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Monday, September 26, 2011

Smallest electric car... was advertised as being able to fit in your doghouse

from the back page of the Sept 2011 Popular Science magazine

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Learning something new all the time... Plymouth made an SUV.. 1974 to 1981

http://www.mclellansautomotive.com/literature/items/plymouth/b28438-plymouth-1974-brochure.php

this is one of those odd examples of a car company that never made trucks (in America anyway)... like Mercury or Pontiac doing the unthinkable.

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Trains do burnouts too, destructively but not intentionally

read about it at http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2011/07/railroad-train-does-burnout-of-tracks.html but in short, some trains have several engines, and this time, only the manned engine turned on the brakes, the rest kept spinning the tires up to and after the brakes throughout the rest of the entire train brought it and kept it at a stop