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    I guess the Times are Changing with $300 Billion announced for Electric Vehicle Production Worldwide

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     “Worldwide we have seen more than $300 billion dollars announced for electric vehicle production and not one dime is destined for Canada. Our members want that to change.”

    Unifor selects Ford Motor Company to set pattern in auto talks

    TORONTO—Unifor National President Jerry Dias has chosen Ford Motor Company as the union’s strike target to set the pattern agreement with the Detroit Three automakers.

    “I selected Ford because we think the company is prepared to reward our members, make a commitment to continue manufacturing in Canada, and has a vision that we think is in the best interest of the industry and the economy,” said Jerry Dias, Unifor National President, speaking at a news conference streamed live on Unifor’s Facebook page. “Worldwide we have seen more than $300 billion dollars announced for electric vehicle production and not one dime is destined for Canada. Our members want that to change.”

    For decades, it has been the union’s practice to strategically choose which of the three Detroit Three companies the union will negotiate with first—setting a pattern agreement for auto workers in Canada. There are multiple factors considered by the union, in consultation with the master bargaining committees, in making this decision, based on two key goals: building Canada’s auto industry and achieving the union’s bargaining objectives.

    Once an agreement with the target company is ratified by members, bargaining shifts to a second company, and then the third. 

    “The Oakville assembly plant is the last of Ford’s assembly plants left in Canada and has no firm product commitment beyond the current generation of the Ford Edge. This is a significant problem for our members and it should be a concern for all levels of government,” said Dias.

    “Our members are pleased to go first and want to forge their own destiny, which is why we have worked hard to build a productive relationship with this employer,” said John D’Agnolo, Chair of the Ford Master Bargaining Committee and President of Unifor Local 200.

    Unifor represents 6,300 workers at Ford Motor Company, 9,000 workers at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and 4,100 at General Motors.

    Unifor opened formal contract talks in Toronto on August 12th, with the theme The Future is Made in Canada. The union has repeatedly urged the federal government to create  a comprehensive manufacturing strategy for the auto sector, given that every auto assembly job creates or supports as many as 10 additional jobs throughout the economy.

    A digital media kit be found on this website and a downloadable 4K version of today’s news conference is available to media upon request.

     
    Unifor is Canada’s largest union in the private sector, representing 315,000 workers in every major area of the economy. The union advocates for all working people and their rights, fights for equality and social justice in Canada and abroad, and strives to create progressive change for a better future.

    Best Place for an Old Car Guy to Retire?

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    Saw this headline today

     

    Almost 1,000 people move to Florida EVERY DAY as families abandon northern cities like New York, New Jersey and Connecticut - with home sales more than doubling in some parts of the Sunshine State

    • Home sales in some parts of Florida have more than doubled since the pandemic 
    • Roughly 950 move to Florida a day and many come from high-tax Northern cities like New York, New Jersey and Connecticut 
    • In Palm Beach County new single-family home contracts over $1million saw a 268% increase compared to last year 
    • The wealthy end of the market swelled 'across the major markets of South Florida' as well as Tampa and St. Pete since the start of the pandemic
    • Experts say many people are still moving to the Sunshine State fearing that a second wave of COVID-19 could hit with flu season 

    1935 Auburn Speedster parts missing after Restoration anyone have some ?

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    1935 auburn Speedster.if anyone recognizes this car,it was taking apart around 2008-2012 by someone /body shop.car has been apart till now.looking for parts that has been disassembled and never returned to the late owner.project was stopped cause of medical reasons.i have purchased this car and looking to rebuild it.missing parts,windshield frame,headlights,convertible top,gas tank,name plates etc.if you have any information please call 613 915 5730 or text .willing to pay a finders fee.thank you.

