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Monday June 20, 2011 Well here we are in June and of course our thoughts turn to the 24 Hours of Lemans. What has this got to do with accounting, absolutely nothing, other I suppose than the idea that racing sells street cars. Here is a narrated video of a C6.R Corvette doing one lap of the…
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Tuesday Oct 19 2010 In the 1962 I movie Hatari, John Wayn perched on a seat on the bumper of a Land Rover, he was roping wild game in Africa. Now fast forward 20 years Yes this Critter Gitter really exists and yes it is built in where else, Texas. Now let me be clear that I…
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Tuesday Sept 21 2010 Well answering my own question, here is an example of a great graphic, good design. It happens to be a comparison of various versions of the new Mustang. But I have never seen a graphic that simultaneously compared weight, power, speed, price all at the same time. Someone was thinking. This…
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Thursday July 15, 2010 Well I saved my pennies and I saved my dimes(Giddy up giddy up 409)'fore I knew there would be a time(Giddy up giddy up 409)When I would buy a brand new 409(409, 409) Beach Boys singing about the big block Chevy 409, the forerunner of the 427 mentioned in this article…
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Monday Feb 15 2010 The 1920s like the 1990s was an era of economic expansion, and appeal to luxury interests. Then as now that took the form of expensive automobiles. Back then before the National DOT one could buy a chassis and engine from Duesenberg and have a custom coach builder construct a one of…
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Wednesday Feb 10 2010 It has been said that people can live thru all sorts of changes without ever realizing it. We are there, now. Consider instrumentation, well okay you probably don't think a lot about instrumentation but you should. Within my lifetime we have at one point, and a long point at that, known…
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The first step to good writing, in my opinion, is good reading. And with that in mind I highly recommend columns by David E. Davis, even if you are not a gearhead. Davis writing career really got going at Car and Driver in the 1960s, he left for an ad agency, came back and quit…
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My friend Terry Box at Dallas News tests the Mitsubishi i-MiEV, which I am sure stands for something. Lithium ion batteries are the wave of the future, at least the only wave we can spot from the beach at this point. As Terry points out the charge cycle is still too short at 80-100 miles…
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Like Elizabeth Taylor, Kenny Rogers, and Diana Ross, chrysler is gearing up for a makeover. Here is my reaction to what is surely the last hurrah for Walter Chrysler's brand, or what is left of it. Europeans tend to buy and feel nationalistic. Hence tariffs keep cars not made locally at higher expense in…
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Art can take many forms. The 1950s was the era of American manufacturing dominance. We won the war, gasoline was cheap, and America went for a ride. The cars with rocket styled tail fins mirrored the space race, and lots of chrome and heavy cast iron V 8s to drive to the corner grocery, reflected…
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