Heavy Metal

Actually the Big E was launched in 1960 and stricken this year. Thats almost 57 years.
My son spent 3 years aboard, whil3 she was in drydock for her final major overhaul wnd he 1st subsequent deployment. He said a lost of strange things happened on that ship that cannot be explained.
 
I am putting this here so as not to hijack C Body Bob's Old Photos with Cars thread. :)

I posted this pic of a car show in the 1950's. I do not recognize any of these cars...BUT they almost all (along the right side) appear "chopped" AND "slammed".

I am comparing them to that light blue post coupe top miiddle thats not in the show, and two in the show: that purple car, left middle next to lady in orange sweater/blue skirt, and the dark blue one at bottom?

anyway, two questions: (1) These are NOT "contemporary" customized cars but were as built from factory right, and (2) can anybody identify these cars for me (others like me who dont know)?

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amazinblue82 said:
I am putting this here so as not to hijack C Body Bob's Old Photos with Cars thread. :)

I posted this pic of a car show in the 1950's. I do not recognize any of these cars...BUT they almost all (along the right side) appear "chopped" AND "slammed".

I am comparing them to that light blue post coupe top miiddle thats not in the show, and two in the show: that purple car, left middle next to lady in orange sweater/blue skirt, and the dark blue one at bottom?

anyway, two questions: (1) These are NOT "contemporary" customized cars but were as built from factory right, and (2) can anybody identify these cars for me (others like me who dont know)?
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These cars were customized back when they were new or almost new. "Slammed" is a modern term though.

The one that I can ID first is the two tone Hirohata Mercury.
http://www.rodauthority.com/news/iconic-steel-the-barris-built-1951-hirohata-merc/

The others look familiar and I think I know a couple of them. Honestly, as crazy as this sounds, the color pic is throwing me off. Most of these cars were photographed in B&W back then and those are the pics I'm used to seeing. Let me research a little more.

In the meantime... Here's a thread on custom cars.

Custom cars
 
amazinblue82 said:
I am putting this here so as not to hijack C Body Bob's Old Photos with Cars thread. :)

I posted this pic of a car show in the 1950's. I do not recognize any of these cars...BUT they almost all (along the right side) appear "chopped" AND "slammed".

I am comparing them to that light blue post coupe top miiddle thats not in the show, and two in the show: that purple car, left middle next to lady in orange sweater/blue skirt, and the dark blue one at bottom?

anyway, two questions: (1) These are NOT "contemporary" customized cars but were as built from factory right, and (2) can anybody identify these cars for me (others like me who dont know)?

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Light blue one is 52/53 Mercury

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Purple one is a 52 Ford

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Can't help with the bottom one, but it looks like the 52 - 54 Ford tail lights to me.

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Big_John said:
Look what I found! Here's more pics from the same show.

Thrifty Parking-lot Show - Custom Car Chronicle

The pic was colorized! That 'splains it.
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super sleuthing man.

I thought it was just an interesting, old photo .. perhaps in color but definitely vintage 50's, but with chopped/lowered cars on display "contemporaneously. Let alone a whole URL story on it, identifying all the cars. :)

all questions answered. :thumbsup:
 
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MoPar Maniac said:
Actually the Big E was launched in 1960 and stricken this year. Thats almost 57 years.
My son spent 3 years aboard, whil3 she was in drydock for her final major overhaul wnd he 1st subsequent deployment. He said a lost of strange things happened on that ship that cannot be explained.
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My dad was on the Enterprise during Vietnam, Grandpa was a Marine, Dad was Navy and I decided Air Force go figure.
 
Aston Martin Valkrie. V12, 1,000 horses. get this though: produces 4,000 lbs of downforce, and weighes about 2,000 lbs. So what?

at whatever speed that 2 tons of downforce is optimized, in theory this ~1 ton car could run upside down (mechanical systems allowing).

oh, its a passenger car. technically a wonder. practically, i guess if you have the $3M you can buy what you want. first year production is sold out.

source: The Aston Martin Valkyrie: AM-RB 001 hypercar takes its name from the gods

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at 4:57 and 5:34 and 6:18 .. what's the "whining" from before startup? obviously a "starter" .. but what is making that noise/why needed?

i'll guess .. need a certain engine RPM before combustion .. ala the "Buick"'s function (two, 401 cu. in nailhead V8s) hen used for the SR-71 PW's startup?

 
Ah, but the start carts were phased out after changing to Chevy big blocks and then a pnuematic system.
The whine is the cart spinning up the turbines to 3200 rpm and then starting the jet. 3200 was the minimum speed the turbines could run on their own.
I have a couple friends who were Habu maintainers.
The carts were deployed to locations that didnt have the pnuematic system.
 
