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fresh cool AC blown in your car at the drive-in back when AC option cost too much for most people to get a car with the factory installed AC

barn find 1971 Roadrunner. 383, 4 speed, B5 blue, air grabber hood, black bucket seats, factory tach, non console, non a/c, manual steering, power disc brakes

the Paul Bunyan load, September, 1952. A 1949 Peterbilt 390, 12 foot bunks, and adjustable Rossi chocks. the 40 foot logs were 7, 8 and 9 feet in diameter. 53,670 board feet. Driver, Wes Copeland, previously a WW2 bomber pilot

all the inventory, all 4 million dollars worth, now, only good for parts. March 19, 2018, a surveillance camera recorded hail at Mitch Smith Chevrolet in Cullman, Alabama.

First time I've ever seen a video of what problems a snowstorm causes for the 1st train to head down the line after the weather clears up

oh what happens when you aren't looking at where you're pointing your 60,000 pounds of truck.. or anything you're driving. Drive safe, look ahead, farther, at what's going on 4, 5 or 10 cars up ahead in your lane. It could save your life too

When the game is all, and the faster it gets dried, the faster we get back to THE GAME! So, NO screwing around, they brought in a chopper to dry the field! Genius!

Funniest thing I've read today

a simple thing like the crossing gates and bells not working... and everyone's day is ruined. Be safe out there! Look down the tracks, both ways, before crossing a railroad track

Oh no... no! Some idiot let Swift have a missile!

dash cams... a good idea

The Hollendyke Wrecking Service, Clarksburg. West Virginia. 1933. (when your horse power is flagging call Hollendyke!)

let me take a moment to compliment Tammi Jo Shults.. pilot who calmly landed that Southwest flight 1380 yesterday with one engine. Navy fighter pilot.

the homesick mechanic who stole a plane

this past weekends Airstreams

the caption that Chevy used: “We don’t just bring the thunder. We steal it, too.”

Poof, and just like that, it was gone. (Red Bull Global Rallycross)

Winnie Fritz was a farmhand at 6, a Army nurse unit commanding officer in Vietnam in 1970 at 22, a nurse to presidents and kings at Walter Reed at 23, a pilot, and the clinical operating officer of an international health system at 31.

Something I just learned about bomber nose art creator Milt Caniff (the comic strip artist who did Steve Canyon, Male Call, and Miss Lace just for the enlisted during WW2)

a semi-truck narrowly avoided disaster last Thursday when it slid off Montana 200 on the east side of Rogers Pass. The truck was going around an icy corner heading downhill when it jackknifed, and the truck went over the guardrail and down an embankment.

I'll be danged, I didn't know Reddit would show all the links to this site

Woman demonstrating how to cover car lights to comply with the blackout regulations during World War II, 1942.

the Little Dixie Shrine Club has a 1932 Ford fire truck they run for parades

"Truman's Taxi" the old yellow fire truck (1954 White), and Truman the Tiger, of University of Missouri

Flight 1380 made an emergency landing at Philly International at around 11:00 a.m. today after taking off from LaGuardia. One dead

Yes sir, that bridge does indeed check out at 11 feet from the roadtop. Hmmm, maybe drivers need glasses.

decades of serious and fatal accidents at or near the 3 way intersection of the 76 and Valley Center Road results in a rare roundabout

Swift... damn idiots

In Virginia, businesses shell out roughly $1,000 annually to be included on the signs. In Tennessee, that cost is higher at $1,600

Waaaiit, what the eff? Damn, cut back on the beans and hot sauce man! The WTF of the week

Quote of the day "Does Elon dream of electric robots?"

Fire her. What's wrong with people in Florida? What's in the water?

This photo just won the Breaking News Photography Pulitzer, and it was taken on the photographers last day at work for local news. Now he's working for a beer company

the vehicle made obsolete by a kitchen appliance. "What is the Divco van?" is the answer on Jeopardy

When does a land speed record setting BMW end up looking like this? Neglected, forgotten, and left out in the weather... ? When it ran on liquid petroleum gas, LPG, natural gas. Then no one cares, probably rightly so

Who the hell was Peter Epsteen, and how'd he get Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, and Sammy Davis Jr to sing commercials for him? A Chicago/Palm Springs Pontiac car dealership owner with friends in the Mob