More Of The Same
Feb. 20th, 2012 10:35 pm
I'm not done, probably, but I feel close enough to that point.
Photoshop Phodder
Feb. 18th, 2012 03:23 pm
A NASCAR Dodge Charger for 2012, altered to the shade of orange used for the General Lee Charger in THE DUKES OF HAZZARD. I did this because of the Bubba Watson/General Lee/Phoenix racetrack story in the news.
Sports Other Than Football
Feb. 6th, 2011 02:59 pmStill going through my research addiction on racing sports cars and GTs and kit cars and so on. Latest question running through my mind: "What are the ultimate racing cars built by the marques that are/were cars my family owned?"
* Oldsmobile. The final racing Oldmobiles were mainly in IMSA's last years before the reorganization to American LeMans. In addition to Olds-engined WSC cars (the Riley & Scott, Spice, and Courage chief among them), race-configured Aurora sedans were competing in the GT3/GTS-1 classes.
* Chevy. Well, the Corvette and Camaro programs are on-going of course, as well as ongoing NASCAR ubiquity.
* Ford. Mustangs, NASCAR, GT40, Probe GTP--take your pick.
* Pontiac. The final version GTO saw action in GrandAm just before the marque's demise. There was also a Drift/GT-configured Solstice or two. And Pontiac-powered prototype racers in ALMS.
* Buick. NASCAR (up to twenty years ago), dragsters, GTP cars, but not much lately. Buick is sponsoring Holden race cars for Asian circuits, but it's not the same.
* Dodge. The Viper WAS the ultimate racing Dodge, but 2010 was the final year for the car. Can the Challenger pick up where the Viper left off?
* MG. There is a new MG LeMans car? Hmm. Need to find out more about it.
* Toyota. NASCAR, Formula, tuners, drift--they're all over the place.
* Nissan. Z Cars in GT, of course, plus prototypes, touring, drift, some Formula.
* Audi. Dominating P1 in ALMS for years. Plus running in GT, touring, drift, and so on.
* AMC. Well, when I got my Concord, they had already faded from the pale, got acquired by Renault and then Chrysler, and had become Eagle. Their ultimate racers were and always will be the Javelin/AMX family.
Have I left anything out? Must come back to this later.
PS: As a matter of fact, I left out:
* Mercury. NASCAR, hot rod dragsters, Cougars and Capris in IMSA...but not much after 1990.
* Oldsmobile. The final racing Oldmobiles were mainly in IMSA's last years before the reorganization to American LeMans. In addition to Olds-engined WSC cars (the Riley & Scott, Spice, and Courage chief among them), race-configured Aurora sedans were competing in the GT3/GTS-1 classes.
* Chevy. Well, the Corvette and Camaro programs are on-going of course, as well as ongoing NASCAR ubiquity.
* Ford. Mustangs, NASCAR, GT40, Probe GTP--take your pick.
* Pontiac. The final version GTO saw action in GrandAm just before the marque's demise. There was also a Drift/GT-configured Solstice or two. And Pontiac-powered prototype racers in ALMS.
* Buick. NASCAR (up to twenty years ago), dragsters, GTP cars, but not much lately. Buick is sponsoring Holden race cars for Asian circuits, but it's not the same.
* Dodge. The Viper WAS the ultimate racing Dodge, but 2010 was the final year for the car. Can the Challenger pick up where the Viper left off?
* MG. There is a new MG LeMans car? Hmm. Need to find out more about it.
* Toyota. NASCAR, Formula, tuners, drift--they're all over the place.
* Nissan. Z Cars in GT, of course, plus prototypes, touring, drift, some Formula.
* Audi. Dominating P1 in ALMS for years. Plus running in GT, touring, drift, and so on.
* AMC. Well, when I got my Concord, they had already faded from the pale, got acquired by Renault and then Chrysler, and had become Eagle. Their ultimate racers were and always will be the Javelin/AMX family.
Have I left anything out? Must come back to this later.
PS: As a matter of fact, I left out:
* Mercury. NASCAR, hot rod dragsters, Cougars and Capris in IMSA...but not much after 1990.
Useless Car-Related Question...