     

     

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    California Fires are causing people to buy their own Fire Trucks to protect their property Craigslist has seen a huge demand

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    DIY firefighting: Californians are spending up to $69K buying their own firetrucks on Craigslist to protect themselves against the annual blazes that scorch the state

    • People are buying their own fire trucks on Craigslist following devastating lightning-sparked wildfires in California 
    • Craiglist sellers are advertising fire trucks ranging between $5,000 to $69,000
    • Sacramento company Vans From Japan, which buys trucks from Japan and sells them in California, is now cashing in on the demand by selling fire trucks 
    • Wildfires have caused insurance premiums to rise, the wealthy to hire private firefighters and fire trucks to protect their land 
    • Today more than 14,200 firefighters are battling over 20 major fires and lightning complexes across the state as 18,200 people remain evacuated 

     

    People are buying their own fire trucks on Craigslist following devastating lightning-sparked wildfires in California. This seller is advertising a 53-year-old Ford fire truck saying: 'With these lightning complex fires going on, mabe you could use it'

     

     

    This fire truck with a 1985 Pierce Dash Fire engine from Skywalker Ranch is on the market for $5,000

     

     

     

     

    This 2013 Peterbilt water truck that 'meets all Cal Fire specs' is on sale for $69,999 in Pacifica, California

    You think the streets are cluttered with E-bikes, Scooters, etc well here is a $7,000 Cube car on it's way no Licence required

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    Citroen targets Parisian teens with £5,000 cube-shaped electric car that offers over-14s a 'safe' alternative to public transport during the coronavirus pandemic

    • Dinky new cube car from French manufacturer can be driven without a licence
    • Citroen Ami is all-electric and designed to appeal to eco-conscious commuters
    • It's available to rent and buy in France and will soon come to other Euro markets

    While the £5,054 two-seater vehicle is safe to operate on city roads, drivers can't travel much further than the city, as the range is only 44 miles. 

    The 100-year-old French automobile maker is targeting eco-conscious youth with the affordable fully-electric vehicle, which reaches a top speed of 30 miles an hour. 

    Ami is not yet available in the UK, although Citroen plans to expand to other markets in Europe this year. 

    itroen says the vehicle combines all the advantages of 100 per cent electric technology with 'a bold and colourful design and ease of use' and has the potential to become 'an urban and popular icon'.

    'With this new and unique urban mobility vehicle, the brand is aiming to make individual mobility available to in the city,'  it says on its website. 

    'Ami One is for urban customers with or without a driver’s licence who share the love of the brand with the same love for freedom of movement.'  

     

    Once inside, drivers place their phone in front of them in the designated wireless charging area and the dialogue between Ami One and the driver begins. 

    The information from the phone is displayed in the driver’s field of vision while they're driving as a replacement for the conventional dashboard.   

    Citroen Ami is classified as a light quadricycle, and could potentially be driven by youngsters in the UK as long as they have passed the government's compulsory basic training for riding a moped. 

    In France, children as young as 14 will be allowed to drive the car, where Citroen plans to make them available for long-term rental at £17 a week with a £2,227 deposit, or 22p a minute on a car-sharing basis.  

    The Ami car is also available to buy outright for £5,054 online and through French electronics retailer Fnac Darty, the biggest electronics and entertainment chain. 

     

    CITROEN AMI SPECS 

    Speed: 30mph

    Dimensions: 8 feet long, 4.5 feet wide

    Range: 44 miles

    Capacity: Two passengers 

    Charge: 5.5kWh lithium ion battery

    Charge time: Three hours 

    Price:  £5,054

     

    A Free2Move free-floating car-sharing service new electric car with a customised pattern. The eye-catching exteriors should attract Paris's artistic types

     

     

    PSA's Citroen new electric city cars AMI for Free2Move free-floating car-sharing service are seen during a media presentation in Paris in August

     

     

    The car is almost 8 feet long and 4.5 feet wide, which helps it fit into small parking spaces in busy and congested areas

     

     

    Citroen plans mainly to sell the car online. Two-seater cars can be driven without a licence in major European markets

    So the Internal Combustion Engine is still good for something as cars, trucks, all -terrain vehicles head lights illuminate a Airport runway in Alaska to save the life of a little girl

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    It takes a village: Residents of Alaska town with a population of 70 rally to illuminate a runway with their car headlights so sick girl can be airlifted to hospital 280 miles away in Anchorage

    • Residents of a remote Alaska village lit up a runway with light from their cars on Friday night so a child could be airlifted to hospital
    • The Department of Transportation has been out trying to fix runway lights at the small airport several times this year and last week they didn't work
    • A resident heard the medical transport plane circling overhead the Southwest Alaska village of Igiugig and rallied her neighbors to help out
    • Another neighbor made 32 calls, gathering almost every household in the village
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    Residents of a remote Alaska village scrambled to help save the life of a child, jumping into their vehicles to light up a pitch-black small airport runway as a medical transport plane struggled to land.

