Woody

 

1950's German three wheelers

Tempo Hanseat

Goliath Goli

 

Land yacht

 

Sark ambulance

 

The fire and ambulance services on the Channel Island of Sark are drawn by tractors as they are the only motor vehicles allowed on the island.

Florida driver escapes injury

It was reported the plywood was launched from the bed of a pickup truck whose driver was sited for insecure load.

Highway pirate throw back Thursday 11/29/2014

 

VW shorty

 

Can you hear me now?

 

Open cockpit

 

Toyota tub

 

Parallel parked

 

Practice makes perfect

 

Honda Curtiss throw back Thursday 12/31/2014

Soichiro Honda was the riding mechanic in the winning car (driven by Shinichi Sakakibara) in the Fifth Japan Motor Car Championship in November, 1924.

The son of a blacksmith, Honda left school at age 15 to work for Tokyo Art Shokai.  The company was involved with "manufacture and repair of automobiles, motorcycles and gasoline engines".

The car was powered by a 90 HP, 8.2 liter OX-5 engine from a Curtis "Jenny" biplane.  The car is on display in the Honda Collection Hall museum in Japan.

Soichiro Honda was involved in racing until 1936 when he and his brother, Benjiro, were involved in a terrible accident. Soichiro was driving and was thrown from the car in a rollover.  Benjiro was seriously injured.  He raced one more time before retiring.

Honda went on to build motorcycles and automobiles under the family name.

Big lift

 

Race day

 

My Jakarta hero

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I was working a job in Jakarta, Indonesia in 2011. I had a day off because a container hadn't arrived. I went out to get some money changed. After taking care of that I abandoned my plan to have a look around the city. Suffice it to say that Jakarta was not the type of place you would just wander around taking in the sights.

I hailed a cab and went back to the compound where we were staying. About an hour later there was a knock at the door. The man explained that they had received a call from a driver that one of his fares had left a camera in his taxi. The driver gave a description of a white male and they wondered if it was me or one of my coworkers. I checked and sure enough my camera was missing. He explained that they would call the driver to tell him that they had located the owner of the camera.

Shortly thereafter I walked down to the office to see what had transpired. I was told the taxi was not close but that at the end of his shift he would bring the camera to the desk. I told them if that actually happened to come get me.

Sure enough, later that day they came back and told me the taxi was there. I went down and the driver handed me the camera. It would have been so much easier for the driver to just keep the camera, but he made the effort to come back at the end of his shift to return it to me. I thanked him and shook his hand. When I started to give him money he shook his head "no". I asked the desk clerk to explain how pleased I was and that I felt his honesty should be rewarded. After a short exchange between them the driver shyly accepted the money.

It was a nice experience and it still makes me smile when I think of it.

1952 Renault 4cv

This smells a bit like a 3rd cousin of a Porsche 356

 

Highway tunes

 

Off grid

 

Ray E. Gookin

A good story about a man with an incredible work ethic and his old truck. Ray died in June 1975. Based on his story I would guess he was working up until that time if he was able. I first saw this story on theoldmotor.com

Mitsuoka K2

 

VolksJeep

 

Fly in

Richard Hollingshead opened the first drive in theater in Camden, New Jersey in 1933. In 1949 Lou Segrini built the Dennis-Drive-in-Fly-in theater near Cape Cod. Read more here.

Hong Kong apartment living

 

Citroen

 

Way beyond just plain luck

 

Bac Son Valley, Vietnam throwback Thursday 3/29/13

 

Street traffic