You Can't Make This Stuff Up!

[Lee Stewart]

Originally Posted by Dave Rifkin

JMO but cars like that are part of the downfall of NASCAR. I enjoyed watching much more when cars were actually closer to a factory offering. That thing is as much of a Mustang as my 2002 Nissan XTerra is.
I get all the safety stuff; that is great for the sport but can't they at least make the cars resemble the model they're supposed to be?

Well . . . the front end looks like a showroom Mustang.

The days of allowing showroom car like race cars to compete in NASCAR is ancient history and will IMO never return. Too many chances for what happened in the 1969 and 1970 seasons: Manufacturers "buying" wins through the creation of purpose built race cars sold to the public so they could be homologated into NASCAR.

Now it's all about the drivers not the cars. Making the cars "equal" (That's a laugh with all the cheating that goes on) takes away a manufacturers incentive to create such cars.

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You might expect one of America’s gambling innovators to have lived in a rather spectacular home, so William Fisk Harrah's former waterside mansion should not disappoint! The home of the Nevada-based entrepreneur has hosted Frank Sinatra and his Rat Pack, and is currently for sale with Compass Realty for $25.75 million.

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The remotely operated vehicle Hercules is retrieved from the waters off Nikumaroro Island onto the deck of the E/V Nautilus after the last day of searching for Amelia Earhart’s missing Lockheed Electra 10e. Ballard and his team were unsuccessful in finding any evidence of her plane.

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Originally Posted by Lee Stewart

There's a pair to draw too ...

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THE 1939 PONTIAC PLEXIGLASS ‘GHOST CAR’

– The highlight of the 1939-40 World’s Fair in New York and the first transparent car ever built in America
– Series 26. 85 bhp, 222.7 cu. in. L-head six-cylinder engine, three-speed manual transmission, coil spring independent front suspension, live rear axle with semi-elliptic leaf springs, and four-wheel hydraulic drum brakes.
– The structural metal underneath was given a copper wash, and all hardware, including the dashboard, was chrome plated. Rubber moldings were made in white, as were the car’s tires
– Cost a reported $25,000 to build (using Consumer Price Index to estimate inflation, it is approx. $388,000 in 2010 US dollars)
– Car still rides on its original white tires with odometer reading of 86 miles (138 km)
– Does not have a conventional vehicle identification number