A celebration of the Appalachian Trail in Damascus, Virginia ended tragically when an elderly driver, suffering an as-yet unknown medical incident, plowed his '97 Cadillac DeVille into the crowd of hikers. Thankfully, no one was killed, but up to 60 people were injured.
When you think of iconic cities, most people get images of notable landmarks, buildings, and skylines. London has Big Ben, Paris has the Eiffel Tower, New York has the Empire State, LA has those cheap sheet metal letters that spell Hollywood. But there's distinctive mobile landmarks as well — the distinctive cars of cities.
This Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow-based pickup is strikingly well executed. Look how great that rear quarter window looks, and how nicely trimmed and finished the bed is. This pickup is so freaking classy it makes me want to crap brie.
Both of those are addressed in the article. Here's the recap: those are Muggle technologies the wand-wavers just took from us.
They had some interesting cars in there, too. That's a good reference!
Isn't that elevator just a human-powered winch? That's pretty well within what people were doing in the 1300s-1400s or so.
Hm. That's tricky. Would I have to clean up its poop?
Watch A Recently Discovered Video Of The 1946 Indy 500
My friend Galen has a real knack for finding interesting old movies and slides at tag sales and other similar piles of trash. He's even found footage of Hitler before, but I'm more excited about this find: a home movie of the 1946 Indy 500.
I certainly don't demand that everything I do involve cars, somehow, but I rarely find the addition of cars to something
You're right! It is a mighty fine machine.
