This book by the popular author Jess Walter is a love story that begins on the Italian Coast in the early 60s and eventually concludes in contemporary Hollywood's screen. As the settings shift from Italy to Edinburgh and Los Angeles, you will find yourself longing to go as well. Buy it ...
The four-post lift is a very popular and versatile car lift. It is suitable for both light and heavy automobiles owing to its sturdy structure. It is suitable for both servicing cars and trucks in a busy auto shop as well as for storing ...
Although its performance was not as vivid as that of the hotter full-size cars, one of the Knudsen-Estes-DeLorean team’s most interesting technological achievements was thePontiac Tempest, Pontiac’s Y-body “senior compact,” introduced along with itsBuick Specialand Oldsmobile F-85 cousins i...
Toy cars in the 1920s were neither toys nor collectibles. The micro-sized models were created by car companies for promotional purposes. By the 1950s, however, they’d become a hobby among young boys and older men alike. Most model cars were made of materials like tin, steel, and die-...
Then my sisters and sisters-in-law went into 12 , planning a big holiday turkey dinner. On the 13 Sunday, we all met at my house and loaded the trees in a pickup truck. I 14 as Santa Claus. Then off we went, nine or 10 cars 15 with people and food, plus the pickup. When ...
In fact, from Bell Labs, the first semiconductors came to life. Spurring the whole computer industry first, then the Internet. Between the end of the 1800s and until the 1950-60s, Bell Labs played a crucial role in developing the most critical innovations (from scaling the phone business to...
about showing easily recognizable, expensive items that even people who can’t afford them will identify for what they are. A good example is that brands like Rolex or Rolls Royce are well-known as expensive luxuries even if the people recognizing them don’t know much about watches or cars...
Footage showed cars splashing through roads partly inundated with water, as several swollen rivers flooded in eastern Japan. Some 4,700 houses in the region were without power by Friday evening, while some train services were suspended, officials said. ...
Ironically, it was actually Honda that was the first to break the grounds of Japanese luxury cars in the US, not the LS400. In fact, if not for the Legend, the successful experiment that LS400 was, might have never happened. Interestingly, both LS400 and Legend are not frameless/pillar...
As Bond first drives his car, the scene is reminiscent of the Swiss Aston Martin chase. The henchmen who fights Bond in the casino resembles Oddjob Bond to Q: “You must be joking.” Patrice, like Oddjob, speaks no dialogue Bond in shadow leaves his DB5 for his lodge in a match ...