Can they hack multiple cars from a distance? Or just the car in their immediate vicinity?

These guys hacked one car from a distance. Took control of it from their laptops over the internet.

The video is worth watching.
http://video.wired.com/watch/hackers-wireless-jeep-attack-stranded-me-on-a-highway

yeah, I want a dumb car. fuck all of that park assist and lane correction sonar buullll shiiiit. That stuff is fraught with peril. And how do you NOT buy the extended warranty when you buy a car that has that kind of stuff going on?

Thats frightening.

With Obama opening relations with Cuba, just think of all the "dumb" cars
that will become available (cheaply ?) for restoration.

What's the shipping run for a 48 Chevy from Havana to, oh, say, central Pennsyltucky?

There's a Cuban rule against exporting them and they're all crap after all these years everything has been jerry rigged.

That is why you do a off the frame restoration.

What good will that do when everything has been butchered to adapt foreign parts and home built contraptions like gas from sugarcane converters.

About the only things you keep is the frame, body, and hard parts. Everything is either replaced or rebuilt.

The body's been butchered, the frame's been butchered, and the hard parts are mostly foreign or gone. You're better off with junk yard car, even if the body needs repairs, than one that's been eviscerated.

True. I have been hearing for years that they have been getting parts from Canada, but I don't know how true that is.

By the time you put the chocolate back in the thin candy shell it cost more than it's worth. :haha:
I'm sure there's jewels to be had, but searching them out and importing them would be way more than they are worth, except for the Cuban history bragging rights.

xoB's just trying to turn everyone else away while he corners the market. :cool:

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http://cellar.org/2015/truck1.jpg
On that 4 wheel drive pickup...
You're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... get on your way!”

Reminds me of my Uncles. One was routed home from a WW II South Pacific stint in the Seabees, via Alaska. He was mighty impressed, and when he heard they opened the Alcan Highway to the public in 1948, he talked his brother into going.

They took a new Ford pickup, bent pipe into loops about a foot higher than the cab, covered the loops with corrugated aluminum and wrapped it with heavy canvas to close the front and back. That kept most of the weather out but not the dust. Built a platform across the top of the bed sides for sleeping, and stowed gear underneath. At that time you could only buy a six foot step side bed, plus they had a 55 gallon drum up against the cab for gas, so it couldn't have been very comfy.

From MA to Alaska via the Alcan was a bit over 5,000 miles, that's five oil changes. When the Alcan was built under wartime pressure, they chose the easiest/fastest route to build. From then till the first time I drove it in I think '71, the trip was shortened by about 1,000 miles, 400 on the Alcan alone. But it still cost me a windshield every damn time.

Now it's mostly paved but in the 40s and 50s they'd come home in mid-November and head back by the first of March, while the road was frozen. As soon as it thawed the heavy truck traffic made the road as rough and muddy as a WW I battlefield.

My buddy made the run from California to Anchorage on a chopper Harley. He had to keep replacing disc brake pads because the dust would clog them up till it was constantly wearing the rotor. :eek:

One Uncle got married and stopped going in '55. The other took 35mm slides which documented the tremendous changes in Alaska from '49 through the mid 80s, but most were lost in a house fire.

Wait, what?

Yes sir, 1,000 miles was normal up until the early 50s, then higher compression(less blowby) and better motor oils pushed it to 3,000. I called ford because my '65 Mustang manual said I could push it more than 3,000. I got some engineer on the phone(you use to be able to do that if you had the time and somebody else was paying the bill), and his words were, "If you're not adventurous enough to get your money's worth, it's your problem." Set me back, because I can still remember his exact words.

Speaking of calling Detroit, I called Henry Ford II, person to person and they told me he was out of the office :rolleyes:, but they connected me to Lee Iacocca instead. Another time I called Chevy engineering to get the specs on a camshaft. The guy who answered said everybody was at lunch :rolleyes:, and he was a janitor, but he looked up the specs and they turned out to be spot on. :haha:

A "Rims" two-fer:

Three-fer, then:

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Hmmm... A guy I know with a junkyard auto recycling yard in Lancaster County. Over the years he had accumulated a huge pile of wheels. When we had a nasty snowstorm(feets of it) that took days to open secondary roads, he torched the pile. The fire department called to see what was up, although they couldn't get there anyway, he told them not to worry. When the fire was over he Just scooped up $17,000 worth of rims and tire belt steel. Fire is useful. :rolleyes:

:From Jalopnic.
:haha: :smack: :lol2: :tinfoil: :haha: :lol2: :haha: :lol2: :facepalm:

Looks like a flooded factory yard where new cars got swept tightly together by floodwaters and then somehow ignited. Those three cars on the upper left are identical to many of the burned cars and still have their protective vinyl sheets on them.

