Cool things found in the blog "Progress is fine, but it's gone on for too long"

 Beer run! Filling up belly tanks with beer for the guys that just stormed the beach at Normandy

 probably looks like any old tank at first, but then, did you see that there are 4 tracks? Not the usual two

 Peter Sellers

 yup, it's a real Bugatti, factory racer

 amphib plane, stored in a hanger because getting it flying would take 2 fortunes and a winning mega millions lotto ticket

the 1936 Henderson before the restoration http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/07/1936-henderson-at-rhinebeck-grand.html

 a new image of the Count de Sakhnoffsky designed been truck, and this is a info card that was handed out at the trucks display... front above, and the reverse side below . For the gallery: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/09/extraordinary-designer-of-automotive.html

 terrific album cover art

 the cat tracks added onto the tractor give it so much more traction

a wheel pattern only used on Canadian trains, it looked familiar to me, and I remembered the train at the Nethercutt museum http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/05/private-pullman-palace-railcar-century.html

For the write ups of these photos, and so much more, including tools, munitions factories, Canadian museums, great things that were made in US and Canada, and extremely researched written descriptions of inventors and inventions: http://progress-is-fine.blogspot.ca/

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Automobiles and art posters, the story of the week at the Motorcities.org website

read about these at http://www.motorcities.org/Story+of+the+Week.html?utm_source=MotorCities+Newsletter+Vol.+3+Issue+8&utm_campaign=You+Auto+Know+Newsletter&utm_medium=email

For more vintage posters, you can browse through the "Art" label tag.. they are in there somewhere

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1936 Delahaye 135 Sport with Ostrich leather and fitted luggage at the Desert Classic Concours D'Elegance at the Westin Mission Hills in Palm Springs, it is a multiple 100 point winner, and was a cover car for Robb Report magazine

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"Cars 2" movie from Pixar/Disney had a lot of small details of conversion to automotive looking architecture

 they call it Big Bentley in the movie

 They were right smart to label it Holden

 Leave Spring under the above bridge, and replacing the cables in the London Bridge below

 through out the movie you'll see statues of cars instead of people

 I totally dig the wire wheel in the Eiffel tower, could be based on Kelsey Hayes, but who knows

 the side of the Notre Dame looks like an exhaust header

 A valve cover topping the Arc De Triumphe

 a piston for an elevator

 A Boyce Motormeter in the above building

 the light shade looks like an type of engine

I didn't see all of these the first time or the second time I watched the movie... but I saw a lot of them, and found the rest when looking for them specifically for this post

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