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Wednesday, 5 January 2011

Tuesday, 4 January 2011

Monday, 3 January 2011

funding ran out for this ground effects cruise missle carrying seaplane

this aircraft used the ground effect – extra lift of large wings when close to the waters surface, a maximum of three meters above the sea but at the same time could provide take off, stable “flight” and safe “landing” in conditions of up to 5-meter waves. These were originally developed by the Soviet Union as high-speed military transports, and were based mostly on the shores of the Caspian Sea

Thursday, 30 December 2010

In the woods of Maine are the neglected remains of two locomotives

The Eagle Lake and West Branch (ELWB) Railroad Locomotive #1, was built in June 1897 at Schenectady Locomotive Works (4-6-0 stamped #4552), it was originally a steam locomotive but later converted to burn crude oil to eliminate the forest fire threat caused by cinders. Number 1 was purchased by Great Northern in 1926 and used to haul pulpwood in the Allagash area from 1927-1933.ELWB Locomotive

Tuesday, 21 December 2010

Hear that screaming? Hear the cry of outrage? Yup, they just looked at this GT500 Shelby Mustang Cobra on a junkyard heap of junk cars. The point is

that this should get us fired up, like when Car Craft once had a photo of a Camaro that was being eaten by the jungle slowly... and the submission was accompanied by the phrase "we lost one, but let it be remembered by saving others" (Adam Rosenbaum, Portland Maine) from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=561it reminded me ofthat I posted a couple years ago http://

Sunday, 19 December 2010

Saturday, 18 December 2010

Sitting and Rusting thread on the HAMB

Sitting for 35 years. the size of the tree trunk though this body indicates many decades of not being disturbed The above is a DeSoto converted into a truck because the owner had a body shop, but not cash for a truck look through dozens of pages http://66.154.44.164/forum/showthread.php?t=330573&page=20

Sunday, 12 December 2010

Photos of the unusual from days gone by thread on the HAMB

Sad. Looks like 2 or 3 Buick bodies grafted together with an RV on top.I just found this post on the Hemmings Blog, and it identifies this vehicle as having been called the ShamRockAway http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2011/01/31/hemmings-find-of-the-day-the-shamrockaway if you guessed the above is a stretched Locomobile Model 48 with a 525 CI six, you're right Never seen Jeeps on a