Can we please stop hotlinking pics?

Damn, the gif isnt gif-ing.

In reply to 914Driver :

I think the passenger in that RV-6 was killed.

BenB (Forum Supporter) said:

In reply to 914Driver :

I think the passenger in that RV-6 was killed.

Yes apparently.  

nocones said:

BenB (Forum Supporter) said:

In reply to 914Driver :

I think the passenger in that RV-6 was killed.

Yes apparently.  

If you watch some of the old videos from WWII you can see lots of examples of fighter planes with tail wheels taxiing in a zig-zag pattern or with the crew chief sitting on the wing as a spotter for the pilot.  The pilot couldn't see anything in front of him in most of these planes when on the ground.

I'd buy this person a beer.

Local to me and happening now.  Photo credit to First State Update.

This triangle shaped tire should really help the tractor

In reply to RevRico :

Is it a Mazda? That's really taking the rotary branding a bit far. Or is it for rolling across furrows?

Not a hot link, but this is Annie's pic in our backyard a few days ago.

I don't know. Maybe somebody stole his ramps?

Love the Plymouth wagon.

BenB (Forum Supporter) said:

In reply to 914Driver :

I think the passenger in that RV-6 was killed.

Photo's been removed.

I remember a Guinness Book Of World Records I had as a kid with this thing in it:

LeTourneau Land Train

In reply to 914Driver :

I wish I had a picture, but I don't. My grandfather was a coal bomber during the Berlin Airlift. The pilots that could manage it were not given airport landing duty and instead dropped coal out of bomb bays on specially prepared streets on an obviously very strict schedule. He told my dad stories about seeing people inside their apartments just off of his wingtips.

Pic unrelated, Thunder Tank at Walmart

In reply to Duke :

That's at the brutalist end of the spectrum, but I love old industrial vehicle design (if design's even the right word in some cases)... Yesterday's experience with an Isuzu NPR had me wondering whether it was a matter of design, construction, dampers, being one weight rating lighter, or just being a COE instead of a conventional that made it so much worse riding than the Internationals I used to drive delivering parts. It made me worried that my completely insane and terrible hope of owning an old Ford medium-duty cabover is even worse than I'd thought.

Pic is, I think, a heavy truck of similar era to the mediums that call to me. I love the corrugated headlight surround on this one, though.

EDIT: Crap, I can't believe I didn't see that it IS one of the C-series cabs stacked on top of a taller grille-and-headlights arrangement. The original headlight areas aren't punched out, and the lip for the wheel well is there, just not cut away!

In reply to slefain :

Almost looks like the driver is looking down...texting?

68TR250 said:

In reply to slefain :

Almost looks like the driver is looking down...texting?

I think the big, red light-and-buzzer warning just came on in the cluster.

Christopher Herwig has a whole book (er, two apparently) of Soviet bus stops. They're amazing. I wonder how they came to be such a riot of wild designs. I wonder whether that's covered in the book...

Gary said:

Not a hot link, but this is Annie's pic in our backyard a few days ago.

OMG GETITOFF GETITOFF GETITOFF OMG PLS!!!!

ultraclyde (Forum Supporter) said:

68TR250 said:

In reply to slefain :

Almost looks like the driver is looking down...texting?

I think the big, red light-and-buzzer warning just came on in the cluster.

Based on how bright his face is, I bet he's using his brow as a sunshade.

We're getting free water in cans at work now which is cool, but also sketchy when driving.. and doesn't seem to taste the same