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From Fred
Summer is here along with record high gas and food prices. In fact I think the price of just about everything is going up. Keep recycling those old cars. And keep attending the cruises and big summer shows. July is the month most people take off and go somewhere. This year it will cost more but life only lasts so long and we might as well enjoy our gasoline burning dinosaurs as long as we can. I want people to smell my carbon footprint.
~ Fred
This month's photos are from the All Ford at Carlisle. Here is a 62 Ford, red with red wheels.
I bought more parts this year than in several previous years combined. Not sure why there were so many parts that I needed this year. Here is a 54 glass top with lots of parts.
News You Can't Use ~ 100% True
Be glad you don’t live in Tehran, Iran. Every so often the police decide to enforce the dress code. They stop cars and pedestrians and check to make sure the woman are wearing clothes according to the Islamic dress code and the men are not wearing clothes that are “too Western”.
Honda is just starting to build its new hydrogen-electric car called the FCX Clarity. It will get 74 miles per gallon of hydrogen.
A man in Lynchburg claimed to be a doctor and did “exams” in his car. He sold one woman a “cure” for her breast cancer, which of course did not work. His exam of her consisted of squeezing her breasts. “Doc” has pleaded guilty to a number of charges.
The smallest car sold in the US is the Fortwo by Smart. It gets 36 MPG but must use expensive premium gasoline.
It was his time. A man drove into Virginia from North Carolina and stopped at the Welcome Center/rest stop. As he left his truck he saw it rolling so he went to grab the steering wheel, got knocked down and ran over. He died a couple of hours later. Be sure to put your vehicle in park or gear and use the brake when you park it.
A teenager wearing headphones was walking down the railroad track in Petersburg. Apparently he was walking with his back to the train. The conductor blew the whistle and used the emergency brakes but couldn’t stop in time. The boy was killed – hope those tunes were good.
She's ready to celebrate the 4th
A 14-year-old girl went to get her schoolbooks from her mother’s car and decided to drive it around the apartment complex. She hit and killed a 5-year-old boy.
Two cops in Kansas City stopped a pregnant woman driving a car with fake temporary tags. She repeatedly asked for medical help and was ignored. She was arrested and then miscarried. The cops were fired.
Campus cops are regualr cops with arrest powers. VCU police decided to run a Click It or Ticket campaign and issued over 80 tickets. Two were for DUI, two guns were taken and a total of 12 vehicles were towed for some infraction.
One man crashed his car into another man’s car and kept going. The guy who got hit pursued the hit and run driver. He tried to get him to pull over and the hit and run guy didn’t until the other guy pulled his 45 and fired a couple of rounds. Police have charged both with several crimes.
What did you expect to happen? Two tankers full of gas were stolen from a Prince George fuel distribution yard. They held about $20,000 worth of gas each. Later they were found abandoned. If gas keeps going up then we can expect more thefts.
Golf carts with roofs can be driven just like cars. They will do 25 mph and use batteries. The carts have to be insured and registered with the DMV and locality but you don’t have to get them inspected.
There was an auction for this twin turbocharged Mustang - just what you need to when you only have a couple of minutes to get to the ABC store before it closes.
Monthly Rant ~ Climate Change
Senator John “our liberal senator from Virginia” Warner’s climate change bill got killed in the US Senate recently. But it will come back. Senate environment committee chair Senator Barbara Boxer says she is going to work to improve the bill so it will get out of the Senate next year and be ready for the new president. Both Senators McCain and Obama say they want to do “something” about climate change but neither showed up to vote on Warner’s bill. Both of them want a climate change bill – that is real bad news for we American citizens and our economy. We can’t take a $6 trillion hit with regulation called “cap and trade”. Remember when that was tried to end pollution and companies crushed non-running old cars for pollution credits?
I cannot believe that so many people have fallen for this carbon footprint, global warming, and climate change crap. Yes, I believe in climate change – the climate will be different six months from now than it is today.