    The pilot circled overhead the Southwest Alaska village of Igiugig while neighbors desperately tried to switch on runway lights but it took an entire village to illuminate the area at the mouth of the Kvichak River on Iliamna Lake.

    Ida Nelson said she had just gotten out of a steam bath when she heard the sound of what she initially believed was a truck. However she realized it could be an emergency plane because it was after 11pm. 

     

    Nelson noticed that the runway lights weren't on so she took her ATV to the runway a few hundred yards from her home and another neighbor made 32 phone calls requesting help.

    'That's pretty much almost every household in this village. Pretty much every cell phone here,' Nelson said.

    People were running around in pajamas to help out while Nelson and others on the ground coordinated via phone and radio. 

     

    They staggered cars, trucks and all-terrain vehicles down the length of the runway, using their headlights to show the by LifeMed Alaska pilot where to land Friday night, Alaska's Energy Desk reported.

    'Normally if you push the button like 10 or 15 times the lights will just light up,' Nelson said. 'But they didn't and so the medevac plane flew over the village.'

    LifeMed Alaska posted a photo on social media showing a straight line of lights in the distance. 'What appears to be a blurry, dark photo is actually a view of what an amazing community can do with a lot of determination,' the company wrote.

    The child was safely evacuated to Anchorage and has since been released from hospital.

     

    I was anxious and nervous and I was like what if that was my baby [waiting for that] plane,' Nelson told KTOO. 

    'And so, once she was able to get the patient on the plane, everybody still stayed in their positions and he was able to taxi out, taxi down the runway and take off.'

    Department of Transportation spokesperson Sam Dapcevich said on Sunday that crews have been out to the airport multiple times this year repairing lights that had been vandalized and run over during winter maintenance and were out there as recently as last week to fix a wiring problem.

    'They will be returning soon to repair the damaged lights and make sure the system is operational,' he said in a text message, adding: 'We're glad the community was able to safely guide the medevac flight in.'

    'Vandalism on Alaska’s small airports does occur every year,' spokeswoman Shannon K. McCarthy said in an email to the New York Times on Sunday. 

    'And the state has been working to educate all Alaskans as to the importance of protecting the infrastructure, particularly the role it plays in emergencies, such medical flights. 

    'We respond to any reports of damaged runway lights and repair them as quickly as we can.'

     

    Residents of a remote Alaska village lit up a runway with light from their cars on Friday night so a child could be airlifted to hospital

     

     

    A resident heard the medical transport plane circling overhead the Southwest Alaska village of Igiugig and rallied her neighbors to help out

     

     

    The King Air flight was sent to the state-owned airport from Kodiak which is 30 minutes away as a little girl had to be rushed to the nearest hospital 280 miles away

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    Man travels 3,600 miles in a 1929 Ford A coast to coast along Route 66

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    Man travels 3,600 miles in a 1929 Ford Model A along famed Route 66

    • Ryan Tebo had never been beyond Pennsylvania until he headed across the country on a road trip this month
    • The 30-year-old motor enthusiast from New Hampshire started in Illinois on August 13 and ended in California on August 22
    • There were no major issues with the motor, last driven by its previous owner 10 years ago, but he made stops at quaint car shops and had help from locals
    • Tebo received hundreds of messages from people supporting his slow journey 

    A 30-year-old New Hampshire native has driven across Route 66 in the height of summer in a 1929 Model A, taking in the famous sights in just nine days while rarely breaking 45 mph.

     

    Ryan Tebo – who had never been beyond Pennsylvania – spent several days driving from New Hampshire and arrived at the route's eastern branch starting point in Chicago, Illinois on August 13 and made it to Santa Monica, California in the three-speed manual by August 22.