Nov. 26th, 2010 06:01 pmHas anybody yet built a new-generation Superbird based from the new-generation Challenger?
I've already taken it for a given that somebody, somewhere, is building a new-generation Dukes of Hazzard General Lee based on the Challenger. Just because.
Being the weirdo that I am, I'm contemplating a Chrysler Cordoba pimp-out of the Challenger. I'll never be able to afford to make it happen, tho'.
I've already taken it for a given that somebody, somewhere, is building a new-generation Dukes of Hazzard General Lee based on the Challenger. Just because.
Being the weirdo that I am, I'm contemplating a Chrysler Cordoba pimp-out of the Challenger. I'll never be able to afford to make it happen, tho'.
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mravac_kid Asked For It
Jun. 10th, 2010 02:58 pmUnder the hood:
Until just a few hours ago it was the last car in Tennessee to have a Freon-based air conditioning system. Now it has the updated, more environmentally-friendly internal climate control hardware.
Until just a few hours ago it was the last car in Tennessee to have a Freon-based air conditioning system. Now it has the updated, more environmentally-friendly internal climate control hardware.
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Hello! Mr. Chips
Jun. 9th, 2010 03:15 pmOr "Tech Envy I Can Use".
Got a Father's Day circular from Radio Shack and saw the specs on a memory chip to fit my camera, for $25. SIXTEEN TIMES the memory I'm using now. Room for over 2700 pictures, or TWO HOURS of cheap-@$$ low-rez silent video.
I can dig it. Wonder if I can swing it someday.
* * *
Dad is over at our elderly lady neighbor's place, chatting and doing odd jobs for her and so on. When he finishes, he'll bring her beloved Chrysler Cordoba here overnight so he can take it to her mechanic tomorrow morning. Again, Dad jokes to me every so often that he'll lobby for her to leave the car to me in her will.
* * *
Mum is re-reading Black Tie Affair as prep for re-typing it for a re-issue. She got the rights back from Kensington and not only is it a slam-dunk for an e-book version, but a friend of hers who produces audio books wants it.
* * *
Inner Child got a huge helium balloon from the used-car branch of Ted Russell in Knoxville just as they were closing overnight. Dunno how big it really is as I had to deflate it down to 27" so it could fit through Moonshine's back door.
It's raining and Moonshine really needs a wash. Sometime this week, I promise.
Got a Father's Day circular from Radio Shack and saw the specs on a memory chip to fit my camera, for $25. SIXTEEN TIMES the memory I'm using now. Room for over 2700 pictures, or TWO HOURS of cheap-@$$ low-rez silent video.
I can dig it. Wonder if I can swing it someday.
* * *
Dad is over at our elderly lady neighbor's place, chatting and doing odd jobs for her and so on. When he finishes, he'll bring her beloved Chrysler Cordoba here overnight so he can take it to her mechanic tomorrow morning. Again, Dad jokes to me every so often that he'll lobby for her to leave the car to me in her will.
* * *
Mum is re-reading Black Tie Affair as prep for re-typing it for a re-issue. She got the rights back from Kensington and not only is it a slam-dunk for an e-book version, but a friend of hers who produces audio books wants it.
* * *
Inner Child got a huge helium balloon from the used-car branch of Ted Russell in Knoxville just as they were closing overnight. Dunno how big it really is as I had to deflate it down to 27" so it could fit through Moonshine's back door.
It's raining and Moonshine really needs a wash. Sometime this week, I promise.
Vending This In Honor Of kiffie
Apr. 10th, 2010 05:56 pm( Don't Let The Crown Vics And Chargers Of The World Get You Down )
And in the interest of full disclosure, at the Turn of the Nineties I drove a Crown Vic. Used to belong to my mermaid aunt, and we bought it from her when she couldn't drive as my mom's car, and when my mom couldn't drive I took it over. Second worst car I ever had.
And in the interest of full disclosure, at the Turn of the Nineties I drove a Crown Vic. Used to belong to my mermaid aunt, and we bought it from her when she couldn't drive as my mom's car, and when my mom couldn't drive I took it over. Second worst car I ever had.
As in the car belonging to a family friend.
