JBA has moved, and is having a grand opening / 25th Anniversary and Power Cruise in 3 days, on Sunday Aug 1st

Sunday August 1st, 10 am to 3 pm. Come to our 25th Anniversary Power Festival and Cruise. See race cars, domestic performance cars, classics and hot rods.
- Tour Our Expanded 15,000 sq.ft. Facility
- Dyno Demonstrations
- Vendor Gallery & Tech Seminars
- Cruise & Power Festival
Join the fun and celebrate with us at our new location
5675 Kearny Villa Road, San Diego, CA 92123
Music will be provided by Don Swanson and the Retro Rockets. For more information, contact us at (858) 495-3395 (additional parking located at Kearny Villa Ct. and at True Line across the street.)

He was the oldest living owner of a car from new, and drove his Rolls Royce for 77 years

Mr. Allen Swift ( Springfield , MA.) received this 1928 Rolls-Royce Picadilly P1 Roadster from his father, brand new - as a graduation gift in 1928.

He drove it up until his death last year .....at the age of 102 (in the year 2005)

He donated it to a Springfield museum after his death.

It has 170,000 miles on it.

Swift, who died in October 2005 at the age of 102, was a legend among Rolls-Royce collectors for owning his green Phantom I, S273 FP Rolls longer than anyone in the world had ever owned an individual Rolls-Royce. In recognition of that fact, Rolls-Royce Motors presented him with a crystal Spirit of Ecstasy award at the Rolls-Royce Annual Meeting in 1994.

Swift and the Springfield Museums were brought together through a network of antique automobile collectors. In 2002, when he was 99 years old, he approached the Museums to discuss finding a new home for his Rolls-Royce. Confident in the Springfield Museums' ability to care for the automobile and to tell the story of Rolls-Royce manufacturing in Springfield, Swift indicated that he would donate his car if a building could be found to house it.

In the summer of 2005, the Springfield Museums became aware that the Verizon building, adjacent to the Museums, was available for purchase. Joseph Carvalho, president of the Springfield Museums, and Guy McLain, director of the Connecticut Valley Historical Museum, shared that information with Swift and described how the building could be converted into a museum. In September, Swift's attorney informed the Museums that Swift would donate the money to purchase the building.

The Springfield Museums will take possession of the building in June and will launch a fund-raising campaign to renovate it. When complete, the new Museum of Springfield History will display wide range of remarkable artifacts that tell the rich and multidimensional history of this city.

http://www.springfieldmuseums.org/news/view/51-new_springfield_history_museum_made_possible_by_connecticut_entrepreneur

My thanks and appreciation to James R for sending me this email!

Jim http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/06/tour-with-jim-86-yrs-old-who-still-has.html was 86 when I met him and he still had his 23 Ford from high school, but he'll have to live another 20 years or so to equal this story

restored tourist attraction steam locomotive was heavily damaged by derailing and falling on it's side because thieves removed the railroad ties

The locomotive – which dedicated volunteers spent many years restoring to working order – was substantially damaged.

The railroad ties are wood planks about 8 inches tall by 12 inches wide and “tie” the rails to the trackbed. Without sleepers, the rails would spread and topple under the weight of a train – which is what happened (interesting to me for the breadth of information about the variety of railroad ties: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_tie and for an intriguing photo and information about railroad ties being baked in creosote http://www.shorpy.com/node/7900?size=_original )

The stolen ties were made from hard Australian yarra wood, and are highly prized for making furniture – and sometimes for firewood – and in recent years, railway lines all over South Africa have been targeted by sleeper thieves. Some lines have lost so many sleepers that they have been closed since the cost of replacement has been deemed uneconomic.

Yesterday’s derailment happened on a line that sees many tourist trains during the year. The thieves don’t really care about the consequences, either for innocent passengers or for tourism as a whole. The cost of repairing the locomotive will be a heavy burden for the club which receives no funding other than what it earns from running tourist trains. The cost of repairing the damaged track will run into many thousands of rand – and Transnet is not keen to spend money looking after lines that are not part of its core network.

http://blogs.timeslive.co.za/wanderer/2010/06/21/thieves-derail-train-and-give-sa-tourism-a-kick-in-the-head/
via http://tukkers.blogspot.com/ which is NSFW (not safe for work)

A movie was made in 1953 about the London to Brighton historic race, Genevieve

from http://tukker.blogspot.com/ which is NSFW (not safe for work) for dissapointingly little info on the movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045808

Did you know that the last 50 Yenko Duece's made were built by Hurst under direction of Don Yenko?

photo via: http://www.conceptcarz.com/view/photo/445104,8953/1970-Chevrolet-Nova_photo.aspx

50 were made by Hurst,
.... 10 were made in Hugger Orange: but only one was delivered with Hurst 5 spokes, only one was made with white hockey stripes
.... 10 were made in Sunflower Yellow
.... 10 were made in Citrus Green
These colors were called Springtime Colors
...the remaining 20 were a mix of Cranberry Red and Fathom Blue

Linda Vaughn was in Hurst's parking lot after they were made, she was "practicing" on them, and doing burnouts... Muscle Car Review August 2010 issue, pages 74 to 78

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Modified Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X

Engine output on all 2005 models grows by 5 hp to 276 hp, and an active center differential is standard. An Infinity 315-watt audio system with a trunk-mounted subwoofer is optional. A new MR Edition, billed as Mitsubishi's highest-performing street-legal model, features Bilstein shock absorbers, a six-speed close-ratio manual gearbox, an aluminum roof and lightweight forged-aluminum BBS wheels.

Modified Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X

Modified Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X

Modified Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X

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3D peugeot 504

3D peugeot 504 were almost identical with cabrios. Launched at the same time as the cabrio, the coupe was just a tad more successful due to easy roof maintenance which, unlike the cabrio's folding soft-top, could have only been harmed by falling rocks. Equally beautiful, the two cars registered entirely different sale figures with the cabrio having sold in some 8000 units and coupe reaching close to 27,000 owners.

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On September 24th - 25th 2004, the “PEUGEOT 504 Community” were having a nice trip together to have a one night camping in Salak Mounting. 3D peugeot 504 volcano is located about 100 km south of Jakarta, with an altitude of about 1000m above sea leve

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