Borrowed these from the Packard Proving ground thread (check it out Packard Proving Grounds) post #22 I made last year. Barnfinds post #190 here got me fired up again.

So, can't go without Gar Wood and this class of boat in this thread -- especially since this was the 1930's :)

courtesy detmatt
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some vids i scrounged up.



 
Chernobyl finally gets a cover. A short video and story showing the final installation of a protective cover for melted reactor.

The big silver thing in the opening scenes -- The "Shield" -- on the left is gonna move to the right up to that first smokestack.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/29/world/europe/chernobyl-disaster-cover.html?_r=0

Under it, will be the damaged reactor and the original "Sarcophagus" over it. This is a cross-section of the Sarcophagus built over the reactor (where that tilted orange thing is in the middle). The scale in meters is on the left.

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The Shield, made of concrete and steel is the largest moveable, landbased structure ever built. The whole world chipped in on this deal

Cost was 1.5 Billion Euro, its 800ft wide, 500ft long, 300ft high and weighs 36,000 tons. The sliding is being done with help of a “skidding system” that consists of 224 hydraulic jacks that push the arch in five inch increments. An estimated 40 hours of “skid time” will take place over a period of 5 days.

Anyway, the Sarcophagus to contain the radiation was built to last 15 years (1986-2001) but had to go another 15 years before this did this movable dome. It leaked the whole time.This structure is supposed to last 100 years.

An aside.

A guy that worked for me 20 years ag, a Russian engineer, lost family there. At the plant in the accident, afterward to cancers ..PLUS a few family members were in the Russian Army .. the "first responders"

Had those men NOT done their jobs, taking MEGA-UBER lifetime radiation doses (many later dying), to build the Sarcophagus, plus the coal miners who had to build a concrete slab UNDER the darn thing keep the radioactive goop outta the ground - knowing we'd have seen something extraordinarily BAD to deal with.
 
Where and when was this .. anybody with a guess before the answer below? I was surprised.

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Petersburg VA, 1865 after a Union Army Attack. Looks like WWII kinda damage. in 1865!!

I read once that part of why the Civil War was so groteseque on the casualty front was the combatants had essentially modern weaponry by standards still in use 80 years later in WWII. Particularly the heavy artillery.

But, they were fighting with 18th century ground tactics. Get in a line and march across open terrain, and then a shell lands and shreds 10-20 guys at once.

Long guns (Whitworths for snipers, Springfields for foot soldiers, etc.) that were accurate/deadly 200 yards to well over 1,000 yards .. guys carrying the "colors" getting picked off, another guy takes his place and promptly gets shot within seconds.

Heck a minie ball, conical nose and spinning from grooved barrels, was over 50 caliber -- hence all the amputations if they hit long bones, let alone the instant deaths from torso/head shots.

Ugh ..enough of that.
 
amazinblue82 said:
Where and when was this .. anybody with a guess before the answer below? I was surprised.

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Petersburg VA, 1865 after a Union Army Attack. Looks like WWII kinda damage. in 1865!!

I read once that part of why the Civil War was so groteseque on the casualty front was the combatants had essentially modern weaponry by standards still in use 80 years later in WWII. Particularly the heavy artillery.

But, they were fighting with 18th century ground tactics. Get in a line and march across open terrain, and then a shell lands and shreds 10-20 guys at once.

Long guns (Whitworths for snipers, Springfields for foot soldiers, etc.) that were accurate/deadly 200 yards to well over 1,000 yards .. guys carrying the "colors" getting picked off, another guy takes his place and promptly gets shot within seconds.

Heck a minie ball, conical nose and spinning from grooved barrels, was over 50 caliber -- hence all the amputations if they hit long bones, let alone the instant deaths from torso/head shots.

Ugh ..enough of that.
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Grew up around that era of firearms... dad could hit 4/5 a 1" frangible target hanging from a wire at 25 yards and a color water milk jug hanging at 200 yards with open sights. We only sighted for 50 and 100 as those were the competition ranges... I was ok, but I never had the eyesight to even see those targets at those ranges. BTW, those were rapid fire events, muzzle loaded, percussion 2 band Enfield... dad averaged a hit close to every 10-12 seconds. I was slower and less accurate... and pretty well burned out on the shooting range after spending my childhood on one. My knowledge is limited, but I put a lot rounds through some of the rifles of this era.
 
For its "weight class", this is heavy metal. Do not try this at home (why would ya?) :)

100 MPH Bumper Car.

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Obviously a strong cat. 450 lbs, and unstable load .. pretty good lifting



but, heaviest metal bench record is like 1,000 lbs ..ONE rep, but 1,000 lbs. look at all the exo-reinforcements around his joints.

 
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