Amazing. Bananas are slippery little suckers. I wonder what the SAE viscosity numbers work out to?

Penning to was half inventor, credited by some with the word Motorcycle, and balloon tires, he won patents for Stirling engines, ignition systems, wood planers, and some type of pulleys. But the other half of him was the PT Barnum school of promoter, earning him a reputation as a fraud.

From WIKI

When big ideas outstripped tire technology...

Oh great, one more thing to worry about, lightning. :rolleyes:

Found this on the web, and if surprised me.
I worked with Charlie Kowchak at Boeing, saw this bike in his basement, and my fishing partner did his machine work.
Charlie's XLCH also beat Guy Leaming, my buddy's boss at Salem County HD, for the national title.
♫ It's a small world after all, It's a small world after all,... ♫ :smack:

Snap-On.

This was news to me.

I can see why they didn't keep records of it...they took a fairly attractive car and made it hideous.

ETA: I started to call this one 'unadorned', but, "Marilyn" is doing a mighty fine job of adorning it.

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Robbie Fucking Maddison.

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Robbie Maddison, who has done some pretty insane shit in his day, had this to say:

More (including a teaser vid clip that does NOT show the wave ride and ensuing wipeout) @ GrindTV

... at least he's still wearing his helmet

Ha!

I saw that clip yesterday too. OMFG. Definitely at the top of the "because I can" category. Good grief.

Fixed it.

The railroad cars and the Chevys were both designed to ship like that. The Vega's had to stand up without losing any fluids.

I remember reading that the radiator overflow reservoir, and the windshield washer reservoir were mounted and shaped so that they wouldn't lose fluid during shipping.

They did something with the carbs, too, I think. IIRC, they were shipped without the breather mounted, and some sort of catch container was attached to the carb to prevent fuel loss during shipping. Also, wasn't there a special baffle in the oil fill?

Yes, no, maybe?

Yes, I believe they had a baffle in the pan to keep the oil out of the forward cylinders in shipping.

Pffft, please. You guys act like it's some big mystery.












*Everybody* knows what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.

I started to say you can't do anything in the backseat of a Vega...But, I had a '78 Fiesta, so, I know that you can.;)

Ha ha, backseat of a '65 Mustang notchback, although I don't think the fastback had any more room. My buddy claimed he topped me with his '65 Corvette. ;)

Long great article about a salvage operation on a roll-on car carrier. There were some $110M worth of Mazdas and Isuzus that ended up being scrapped because the manufacturers didn't want to warranty them after they spent several months at a 60 degree incline.

http://archive.wired.com/science/dis...urrentPage=all

I remember that.

Shhhhh, don't tell the NSTB.

So the guy has a rope attached to the driver's arm, in order to pull himself back to the ground when he starts overturning?

That sounds safe.

Reins. For the legless, two-wheeled horse pulling the chariot.

Let the rider know when the charioteer has to stop and pee. ;)

Rich kids and poor kids have the same goals, just not the same means.

Ice, baby.

^EEK^ I know it's coming, but eek just the same.

Oh, the humanity...

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It can be yours, IF the price is right.

:mecry::mecry::mecry:

Sounds like you could put a milk crate in it for a seat and drive it home. I think you should grab it Gravdigr. It would be a fun project this winter

Very, very fixable, most of the chrome is in pretty good shape(probably repro), wiring harness and interior parts are available, but the Fuel Injection would be very expensive to fix. Of course after you spent a fortune to rebuild the fuel injection they run like shit, as all mechanical injections do. But '57 fuelies are so rare you'd have to do it anyway. :haha:

Gushers add insult to injury.

Heh, no. Too much money, tied up for way too long, with no guarantees.

Got no place to put it, anyway.

How in... just how?

Those Hippies in microbuses have spawn with more money and bigger ambitions.

New for 2016...

Traffic on Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills, LA, CA, in the mid 30s.
Lanes? We don't got no lanes. We don't need no stinkin' lanes!

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