Jumat, 30 September 2011

About Classic Cars: Goodwood Revival 2011 One of the Best

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From Tony and Michele Hamer, your Guide to Classic Cars
One should never go to England for the weather...we've been here two weeks and it went from rainy and cold to sunny and hot. But for the best classic car racing, England is the place to be. This year's Goodwood Revival event was definitely one of the best yet.

Goodwood Revival 2011 One of the Best
The Goodwood Revival is firmly established as a 'must attend' event for classic car enthusiasts, with 138,000 visitors traveling from around the world. And this years event is being hailed as one of the best and as frequent attendees, we have to agree...Read more

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Kamis, 29 September 2011

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An Oregon ghost town's abandoned car museum

By Justin Hyde

An Oregon ghost town's abandoned car museum

An Oregon ghost town's abandoned car museumIt's common for people to park an old car in a barn and forget about it. But in central Oregon there's an entire ghost town with an abandoned car museum at its center. Inside that museum sits a Hupmobile and Plymouths that have been waiting decades for visitors who never come.

These photos were taken last week by a FerrariChat.com member who visited the museum in Shaniko, Ore., when it opened in the 1970s, and had last dropped in nine years ago. Where the original museum was "pristine," the barn holding the cars now appears to be neglected; there's no power, the walls have holes and the windows are gone, although the donations box is still open:

An Oregon ghost town's abandoned car museum

It's just really sad to see all these cars rotting like this. Virtually all the emblems and hood ornaments have now been pilfered, along with trim parts and other bits. A fence was put up inside years ago apparently to slow the theft of bits, but it's been pulled down in places and folks just keep slowly stripping the cars.

An Oregon ghost town's abandoned car museumShaniko is famed around Oregon as a ghost town, even though a few people — 26 at last count — still live there. Several attempts to revive the town have come up empty, although many of its original buildings have been preserved and renovated.

The car barn is one part of the village that's resisted improvements to date. Given its condition, there's not much resistance left.

Photos used by permission.

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Selasa, 27 September 2011

Watch a full-size Ford Explorer built out of 380,000 Legos

By Ray Wert

Watch a full-size Ford Explorer built out of 380,000 Legos

The Ford Explorer, the ex-SUV crossover that started the soccer mom trend, has now been reinvented in 382,858 Lego bricks for a new partnership between Legoland and Ford. Watch this amazing time-lapse video of the epic build, Lego-by-Lego.

There's a very unique Ford Explorer debuting at FoMoCo's Chicago Assembly Plant today. Although it looks similar to a real Ford Explorer, it's actually built entirely out of hundreds of thousands of Lego bricks. The special Explorer marks the beginning of a long-term alliance between Ford and the Legoland Florida theme park. After the vehicle makes its way to the theme park just outside Orlando, it will be featured in front of one of the park's attractions, the Ford Driving School for children.

While the two may look amazingly similar on the surface, there are quite a few differences between the Ford Explorer crossover and the imaginative Legoland Florida Explorer.

For example, while the Ford Explorer is made with 2,500 parts, the Legoland Florida Explorer is made with 382,858 Legos. Also, the Ford Explorer is built by 2,500 employees at Ford's Chicago Assembly Plant, while the Legoland Florida Explorer was made in Connecticut by 22 employees over about 2,500 hours.

Watch a full-size Ford Explorer built out of 380,000 LegosBoth, however, are very heavy. The Legoland Florida Explorer weighs in at 2,654 lbs., almost half the girth of a real Ford Explorer (4,503 lbs).

Still, as you can see — it looks pretty damn close to the real thing, don't it? But I'll only be really interested when this partnership turns into either a full-size Lego Raptor or a "Bullitt" Mustang playset complete with exploding Dodge Charger.

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