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THE 12 DAYS OF QUARANTINE - A Chris Mann Music Parody - YouTube
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The question remains whether or not this vehicle will bring a higher price than the first Cobra ever build, CSX2000, which sold for US$13.75 million.
Carroll Shelby’s personal 427 Cobra will cross the auction block January 2021, and has the potential to be the most expensive American car ever sold.
CSX3178 was Carroll’s personal Cobra; he owned it from the day it rolled out of his own factory in 1965 all the way up to his death in 2012.
The vehicle is quite a rare spec for a Cobra, on top of its vaunted ownership pedigree. No side pipes, no hood scoop, no roll bar, and skinny rear tires are a combination rarely seen for such a serious sports car. It’s also one of only five 427 Cobras painted in Charcoal Gray.
Carroll being a hot rodder, however, couldn’t leave his own vehicle well enough alone, and at some point repainted it Guardsman blue, and swapped out the original Ford Top-loader four-speed manual transmission for a C6 automatic. The car would be repainted red at some point during his ownership as well.
CSX3178 was restored in 2019 back to its original specification in Charcoal Grey with a four-speed manual.
The vehicle will be auctioned at Mecum’s next sale in Kissimmee the second week of January 2021, and the lot will include detailed documentation, such as a reprint of the original Shelby American invoice, AC Cars invoice, and a picture of Carroll and Dan Gurney posing next to the car.
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I keep hearing about Tesla and the company is worth more than other car companies.
So is this below correct ? ?
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The Reo Royale member had his oil gears rebuilt by EGGE and his oil pressure increased.
Got the new pump installed.
Check out the oil pressure !
This is warmed up at idle
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I asked a Reo Member familiar with Reo's here is his response.
Sorry, but I cannot help.
1. The photo is blurry2. About all one can see that COULD be Reo, the rest undoubtably being a custom built bus, is the hood louvres and headlights.3. The headlights would seem to indicate pre 1927, or at the very latest 1927, a period I am not very familiar with. -
I know a fellow who fixes appliances he says old stoves lasted for years and now maybe 10 years as the circuit boards go.
Usually from the heat from the high heat from the self cleaning option.
Old fridges lasted for 25 years and now the new ones maybe 10 years.
They keep saying you are saving electricity but if you factor in making the appliances in a far away land.
Getting the appliances to port shipping them across the ocean loading them on a train unloading and distributing them for a short life span.
The old appliances used less energy in my humble opinion and were made locally and repairable.
How much energy is used up everyday with military planes flying around navy ships cruising around 24 hours a day 7 days a week.
Leave the old cars alone the old car owners will be gone in a few years and then they can scrap them.
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I heard on the radio that Tesla is shaking up the Electric car business again by including all the electronic upgrades in their cars.
So when the average car or the most expensive goes down the assembly line.
All they have to do is add a switch in the computer to activate that upgrade in the car.
The average car just wouldn't have a gadget activated unless you pay which makes it more a more expensive car.
No more having to add all sorts of extra equipment to the car.
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" To prevent something like this from happening again try taking your coffee with less cream and sugar. "
I have not had a coffee in 40 years it was for the wife.
Believe it or not the server offered me another coffee and was not concerned at all about the coffee all over my dash.
For some reason no one can make a cup of coffee at home anymore.
I remember Jay Leno saying in one of his opening monologue's about the expense of Starbucks coffee and wishing someone would invent instant coffee.
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I have a 2016 Toyota and some coffee splashed on to the dash due to the server giving me a coffee with a loose lid and it went on to the dash air recycle button.
Now the recycle button gets stuck when pushed in and finally releases and pops out after about 20 minutes.
Is there a spray to loosen it ?
I was thinking of a electronic cleaner.
I tried looking on the internet and someone suggested brake cleaner.
Any suggestions.
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First glimpse inside a sunken cargo ship: 400ft anchor chain slices through the Golden Ray to reveal 4,200 Hyundai cars not seen since the vessel capsized last September off Brunswick, Georgia
- The Golden Ray capsized near the Port of Brunswick in September 2019, with 4,000 cars onboard
- Engineers are finally demolishing the boat, using an anchor chain to saw it into eight sections
- A giant floating crane is lifting up parts of the dismantled ship before they will be taken to Gulf coast
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Beautiful car collection that is only open to the Public 3 times a year.
I wonder how he made his money to afford a collection like this let alone the space.
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I am located in Toronto, Canada
I was inquiring for the Reo Royale Group of owners trying to restore their Reo's
I will pass along the contact information Larry and thanks for responding.
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This is all I know from Joe in Canada
I know the dismantled car and the driver car. They were both owned by a good friend who restored the one and started the second. The second one got side tracked by a 1963 Buick Riviera then a 1937 LaSalle touring he had restored. The DOT revoked his licence to drive the day before he was to take the 37 on its first vintage tour and then passed after a very long painful battle with cancer
The driver in the first picture stayed in the family and the project was bought by a close friend of Jim's who I also know. The last I heard was the new owner I have not seen in a while is not well.
What I can remember of this project was it was complete and very nice sheet metal. I remember Jim sold his tons of extra REO parts off to a fellow in the US before he passed. He also sold some of his other cars including one to me and the family got one each.
Jim was far from a shot in the dark car hobby type of guy all his short life. Plus the current owner is far from new in the hobby. There are different reasons why these projects come up for sale.
