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A car with no class that's popular. There's hope for everyone.

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First Dutch car that can fly..............the article is in Dutch but the You tube link is in Englisch........
Today on the radio I heard that the first 40 that will produced cost 500.000 Euro after that larger production 300.000





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Why she should call the Ghostbusters..............

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Steve McQueen's Ferrari 275 GTB/4 To Be Auctioned In Monterey

Actor purchased the car while filming Bullitt


The 1967 Ferrari 275 GTB/4 will cross the block during the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance (Julian Mackie, Classic & Sports Car).

We know from many, many years of watching classic car auctions, that there are certain qualities that ensure big money. For example, putting tiny silver horses and/or yellow badges on a red car will probably bring in a lot of cash. This is doubly true if said car hails from the 1950s or 1960s, and it's triply true if some dude drove it around in circles or if a celebrity owned it. That, friends, is how you make the serious dosh at auction.

Considering that, we should expect big, big things when this 1967 Ferrari 275 GTB/4 crosses the block at the big RM Auctions event during the festivities surrounding the 2014 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance.

Terrence Steven McQueen, better known as Steve McQueen and even better known as the coolest actor of the 1960s and 1970s, originally purchased this car while filming Bullitt in San Francisco, which should provide a big boost to its sale price.

As previously reported, this car has undergone a full restoration and has received its certification from the team at Ferrari Classiche. Beyond that, though, we're kind of in the dark about this beauty. We don't even have a rough guess of how much it'll go for.

That's where you come in. Considering that the price of classic Ferraris is increasing with all the regularity of Old Faithful, how much do you think McQueen's 275 will call for when it hits the stage in August? Head into Comments and let us know.

Going through a divorce so I just sold this car a couple of months ago, the car nicknamed by my wife "The Mistress"!

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Here is another pic, anyone see something they like?

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Collectibles...



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Va. weekend delays due to Rolling Thunder Ride

FAIRFAX, Va. (WUSA9) -- Drivers can expect delays of up to 30 minutes on Sunday, May 25 starting at 7 a.m. due to thousands of motorcyclists traveling in the Rolling Thunder motorcycle ride.

Motorcyclists will be traveling on I-95, I-66 and Route 50 to the Pentagon and will be escorted by state and local police.

According to VDOT, around 2,000 motorcycles will go on the I-95 HOV lanes just north of Dale City in Prince William County, and another 2,000 will enter I-66 from Manassas and ride east to the Pentagon.

About 4,000 motorcycles will be going to the Pentagon from Route 50 in Fairfax City via Nutley Street, I-66 and Route 27/ Washington Boulevard.

VDOT said at noon riders will leave from the Pentagon and ride into D.C. The delays are expected to be until 4 p.m. Sunday.

May 2014 in Oslo, Norway

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Could you run your car on coffee?

Researchers used 20 different types of coffee to assess the quality of biofuel produced from each one

(Phys.org) —New research from our Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies shows that waste coffee grinds could be used to make biodiesel.

Oil can be extracted from coffee grounds by soaking them in an organic solvent, before being chemically transformed into biodiesel via a process called "transesterification". The study, recently published in the ACS Journal Energy & Fuels, looked at how the fuel properties varied depending on the type of coffee used.

As part of the study, the researchers made biofuel from ground coffee produced in 20 different geographic regions, including caffeinated and decaffeinated forms, as well as Robusta and Arabica varieties.

Dr Chris Chuck, Whorrod Research Fellow from our Department of Chemical Engineering, explained: "Around 8 million tonnes of coffee are produced globally each year and ground waste coffee contains up to 20 per cent oil per unit weight.

"This oil also has similar properties to current feedstocks used to make biofuels. But, while those are cultivated specifically to produce fuel, spent coffee grounds are waste. Using these, there's a real potential to produce a truly sustainable second-generation biofuel."

The research found that there was a reasonably standard composition and little variation in the relevant physical properties of the fuels, irrespective of the source. This means that all waste coffee grounds are a viable feedstock for producing biodiesel.

Dr Chuck explained: "The yields and properties of biodiesel can differ depending on the growth conditions of current biodiesel feedstocks, sometimes causing them to fall out of specification. The uniformity across the board for the coffee biodiesel fuel is good news for biofuel producers and users."

The researchers suggest that while coffee biodiesel would be a relatively minor part of the energy mix, it could be produced on a small scale by coffee shop chains to fuel vehicles used for deliveries. These same delivery vehicles could be used to collect spent coffee grinds and take them to a central biodiesel production facility to be processed. Companies such as London-based bio-bean already produce biodiesel and biomass pellets from waste coffee grounds.

Rhodri Jenkins, a PhD student in Sustainable Chemical Technologies and first author of the study, said: "We estimate that a small coffee shop would produce around 10kg of coffee waste per day, which could be used to produce around 2 litres of biofuel.

