Showing posts with label trivia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trivia. Show all posts

The cassette player died this year, 2010 was the last year a manufacturer installed one in a car

Lexus was still making the SC430 with a tape deck in 2010... shocking isn't it? !News and photo from the Hooniversehttp://hooniverse.com/2011/02/11/and-now-a-moment-of-silence-for-the-cassette-player/#more-42689

Possibly the only tucker to race is NASCAR

it's all written up, from Dan at Hemmings http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2008/12/24/seeing-really-is-believing-a-tucker-did-indeed-race-in-nascar-and-we-found-the-photo-to-prove-it/

Formula 1 racing, why Americans (and growing numbers of others) don't care, the stats

Since 1983, the sophistication and technological advancements in race car body and engine design have made the race cars far closer in similar capabilities to the point that they are identical, and once on the track, rarely can pass each other, to the extant that the facts show they finish the race in the order they began the race.Ergo, there is no race, no competition, and no point to watching

the Pits at the race track

called that becuase the race cars would driver over open pit lane to stop above his crew that could then quickly get work completed without using a jack to get up under the car. Remember, cars didn't even have oil filters until, what, the 1920's? The model t didn't have an oil filter and had to have the oil changed every 300-400 miles.learned about this (should have been intuitive) and photos

Evolution of the Batmobile, all 70 years of it

This, you have to click on for full sizefound on http://fireballtim.com/blog