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Sunday, May 20, 2012

1943 Ford GPA, General Purpose Amphibian (jeep boat)

as always, the image you see is just a small version of the full one at your fingertips, just left click on anything for the big image

Monday, May 14, 2012

Aircraft in the movie "Memphis Belle", a hell of a good movie

this info is from Steve (Servicide.blogspot.com) who always amazes me with the stuff he knows or finds out about things I've posted.

The original B-17 had two different colors on the bathing suits - blue on the port side and red on the starboard side.
The image was taken from George Petty's April 1941 pinup in Esquire magazine.

The pilot, Robert Morgan had gotten Petty's phone number from the magazine and asked him for permission to reproduce the artwork. Petty was gracious and even thrilled to be a part of it. Corporal Tony Starcer, who was an artist in the Squadron, painted the images on the fuselage. Morgan had told Starcer, "I don't care what color you put on her bathing suit, as long as you put a bathing suit on her." When restored the first time, the pinups were repainted a bit too hefty (see the blue suit image).

The current restoration is returning them to their wartime figures (red image),

I saw the Memphis Belle on Mud Island in Memphis in 1987, just shortly after it went on display there.

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

To Valet, or Not to Valet... it's not a question. Don't. Here is one example, if you didn't get it when you watched Ferris Bueller's Day Off

The approximately $400,000 pileup reportedly happened when a valet drove a Maserati into -- and under -- a Jeep Grand Cherokee, which crashed into a Mini Cooper and a vintage Porsche 356.

The Epic Hotel in downtown Miami witnessed an epic crash involving expensive cars on Friday night. Onlookers revealed a Maserati Gran Turismo spiraled out of control and crashed into a number of cars.

I think before I hand over the keys to my car, I'm going to make sure the valets are bonded, licensed, and insured by some company that is fast with paying off damage claims.

police found the valet driving the Maserati ‘was coming down a parking garage ramp too fast, lost control, and drove his luxury sports car right under the SUV’