Newsweek magazine recently stated that the debate on climate change/global warming is over and everyone knows it is real. How dare they make such a statement! In 1975 Newsweek ran an article stating that the next Ice Age is coming and will be here in just a couple of years. In fact Newsweek (and others) ran several articles on the coming Ice Age in the late 70’s. I guess they were wrong about that. Think they could be wrong on global warming?
The meteorologists that are behind this global warming are the same ones who were behind the new Ice Age in the 70’s. Remember hurricane Katrina? That year we had a record number of hurricanes and it was not predicted by the meteorologists. But the next year they did predict a record number of hurricanes and we had fewer than usual. The next year another prediction of record hurricanes and we had fewer than usual. Could they be wrong?
Today we have weather forecasters on TV that act like they are wired up with caffeine and carry on and on about just a thunderstorm. They go crazy if there is a prediction of even a dusting of snow or a tornado watch. Speaking of tornados why does it take these experts a week to determine if a tornado hit?
We are so in tune with weather that the TV news team will forgo the scheduled programs to show up Doppler images of storms miles away from us. I think it’s part of the plan to sell us global warming. The fear of bad weather is sold to us. And we must do something about all those “greenhouse gases”.
What happened to “acid rain”?
What happened to the coming Ice Age in the 70’s?
Why can’t the weather people get the forecast right all of the time?
Doesn’t everyone know we can’t control the weather?
But that is precisely what they want us to think. That all we have to do is make some changes in the amount of carbon dioxide in the air and global warming will stop and we will actually change the weather.
We can’t change the weather. Nothing we can do about it. But somehow we can do something about climate change by reducing carbon dioxide. You know carbon dioxide – you are currently exhaling it.
Is all of this just another way for the government to control us? Vaclav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic has written a book “Blue Planet in Green Shackles”. He believes there is “climate alarmism” and that the real reason for it is to stop human freedom and global prosperity. This man spent most of his life under the rule of communists. He says they even tried to change the weather – all in the name of preventing freedom. Maybe that is what this climate change thing is really about – controlling us.
Sharp 72 Gran Sport Torino
Look what I spotted at an all Ford show - a hippie VW bus for sale
Hybrids May Not Save Money
Edmunds - the company that does all that research on vehicles - has discovered that with the extra cost of a hybrid that it will take years for a buyer to break even compared to a gasoline only vehicle. In fact in one case it could take 22 years of driving the hybrid to break even with the gas model of the same vehicle. Gas would have to cost $5.60 a gallon to break even considering the extra cost of purchasing a hybrid. Get this "Edmunds.com found that during the first five years of ownership, a hybrid can cost as much as $5,283 more than its non-hybrid counterpart." The bottom line is that people are buying hybrids because they think they will save on gasoline but they could save more by buying the gasoline version of the vehicle.
Bumper Sticker of the Month
Do you like redheads?
Kool Site of the Month Click on this link: Good Art for Bad Eggs Click on the links at the top to see some interesting artwork and click on cars to see how he built a 50 Chevy - opens to a new window - close to return to this page.
Video of the Month - Hollow Machine Hot Rod - see if you can ID the engine
Nice 54 Ford - I think the asking price was 9K
The A in front was 6K and the one on the trailer was 5
Everyone Gets to Drill in the Gulf Except Us
Due to environmental concerns Americans cannot drill in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida. Now Cuba is allowing China and others to drill within 50 miles of Key West, Florida. Not only China but also Canada, India, Norway and Spain could have companies bringing up American oil by slant drilling. I guess they could then sell us our own oil. The environmentalists might take a hit on this as China doesn't exactly have a great environmental record. We could blame the environmentalists for a big oil spill that would not have happened if American companies had done the drilling. It's time to wake up and start drilling our own oil before we have to buy it from foreign countries. See more at this link: Article.
Seldom seen 40 convertible
A new way to hold a hood open - more decorative than just using a broom stick.