     

    Despite the sweltering 115 degrees Fahrenheit heat in places, and the coronavirus pandemic, Tebo documented his 3,600-mile-journey on social media and found it was the ideal time to take a road trip in the Ford motor which has no electronic fuel injection and drum brakes.

     

    ‘It’s a good driver, which is what I look for—I like them pretty much original. I won't buy one that's been chopped or anything like that, but I'm not so crazy that it has the right spark plugs in it for the period.'

    Just days into his trip on August 16, Death Valley, California recorded the highest temperature recorded on earth at 130 degrees. Meanwhile Tebo was heading toward the West Coast in a motor with a decades old cooling system.

     

    Tebo said there were no major issues with the motor, last driven by its previous owner 10 years ago. The only times it would have had to hit 55 mph was when it overlapped with interstates.

     

    He only had to fix the carburetor on Day 2 when he smelled burning and realized an aluminum component had warped and begun to leak between the intake and carb.

     

    Tebo also constantly had to refill the radiator on the old motor he picked up on Facebook Marketplace because it was regularly boiling over but after details of his journey were shared on Facebook, he made some new friends across the country.

     

    'You watch the news and you think America's really in a bad spot,' Tebo said in an interview with Hagerty. 'If I go off what I've seen so far, I don't know where the news is getting their information from.

    'The people really surprised me - how outgoing they are, and how willing they are to help. I've gotten hundreds of messages from the United States and all over the world [from] people that are watching.' 

    Tebo – who is from a small town – said he identifies with the people who reached out to him excitedly as with the arrival of interstates, many roadside restaurants and other businesses have lost customers.

    Pictures taken on Tebo's phone show iconic locations along the route such as in Tulsa, Oklahoma as well as the quaint motels, gas stations and beautiful horizons along the winding highway.

     

    After getting his certificate of completion on the Santa Monica Pier, he took a different route back starting up the Pacific Coast Highway and heading along the Oregon Trail.

     

    He told followers that tackling roads with 10 per cent gradients between Oregon and Wyoming was 'interesting' going up and coming down.

     

    Tebo shared shots of Mt Rushmore in South Dakota (pictured) last week and also noted a few 'close calls' with elk

     

    'The people really surprised me - how outgoing they are, and how willing they are to help,' Tebo said. 'I've gotten hundreds of messages from the United States and all over the world'

     

    The old car is seen leaving Black Hills National Forest in South Dakota this month

     

    The motor is pictured outside a Bates Motel sign near Route 66 in Amarillo, Texas

     

     

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    The Sultan of Burnei's car collection of 7,000 cars worth $5 billion

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    604 Rolls Royce

    574 Mercedes Benz

    452 Ferrari

    209 BMW

    179 Jaguar

    134 Konenigsegg

    21 Lamborghini

    11 Astro Martin

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    The car collection of the 29th Sultan of Brunei is the largest private car collection in the world, consisting of approximately 7,000 cars which have an estimated combined value over $5 billion USD. The 29th Sultan of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah, is one of the last absolute monarchs of the modern era. He is the 29th (and current) Sultan and Yang di-Pertuan, Prime Minister, Defence Minister, Finance Minister, and Head of Religion of the Nation of Brunei. The majority of his wealth is sourced from oil and gas development, which has allowed him to amass a net worth of $20 billion USD, making him the second richest royal in the world after King of Thailand, Maha Vajiralongkorn. This wealth combined with his interest in cars has allowed the Sultan to purchase over 2,000 cars, including more than 600 Rolls-Royces, 550 Mercedes-Benzes, 450 Ferraris. Within his collection of cars, the Sultan’s collection of Ferrari F40s, McLaren F1s, and Rolls-Royces are particularly notable due to the rarity of the vehicles and their values.  

    Electric Corvette

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    All these changes in cars are called

     

    Disruptive technology is an innovation that significantly alters the way that consumers, industries, or businesses operate. A disruptive technology sweeps away the systems or habits it replaces because it has attributes that are recognizably superior.

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