Motor Vehicles
Stretch limo snowcat
Currently for sale on Craigslist Vancouver. They're asking $6000 for it.
Posted By: Alex - Sat Sep 15, 2018 -
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Category: Motor Vehicles, Cars
The Rolligon
Wikipedia entry.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Sep 14, 2018 -
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Category: Inventions, Motor Vehicles, 1950s
Propellor-Driven Snowmobiles
This notion goes way back.The Russians tried them at the start of the 20th century, with the Aerosani.
Here's one from the 1930s.
And finally, one from 2016.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jul 08, 2018 -
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Category: Motor Vehicles, Nature, Weather, Twentieth Century, Twenty-first Century
Follies of the Madmen #373
Somehow, anti-knock engine supplement conflated with performing saintly miracles.
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jul 07, 2018 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Motor Vehicles, Religion, 1930s
Follies of the Madmen #370
Continuing our intermittent series: I ALWAYS TAKE SHOPPING ADVICE FROM PUPPETS
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jun 20, 2018 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Motor Vehicles, Puppets and Automatons, 1940s
Mystery Illustration 72
What was this vehicle for?
Answer is here (page 25).
Or after the jump.
More in extended >>
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jun 18, 2018 -
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Category: Motor Vehicles, 1940s
The Ant Farm, a Cadillac, and a Wall of Flaming TVs
Wikipedia page for the collective.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jun 15, 2018 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Performance Art, Destruction, Motor Vehicles, Television, 1970s
Spiral Road Tower
Original page here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed May 16, 2018 -
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Category: Architecture, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Motor Vehicles, 1930s
Thump Pad - pothole solution
Seems like an interesting solution to potholes, but I'm curious how well these would work in a real-world setting. For instance, would people wander away with them, just because they could? And would this temporary solution end up as the permanent solution?More info: The solution to potholes? (wkyc.com)
https://www.yeupatchtechnologies.com
Posted By: Alex - Sat Apr 28, 2018 -
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Category: Inventions, Motor Vehicles
Saint Mary of the Highways
‘Saint Mary of the Highways’ I & II are names of two trailer chapels operated by the Catholic Diocese of Richmond. Designed by George F. Chaplain, one was built in 1938 and the second in 1948. They were dedicated by Bishop Ireton. Purchased by the donations of the people at the cost of $10,000 each, they contain church equipment, public address system and living accommodations for two priests. During the summer, programs of Scripture, music, prayer, question answering, sermons, movies and literature are presented daily. You are invited to visit the Chapel on the road, or at our home in Richmond.
Postcard source.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Apr 26, 2018 -
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Category: Motor Vehicles, Religion, 1930s, 1940s
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