My Uncle sent this to me
I came across this phrase yesterday ‘FENDER SKIRTS.’
A term I haven’t heard in a long time, and thinking about ‘fender skirts’ started me thinking about other words that quietly disappear from our language with hardly a notice, like ‘curb feelers’
And ’steering knobs.’ (AKA) suicide knob, Neckers Knobs.
Since I’d been [...]
About 1970 my father traded for a 1938 Nash that had been stored in a barn since the fifties, only had about 20,000 miles on it. We went out there to pick it up and brought a wrecker. We opened the barn and there she was, quite a sight. It looked like an old gangster [...]
Flint, MI.-CCG News Service
By: Jax
The CCG News Service has unearthed the new designs for these Emissions free, Green, Labor and Fuel Friendly 2010 sedans as proposed by GM (Government Motors). Head designer, Fredrick W. Tone, who currently resides in Flint, Michigan, Flint’s Tone was quoted as saying “this design harkens back to earlier design [...]
Look carefully at the B-17 and note how shot up it is - one engine dead, tail, horizontal stabilizer and nose shot up.. It was ready to fall out of the sky. (This is a painting done by an artist from the description of both pilots many years later.) Then realize that there is a [...]
I saw this Buick GSX Proto type at the Detroit Auto Show in 1969. To say I fell in Love would be an understatement. These pictures, (although they are priceless to me) don’t begin to do it justice, those orange stripes that went up the seats and the racing stripes to match, too cool. At [...]