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LOTS MORE PHOTOS IN THE ARTICLE
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8971019/96-years-Macys-Parade-1924-today-history-Americas-favorite-Thanksgiving-spectacle.html
Making of the Macy's Parade (when it was EPIC): How 8,000 volunteers and performers would join 900 clowns and live animals from Central park zoo to pull off America's favorite Thanksgiving spectacle
- Due to the coronavirus pandemic, this year's annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade will be done as a virtual event to avoid large crowds; the parade draws 3.5 million spectators annually and 50 million viewers on TV
- The celebrated holiday tradition began in 1924 with live animals borrowed from the zoo, nursery-rhyme themed floats and marching employees costumed as clowns, cowboys, jesters and sword-wielding knights
- It's the world's largest parade and second oldest Thanksgiving parade, after rival department store, Gimbels, staged a celebration in 1920 to usher in the holiday spending season
- The parade has only been cancelled three times in its 96-year-long history during WWII, between 1942-1944; it was grounded due to helium and rubber rations
- It takes 8,000 people each year to pull off the parade, which includes 200 costume fitters that dress 2,000 balloon handlers, 400 kids, 300 float escorts, and 900 clowns
- A team of engineers, painters, sculptors, carpenters, construction workers and metal workers labor year round at the Macy's Parade Studio in New Jersey to create and maintain the balloons
The annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade began in 1924 as a way to showcase the 'World's Largest Store' and usher in the Christmas shopping season. It has since grown to be the largest parade in the world with 3.5 million visitors each year. Macy's copied the idea from their department store rival, Gimbels, who first staged a holiday parade in 1920. Above is Laffo The Clown pictured in 1940, he was recycled from the previous year's Tin Man balloon and eventually donated to the war effort for rubber in 1942
Elephants march single file in the first Macy's Parade in 1924. It was originally called the 'Macy's Christmas Parade' and featured a menagerie of animals that were on loan from the Central Park Zoo: elephants, monkeys, camels, tigers and bears on loan from the Central Park Zoo marched between floats alongside brass bands and Macy's employees who were costumed as clowns, cowboys, jesters and sword-wielding knights
Animal and character balloons were first introduced in 1927 to replace the live zoo animals that were frighting children. The inflatables were designed by marionette puppet master Tony Sarg and produced by the Goodyear Tire Company. Above, a hippo floats above Times Square in 1940
This big crybaby balloon was one of the features in the 1934 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade which paraded down Broadway, bringing joy to the hearts of the thousands of kiddies who lined the route. By 1933, the parade had attracted more than 1 million spectators
Among the very first balloons that made their debut in 1927 was this 127-foot-long dragon that was filled with oxygen (not helium), propped up on stilts, and paraded through the streets. Other notable puppets that year a 'human behemoth,' a toy soldier, a dinosaur and Felix the Cat
Macy's was originally a dry goods store known as R. H. Macy & Co, that opened its first location in New York City on 14th Street in 1858. In 1902 the store moved 20 blocks north to a new flagship location on 34th Street (above), which at the time, was considered so remote they had to provide a steam wagonette to transport customers to and from lower Manhattan. In 1924, Macy's officially became the 'World's Largest Store' with 1.1 million square feet of retail space, that covers an entire city block
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Toronto’s facadism has taken some interesting turns of late. That’s the peculiar practice of preserving the front of an older building and erecting a new one behind it. Many other cities do it, but Toronto’s explosive growth and sometimes-dithering commitment to heritage preservation makes for an abundance of historical curiosities here.
Some facadism just slices off and preserves the first layer of a building, like the 1921 studio that belonged to renowned architect John Lyle that was dismantled and rebuilt as part of the One Bedford condominium on Bloor St.
Nowadays it provides an elegant front to the Starbucks outlet on the ground floor, but behind the door it’s pure 21st-century coffee chain, with no further traces of what was. On Broadway Ave., the facade of the old North Toronto Collegiate has been incorporated into the new school building, which itself is part of two condo buildings.
On the University of Toronto campus a number of the historical mansions on St. George St. were renovated and wholly incorporated as part of new school buildings, a kind of facadism that goes much deeper by preserving the entire building.
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They should at least save the sculptures in the Facade.
Here in Toronto they would make them save the front wall of the building.
There is an old GE Plant from the 1950's that the front of the buildings is all that is basically left.
There is also a two storey brick building which is the old Reo Plant in Toronto they saved which I cannot post the picture.
The Toronto Preservation Board wants the city to designate the two-storey Reo Durant structure under the Ontario Heritage Act. But a proposal for a retirement residence featuring two buildings of seven and eight storeys and 284 units, has also been floated for the site and adjacent property at 146 Laird. If permitted, the buildings would mark the first large-scale residential development on the commercial-retail strip. A pre-hearing was scheduled last month at the OMB.
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Thanks for the techniques and pictures very appreciated.
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This oil pump belongs to a Reo Royale owner who needed new gears.
He sourced out Egge Machine Company who can do the work.
I think it is around $200 for the over haul and the two gears.
Plus other Royale Members need parts so I figured I would ask if there were other suppliers.
Thanks for all the responses from everyone.
Ever hear of building a boat in the basement and cannot get out. In 1939 they built a Fire Truck in a Fire Station and could not get it out. What type of chassis did they use it looks like a Reo Fire Truck beside it ?
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They had a similar trouble with the local Fire Department and a new Ariel truck they purchased would not go through the existing doors so they modified the brand new Fire truck.
In our main city of Toronto they bought new subway cars and they were too high for the existing platforms. More money to fix the cars.