined an updated version of that original winning design with some of the perks and premiums of the 1990's. The Classic Range Rover is indeed a fantastic machine, and one of those rare instances where sense and logic perforated into the ranks of British Leyland. But by the time I was born in the early 90's the car was very much looking its age, a tired 60's design mixed with what was starting to become a comparatively under-equipped interior. The only way the Range Rover was going to survive the 90's was to shape up, and thus in 1990, Rover Group (the descendant of British Leyland) put together a plan to design a new car under the chassis codenumber P38A (or just P38 for short). Four years of development and £300 million later, the car was launched to a whirlwind of critical acclaim.
Launched in 1994, the Range Rover P38 was the last Land Rover machine to be designed by Rover, and included the very best in cutting-edge technology to mix the go-anywhere do-anything raunchiness of the Classic, with the luxury and majesty of an upmarket saloon car. The first major difference between the old and new was the option of engines. For those who didn't intend to take these cars to the mountains and go driving off cliffs, then there was the humble BMW 2.5L V8, but for those who wished to conquer Everest and still have enough time in the day to lacerate the rest of the Himalayas, there was the original 4.5 & 4.6L Rover V8 from the original. Another later addition to this fray of power units was what was later dubbed the 'Overfinch', which was powered by a 5.7L General Motors V8, for if you wanted that extra edge. Jeremy Clarkson once demonstrated the power of the Overfinch by having a drag race with a Ford Focus, whilst pulling a trailer upon which was another Ford Focus, to which the Range Rover won by an absolute mile!
However, what people were interested the most was on the inside. The interior of the Range Rover P38 was very much similar to that of the original, with 5 seats, good space in the boot, and various other trim options depending on your preference. However, the new Range Rover came with a more personal touch, this being dubbed the 'Autobiography' service. For a little extra, Land Rover would happily fill out your preference for any optional extras or personalising of your machine. Leather on the seats, wood veneer, paintwork, these were just some of the features that you could select, not to mention the number of gadgets you could insist on as well, including reclining seats, on-board engine management systems, SATNAV, remote control locking that also resets the seats to their original position, etc. The car is also incredibly safe too, a 6-foot, 3 ton block of steel hurtling through the countryside, and the high driving position meant that you could feel a sense of security and comfort as you looked down on lesser mortals in their normal cars.
So, to summarize, the Range Rover P38 is the best car in the world bar none because it is big, safe, comfortable, very well equipped, extremely reliable, powerful, beautifully designed and all around the best thing anyone could possibly drive...
...if they could afford it!
The problem with the P38 is that it is a very, very, very expensive car to both buy and run. At £40,000 it wasn't an easy car to get your hands on when new in 1994, especially after a massive recession, and if you went for the Long-Wheelbase 'Vogue' or SE (Special Equipment) versions, you'd be forking out more towards £50,000, and if you went for an 'Autobiography' job or an Overfinch if you were really edgy, you'd have to be an eccentric millionaire!
Next was actually running it. These days when you come across Range Rover P38's you'll find that most people have the 2.5L BMW engine because of the fact that it was less expensive in terms of fuel consumption. The Rover V8 and Overfinch versions on the other hand, you'd be very lucky to get yourself 9 Miles to the Gallon out of them! You'd be spending more time at Petrol Stations than anywhere else!
And then there's the image when owning a Range Rover. Today modern Range Rovers are very mundane cars in comparison to what they were back in 1994. If you owned a brand new P38 back in 1994, everyone would notice, and everyone would hate you! They'd hate you on a cellular level, on an atomic level even! If you were a person on the street, you'd think 'Egotist', if you were an environmentally minded person, you'd think 'Planet homicidal murderer', if you were any other motorist, you'd think 'Wideboy'. The fact that you had the audacity to go out and buy a gas guzzling luxury SUV which chewed up petrol at 9MPG, had an interior lined with 4 cows and half the New Forest, and was generally a bigger car than theirs in more ways than one, they would absolutely loathe you!
However, the seeds with the P38 were sown and the Range Rover found itself into the hands of a newer, wider ranging audience, this audience being the celebrities and superstars of the 1990's TV and Music scene. No person with a regular salary could possibly risk the Range Rover, but the new money lapped them up like warm milk. With this new demographic in mind, Land Rover very much changed their attitude on the Range Rover, moving it from being a practical ground-covering all terrain vehicle to an item of 'bling-bling'. In 2002 the P38 was replaced by the newer L322, and it was clear from the start that this new Range Rover was built not to climb mountains, but to climb over legions of fans as they huddled around the celebrities of Hollywood and Dubai. Chances are a modern L322 Range Rover and the later L405 have never seen a muddy puddle, and chances are they never will, but their comfortable lives in the spotlights of celebrities can all be owed to the endearing design of the original P38 that dominated the 1990's, and brought that original British Leyland dream of an international conquering car to reality...
...24 years late mind you but ho hum...
Photo by Christian Montone: May 2010.
About 11" square, so this is a biggie. Lots of room for a hoop, or you can use it as a fun project pouch.
I machine pieced the hexies. Plain back with random straight line quilting.