Ollie, the elderly lady for whom we wrangled television antennae earlier this year, took her 1979 Chrysler Cordoba luxury coupe in to the dealer to have the broken windshield wiper motor replaced, but they were also about to saddle her with a truckload of "scheduled maintenance" afterward, so she called us about it a few days ago. A round of phone tag later, we got her to beg off the rest of the maintenance with the dealer, and she reconnected with her usual mechanic, and then Dad and I picked up the car from the dealer to return it to her. Of course, we had to beat off prospective buyers with very large sticks. The car will get due maintenance--just at a point when Ollie can afford it.
Dad (with a dubious level of seriousness) said he'd lobby for Ollie to leave the car to me in her Will.
Ollie, the elderly lady for whom we wrangled television antennae earlier this year, took her 1979 Chrysler Cordoba luxury coupe in to the dealer to have the broken windshield wiper motor replaced, but they were also about to saddle her with a truckload of "scheduled maintenance" afterward, so she called us about it a few days ago. A round of phone tag later, we got her to beg off the rest of the maintenance with the dealer, and she reconnected with her usual mechanic, and then Dad and I picked up the car from the dealer to return it to her. Of course, we had to beat off prospective buyers with very large sticks. The car will get due maintenance--just at a point when Ollie can afford it.
Dad (with a dubious level of seriousness) said he'd lobby for Ollie to leave the car to me in her Will.
Weird...I Must Have Some Weird.
Sep. 28th, 2008 06:42 pmWeirdness is like my oxygen sometimes.
Did a lot of shopping today, as the weather was nice and I hated the idea of sitting between two TVs, one showing football and the other showing golf and both of them with the volume a little too loud. Wound up getting four boxes of herbal tea and a couple things for my brother for housewarming/upcoming birthday.
Anyway, I was in a Tuesday Morning discount store and saw a coffee table book on celebs who collect cars. Race cars, luxury cars, rare cars...and one fellow who is into concept cars. He has this machine in his collection:
The Chrysler D'Elegance, built by Ghia in the early Fifties along with other Chrysler concepts and stylewise the father of the VW Karmann Ghia.
Didn't buy the book but perhaps I may go back for it someday. When I got back here I got to looking through pictures of other such concept cars from that and other eras, not just online, but in a book I bought when I was a cashier at a Borders bookstore. One weirdness idea of mine would be to artistically backdate the history of GM's Saturn marque, as if it existed in those decades instead of Oldsmobile or LaSalle or some other brand of the times. Take some features of the current Saturn cars and some features of the Motorama concept cars and some features that production cars had and breed some hybrids.
I'm already thinking up names for spurious cars, mainly based on the moons of the planet Saturn and the Titans of classical mythology, as well as temporal terminology (as Saturn, as the Greek character Cronus, was the master of time).
Moonshine has job security...but I can dream about having a weird car.
Did a lot of shopping today, as the weather was nice and I hated the idea of sitting between two TVs, one showing football and the other showing golf and both of them with the volume a little too loud. Wound up getting four boxes of herbal tea and a couple things for my brother for housewarming/upcoming birthday.
Anyway, I was in a Tuesday Morning discount store and saw a coffee table book on celebs who collect cars. Race cars, luxury cars, rare cars...and one fellow who is into concept cars. He has this machine in his collection:
The Chrysler D'Elegance, built by Ghia in the early Fifties along with other Chrysler concepts and stylewise the father of the VW Karmann Ghia.
Didn't buy the book but perhaps I may go back for it someday. When I got back here I got to looking through pictures of other such concept cars from that and other eras, not just online, but in a book I bought when I was a cashier at a Borders bookstore. One weirdness idea of mine would be to artistically backdate the history of GM's Saturn marque, as if it existed in those decades instead of Oldsmobile or LaSalle or some other brand of the times. Take some features of the current Saturn cars and some features of the Motorama concept cars and some features that production cars had and breed some hybrids.
I'm already thinking up names for spurious cars, mainly based on the moons of the planet Saturn and the Titans of classical mythology, as well as temporal terminology (as Saturn, as the Greek character Cronus, was the master of time).
Moonshine has job security...but I can dream about having a weird car.