"There is also a large amount of waste produced by the coffee bean roasting industry, with defective beans being thrown away. If scaled up, we think coffee biodiesel has great potential as a sustainable fuel source."

The researchers are also looking at using other types of food waste as a feedstock to make biofuels and expect to publish their findings later in this year.

Read more at: [phys.org]

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I am a Frenchie ,as Mick affectionately called them in the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1977 .

One day late, but had to post this pic of my favorite bridge...



ORIGINAL BAY BRIDGE SPAN OPENED ON THIS DAY IN 1952 -- This beautiful A. Aubrey Bodine photograph shows the William Preston Lane Jr. Memorial (Bay) Bridge (US 50/301) during construction in March 1952. The original span opened on July 31, 1952. The parallel structure opened in June 1973.

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Detroit Love, Swedish Style

Linus Sundahl-Djerf for The New York Times

VASTERAS, SWEDEN — It was the evening of July 3, and a phalanx of American steel was arriving in this town an hour or so northwest of Stockholm.

Pontiacs, Fords, Plymouths, Cadillacs, Chevrolets — pretty much every brand of car ever manufactured on American soil — bumper to bumper into the fading daylight. Most were pristine, with immaculate chrome and gleaming paint, but some were custom hot rods in candy colors, and a few were wrecks that looked as if they had just been pulled from the ocean floor.

All were headed to the Power Big Meet 2014, which the organizers say is the world’s largest classic-car gathering. This was the 30th anniversary of the meet in its current incarnation — first held in 1978 and moved here in 1984 — and as many as 15,000 vehicles were expected to fill the festival grounds. Disciples of Detroit engineering had driven from all over Europe to gawk at one another’s cars.

It is hard to overstate how much the Swedes love old American cars. Swedish enthusiasts will happily boast that there is more classic Detroit iron in Sweden than in the United States. The Swedish fascination for Detroit slipped over into full-blown obsession a long time ago.

Thousands of vintage cars are imported into the country each year, participants here say, in part to satisfy the demand of the Swedish raggare subculture, which is populated by gearheads who have combined the fashion sensibilities of John Travolta in “Grease” with the drinking habits of a Lynyrd Skynyrd concertgoer. A scan of the crowd confirms that the raggare is as ingrained in the Swedish soul as Ikea and Abba.

“Kjell, how the hell are you going to fit that thing in there?” Oskar Antonson shouted to Kjell (Shell) Svenningsson, a friend who was trying with various degrees of violence to fit a Volvo generator under the hood of his 1957 Pontiac Bonneville. The car had ground to a halt in the muddy roads of a campground.

Power Big Meet has two official campgrounds. One has pristine lawns, showers, toilets and most important, no tendency to transform into an ocean of mud at the slightest drizzle; the other, the much more popular Swine Camp, is no doubt named for the grooming standards of the people who choose to stay there.

“You need a longer bolt, Kjell,” Mr. Antonson said. “And washers.”

Ignoring the advice, Mr. Svenningsson grabbed a hacksaw and amputated an egg-size chunk of steel from the generator. He shoved the modified piece into place and cranked the starter. The generator rattled, but obeyed. Kjell slammed the hood. “The car lives in Europe now, so she better get used to European parts,” he said.

The campgrounds neatly illustrate the two cultures of the Swedish Am-car scene. The nice camp has shiny, beautifully restored cars. Swine Camp, on the other hand, is the domain of a very Swedish subspecies of the American automobile: the pilsner car.

That is a car that looks as if it has suffered decades of cruel abuse. It is rusted out, covered with stickers and grime, its roof, trunk and hood beaten and dented almost beyond recognition. And if it is an authentic pilsner, the back end scrapes the ground because the frame has been broken over the rear axle.

However, it is in the guts of a pilsner car where things get really strange. Under the hood, a true pilsner will have a new or renovated engine, preferably something powerful like a 351-cubic-inch Ford V8. The axles have fresh brakes, the rust is rarely more than skin-deep, and the broken frame may even be welded solid in its mangled state.

The pilsner is a muscle car disguised as a beater.

“It’s about being able to not give a damn,” said Henrik Hjalmarsson, sitting on the hood of his Chevy. Mr. Hjalmarsson owns a particularly defeated-looking pilsner, a 1968 Impala with a 1967 front end and a suitably broken frame. The car was loaded with stickers, many of them Confederate flags. The raggare culture has a deep fascination with the American South.

“I can spill as much beer and put out as many cigarettes on the seats as I want,” he said. “But if you look underneath, the car is like new.”


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[www.nytimes.com]

Yeah, Bloomer. I see those cars from time to time and I can't help myself admiring these enormous American cars in pristine condition. We call them "jänkare" (yanks, yankees).
I think part of this phenonomena has to do with the fact that the U.S. didn't export many cars to Europe after the war which created an unmet need for these cars later on. Especially the late 50s models are sought after.



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Here is, by the way, what happens when an African elephant falls in love with a German car: