Beauty has more posted models
I found a single exquisite photo per post website, not much to read, and just one photo per topic, but I think you'll like it as much as I do
Dean Martin in his late 1960's movies about a secret agent, "Matt Helm" on a Lambretta Cento
A Lola
Jimmy Hendrix
Catherine Deneuve and Morgan plus 4
Dmitry Ivanov photography
1947 Bentley Mark VI Cabriolet with custom coachwork by Franay
Winged warrior on the high banks of a speedway, beautiful thing
A good review of tire company promotions and what to avoid
from http://www.tirevan.com/ which is looking to win you over win less expensive tires, serviced at you home or work, because a mobile tire installation doesn't have to pay rent on a brick store http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/05/tirevan-sell-mount-and-balance-set-of.html if you live near the Washington DC or Philiadelphia metro areas
About 40% of all tickets written in San Diego are in just 4 locations, and 2 are basically College student areas
5% in Pacific Beach, Garnet Avenue between Ingraham Street and Balboa Avenue
another of the top 5 most ticketed is also in Pacific Beach, coming down Mt Soledad rd to Balboa
So, are cops targetting young speeders? Seems like it. But keep in mind what I posted http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/01/speed-limit-enforcement.html about cops giving speeding tickets, they prefer to ticket in the 2nd or higher price bracket... not in the 5 to 15 mph over, but over 15 mph over the posted speed limit when fines really get expensive... because a million people driving the same way 5 miles over the limit as they do at the limit, versus a few people driving way over the limit who will get fined enormously for driving near or over the limit of their braking and avoidance ability is another way to see the issue, but keep reading to see that it really is all about the money.
So reading on the article, you find that the first one I wrote about, the 11% of all tickets in San Diego, the most of any place in San Diego, are at the bottom of the hills on either side of a speed limit drop zone of 600 feet (for nothing different in the road condition, no schools) because it's a senior citizen residential block where the speed drops from 35 to 25 (again... at the bottom of two hills when you've got gravity speeding you up), and to quote the reporter "Nearly all the tickets were issued in the senior zone when drivers exceeded 40 miles per hour, causing fines to increase by $125 or more." confirming what I said about the 15 and over ticketing method causing fines to increase by $125 or more.
Using today’s fine amounts, the drivers ticketed on the College Avenue stretch during the year reviewed were fined more than $600,000. If all of the drivers paid those fines — and some do not — the city’s take would be more than $109,000 with the rest going to the county or the state.
Here is where you can see its all about the money... putting in a stop light will cost about a half million, writing tickets will earn about 20% more than that, about $600,000
More than that, the reporter, Matt Clark doesn't hold back.. I like that! He puts the matter in clear perspective when he points out
In the College Avenue zone (the one I've been talking about), 39 accidents occurred and cops handed out 1,678 tickets between July 2005 and June 2010,
Other areas of the city had more accidents — and fewer speeding tickets.
Three people died in 104 accidents on University Avenue between Park Boulevard and Utah Street in North Park. Officers issued five speeding tickets.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/dec/18/11-city-speeding-tickets-written-one-spot/?page=1#article
All fired up? Or would you like to read a really good rant about speed traps and how people got fed up and fought back? http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/01/here-comes-rant-moneymaking-speedtraps.html
Whoa, have you seen the awesome stuff Swissstache.tumblr.com finds?
Swissstache found this on http://driven.urbandaddy.com/2011/12/13/long-live-the-king/ I've never seen Steve with this Vette before
The Apollo 15 astronauts, their Lunar Rover, and some of the Corvettes they'd been given. Via http://blog.caranddriver.com/spaceflight-de-mayo-50-years-of-astronauts-and-corvettes/
another to end the days surfing: Liam Garrity's photo at the 2011 Famoso season http://www.bangshift.com/gallery/Liam-Garritty-photos-from-Famoso-s-2011-Season-gallery.html
This may be the coolest photo post I've done all year
Great stuff from Volksrat.tumblr.com
Pace car from Bristol International Speedway, a Superbird, surfaces from obscurity
Hot Rod finally published some cool rat rods and hot rods, 2 months after I posted this photo, you can read about it in this months issue of Hot Rod Magazine
Here is the 1936 IH truck bodied, Mark Sax owned, but built by Chris Watkins of CNA Performance from Oct 8th http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/10/rat-rod-with-50s-coronet-tailfins-cool.html
Look at pages 30 through 33, Feb 2012 Hot Rod
Hot Rod Magazine finally covers some pinstriping (About time!) they have ignored it for about 40 years
Manuel Cisneros pinstriping http://www.cisnerospinstriping.com/ and my galleries of his work http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/08/great-kustom-that-belongs-to-one-of.html and
David Allen Garcia designs http://www.kustomrama.com/index.php?title=D.A._Designs
Steampunk Holmes would have this ride, and it's Called the Black Widow, from artist Mikky Solifague
http://theclevermonkey.blogspot.com/2011/07/black-widow-gets-side-car.html
Cool photos from Saint of Los Angeles, who found them everywhere (sources not cited)
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