I truly hope you like it partner.
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Not the best quality video, but gives a sense of the lighting effects added to the Haunted Mansion: random flickering/burning out on the two exterior doorway lights, and random 2-channel lightning inside the building and in the clock tower with the vampire.
Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine - Sheriff Fatman.
1989.
A side:
Sheriff Fatman
B side:
R.S.P.C.E.
Twin Tub With Guitar
Everybody's Happy Nowadays
Released in 1989
12" Vinyl.
Levitation Photograph of daughter in air and trying to reach a fruit juice can vending machine button.
8-27-2013
We definitely have a feeling of autumn this Labor Day. The first weekend of September has me waking up to 43F and it feels a little nip outside. We will be moving back into the mid eighties this week
Notice all the belts on a threshing machine. It is not a very safe place for children unless they are carefully supervised. I can remember as a youngster being continually warned to stay away from the machine.
This is my entry for the Modified Machines LUGNuts build challenge. Its a 68' Pontiac GTO dragracer. This model is called "The Great One". Its not my overinflated opinion on the build, but rather...that is what they called the '68 GTO. They also called it a Goat...but...um...The Great One just sounds better. My ladyfriend Sue asked me to build her dream car and this is what she wanted. She has good taste in cars, eh?
One of the many, many companies helped by National Accounting Machines. Here are a few more:
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Working The 627T 12.15 Barnetby Ea Lwr Sdg Otm To Doncaster D.C.E Sdgs. According To Realtime Trains The Route And Timings Were
Barnetby Ea Lwr Sdg Otm 12.15 No Report
Wrawby Jn 12.19 . 12.16 3E
Scunthorpe F.O.B. Jn 12.30 . 12.29 3/4 RT
Scunthorpe 12.36 . 12.34 3/4 1E
Crowle 12.46 . 12.45 RT
Thorne Jn 12.57 . 12.54 1/4 2E
Hatfield & Stainforth 12.59 . 12.56 1/4 2E
Kirk Sandall Jn 13.03 . 12.59 3/4 3E
Bentley Jn 13.05 1/2 . 13.02 1/2 2E
Doncaster [DON] 13.11 1/2 To 13.20 13.11 . 13.20 RT
Donc. Marshgate Jn 13.21 1/2 . 13.06 3/4 14E
Doncaster D.C.E Sdgs. 13.24 . 13.09 15E
Vending machine culture is a very special culture in Japan. Everywhere you go, you'll sure see one on the street. There're many kind of machine available, from toy to tobacco, beer, to soft drink. Even some of the ramen shop need you to buy food ticket from the machine. One special thing about the softdrink machine is they have hot drink, this is very helpful especially the weather is cold during the winter.
I've shot a few of mine. Here's my coworker and friend's 3Rensho. The rack is made from an old porcelain coated "DANGER - Explosives" sign found in the Powerhouse(an old Portland Punk house) among the many old signs left over from its earlier days. It's a custom TCB Racks work(Tad's racks fold flat and fit into a pizza box). I'm working on taking operations over and the stock racks will be back into production once I learn the ropes a bit more.
Hasselblad 500C/M
Planar CF 80
Ilford Delta 100 Pro
D76 1+1 10.5min@70º
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Delta flight DL137 is moments away from touchdown with Captain Mike Hayes at the controls of the 18 year old A330-200 performing the flight from Amsterdam-Detroit. The A330 is known for its exceptionally smooth landings due to the tilted landing gear, giving it the nickname "the butter machine".
Just a small creation I designed after a machine we have at my job. It's not much, but I think little details like this can make a bigger MOC a more realistic.
Danuser Machine Company in Fulton Missouri by Notley Hawkins Photography. Design by Simon Oswald Architecture of Columbia Missouri. Taken with a Canon EOS 5D Mark IV camera with a TS-E17mm f/4L lens at Æ’/8.0 with a 1/13 second exposure at ISO 200. Processed with Adobe Lightroom CC.
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Lewis Machine Gun. American invention which the US Army rejected in 1912. Taken to Europe, it gained acceptance and was in production at the start of World War I. Used by most of the human race, except for the Vatican. The US Army adopted it when the US entered World War I. Used in both world wars. Last time used in combat in the 1990s.
The Indiana World War Memorial is a monumental building, modeled after the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, conceived in 1919 to honor the veterans of World War I. It houses a military museum which I visited on October 25, 2019.
I told some of you last Thursday of the principles of the Time Machine, and showed you the actual thing itself, incomplete in the workshop. There it is now, a little travel-worn, truly; and one of the ivory bars is cracked, and a brass rail bent; but the rest of it’s sound enough. I expected to finish it on Friday; but on Friday, when the putting together was nearly done, I found that one of the nickel bars was exactly one inch too short, and this I had to get remade; so that the thing was not complete until this morning. It was at ten o’clock today that the first of all Time Machines began its career. I gave it a last tap, tried all the screws again, put one more drop of oil on the quartz rod, and sat myself in the saddle. I suppose a suicide who holds a pistol to his skull feels much the same wonder at what will come next as I felt then. - H. G. Wells