Who would have possibly thought this was a good promotion? Should have been restored and displayed.
How not to promote a new dealership.
Couple more pictures.
How not to promote a new dealership.
Couple more pictures.
Cadillac drop
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Digging further beyond that story, in the same link, was this link about junkyards:
http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2011/12/06/lost-junkyards-project-newport-vermont/
This was one of the pics in the article. Anyone care to venture a guess as to make & model of the ambulance on the left?
http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2011/12/06/lost-junkyards-project-newport-vermont/
This was one of the pics in the article. Anyone care to venture a guess as to make & model of the ambulance on the left?
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It's art alright, it deserves to be buried now.
Kinda reminds me of the TV show "WKRP in Cincinnati" Thanksgiving special, where they dropped live turkeys from a helicopter.....
(For those that didn't see it, this was a sitcom. The fictional radio station was dropping turkeys from a helicopter. But, in the words of Mr. Carlson, "As g*d is my witness, I didn't know turkeys can't fly." Of course, on the show, the turkey drop is described by a radio reporter. No actual turkeys were harmed in filming the show. Unlike the Cadillac drop...)
Kinda reminds me of the TV show "WKRP in Cincinnati" Thanksgiving special, where they dropped live turkeys from a helicopter.....
(For those that didn't see it, this was a sitcom. The fictional radio station was dropping turkeys from a helicopter. But, in the words of Mr. Carlson, "As g*d is my witness, I didn't know turkeys can't fly." Of course, on the show, the turkey drop is described by a radio reporter. No actual turkeys were harmed in filming the show. Unlike the Cadillac drop...)
I like the dealership's quote in Hemmings:
Must be a 1950's hybrid with both a motor AND engine...
Must be a 1950's hybrid with both a motor AND engine...
John Dorgan - Deceased - 1938 - 2012
March 05,1938 - May 13, 2012
Motor-engine
When I went through helicopter school back in 1955/56, we were taught that automobile ENGINES should never be called MOTORS. Motors convert electrical energy to mechanical energy while engines convert chemical energy to mechanical energy. Although maybe not 100% correct, this is basically the rule. This "trusim" falls in the same class as calling every lens a dome. "an Aerodynic dome" The only beacons using domes of which I am aware are the Federal 17-170 series, some of the Baader Brown beacons and some of the Dominion Auto domes.
My rant for today.
John Dorgan
When I went through helicopter school back in 1955/56, we were taught that automobile ENGINES should never be called MOTORS. Motors convert electrical energy to mechanical energy while engines convert chemical energy to mechanical energy. Although maybe not 100% correct, this is basically the rule. This "trusim" falls in the same class as calling every lens a dome. "an Aerodynic dome" The only beacons using domes of which I am aware are the Federal 17-170 series, some of the Baader Brown beacons and some of the Dominion Auto domes.
My rant for today.
John Dorgan
Just ask a Navy guy what kinda boat he served on.
Too easy Drill Sergeant - that Navy guy would have been on a submarine.
Good job, or serving in the brown water navy.
as long as you could pick it up and put it on the ship it was a boat. picked up some pretty big boats in my day. a mike 6 went about 90 ton. we even had a engine that you started to turn on a motor to generate electricity. in fact we had a engine we started to generate electricity to start the compressor to start the engine to start the motor to generate electricity. one dead battery and the whole system failed leaving you in the dark with out the electricily to start it.:drama: