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Friday, June 3, 2011

The coolest looking mechanized real vehicle that wasn't ever in a movie but should be

the rolling mine exploder

For a really good write up on what it is, and links to more pictures in the comments section, look at http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2008/03/06/march-military-campaign-now-thats-what-i-call-ground-clearance/

Good blog I read frequently, they do more homework on things than I do... I'm just happy to find cool stuff and show it, and give you links where you can read more about the thing.

Just for the record, I don't remember where I found these pictures that I posted 2 days before Hemmings, but this is a fricking cool machine, and Hemmings should get credit for great research.

http://www.cockpitinstrumente.de/downloads/Bilder/DiverseBilder/privatebilder/Panzer/DSC01928.JPG

For a picture of the back of this, showing the 3rd wheel, and ruining the 2 track awesomeness of how it appears here.

A M3A1 1941 Army scout car. Made by the White Motor Company

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Marlene Dietrich was a tough one... she brought a tank to a gun fight

image via: http://jesusplayingolf.tumblr.com/

Remembering veterans (I'm a 10 year Navy submariner vet) on Veterans Day here in the USA

For photos of military stuff that I think was great: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/Military

Letters from GI's in Korea, 1952-1953 to Hot Rod Magazine. A different war, a different breed. No cell phones or internet, just shared magazines

the above is from Lt Dierks... the below is from a GI in response to it

Click on all of the above to get the full "easy to read size"

I hope all those guys made it home, and that you get an understanding of how the Korean War vets were hungry for Hot Rod magazines, and how they spent some free time thinking about the cars they had to leave behind when they were drafted into a war, that today some of us only know of as the setting of the tv show MASH.

I hope you immediately think about the military stuck in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan... and do something to make their time in the sand pit easier to bear.

Airstream, the USS Hornet, and NASA , Quite a combination, and not the first time I've posted about NASA's airstream, incredibly enough

Offloading of the Mobile Quarantine Facility from the prime recovery vessel, the U.S.S. Hornet, July 24, 1969.

Via http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/a11/ap11-S69-21881HR.jpg from the unusual and NSFW website http://melisaki.tumblr.com/page/91

For more on the NASA airstream: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/04/remember-apollo-astronauts-getting.html

Melisaki.tumbler.com has a cool variety of car and aircraft photos, here's a couple

1910 Fiat S76, the beast of turin, 28.3 liter engine

Cord 810 & Norwegian figure skater Sonja Henie 1936

What happened to the high level of restroom cleanliness as the high priority? Former First lady Eleanor Roosevelt once toured the US inspecting them, and that is quite a feat of publicity!