Tesla has begun making money. After all was said and done they walked away with 11.2 million dollars. Helps when Motor Trend give your product the Car of the Year Award, as they did with the Model S.
Total units sold was 4,900.
I say good for them. I think they’ve earned it, after 10 years of various struggles.
Model S
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Tim
Time Capsule of Chevrolets – Neatorama.
This is crazy cool. Which I was there with some $$$$
Check out the video link below.
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Tim
This is my latest segment. It will be a frequent blathering of car stuff – current and maybe some old stuff. I hope you enjoy it.
Everyone knows that Ferrais aren’t as plentiful as Honda Accords or Toyota Camerys. Even though that’s true the folks at Ferrai think they are making too many. Last year they produced 7,318 units. They’d like to cap it at 7,000. So how do they make money? According to Motor Trend (Scott Evans) it’s branding. They sell 95 Ferrari licensed items every minute.
I’m guessing that is true..even I have a Ferrari Mug!!!!
Oh they make a couple bucks building engines for Maserati.
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Tim
For nearly 40 years, Dave’s Goldwest Auto Wrecking has been buying and selling wrecked muscle cars in Southern California. Sadly, after all these years, they are closing their doors and are selling off all their inventory and land. They have about 75 project muscle cars up for grabs that need to go. If you’re in the region, we would recommend stopping by, even if it’s just to roam the yard.
Yes, you remember the plastic strips and setting up the loop for your Hot Wheels track and watching your favorite car do a loop (or sometimes just drop on it’s top) after you released it on the track.
You’ll love this video, even if you only had a Easy Bake Oven and didn’t have a Hot Wheels track set.
Tanner Foust has made a career out of driving little cars in a tight circle – (yawn). Just kidding….the guy has some great skills…..so check out this life size Hot Wheel Double Loop.
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Tim
2016 Shelby GT350 Planned With High-Revving V8 | AutoGuide.com News.
Do we like this?
I am going to have to say…yes…I think I do!!!
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Tim
Goodguys Rodders Right at Home in New England – RodAuthority.com.
If you haven’t atttended a Goodguys event…you are missing something wonderful.
No this isn’t the finishing up the last trips notes, nope we just returned from there today 6/23.
We had stayed the weekend in Bisbee again with a couple friends and Lowell is 2 minutes away and so we wanted to show them the cool little town.
This time it was a bit earlier on a Sunday morning and the breakfast cafe was crowded and one other thing was different the Harley Repair shop was open.
We got to meet the owner Jim (real first named – last name omitted). As I alluded to in my earlier posts, Jim is a avid supporter of one of the largest motorcycle social events in the world – Sturgis, South Dakota. On this particular Sunday Jim had his shop open and was working on the brakes of his old Chevy pick up.
One of Jim’s many vehicles. He mentioned that we owns nearly all of the motor cycles and cars you see there.
Most of the cars and vehicles belong to Jim. He has a pretty large collection of cars – like a 1969 Mustang Shelby, Studebaker pickup, Hudson, 67 Corvette to name a few (Oh and this Caddy!!).
He has collected all of the Indian and Harley motorcycles you can see on display and parked along the street and I’d say they out number the cars at lest three to one.
This Indian racer has been well restored.
I didn’t get him on camera, hadn’t expected to run into to him on a Sunday morning and didn’t want to impose. As I stated, Jim was setting up to do a brake job on the Chevy pickup pictured above. As we approached we were greeted by two dogs, one named Blondie, the other dogs name I didn’t catch but both were older but cutie dogs. Jim was hauling out a Honda scooter with a for sale sign on it when we walked up followed by the two dogs. Next to the Chevy pick up was a 2004 Harley which he had just picked up from a when a family friend who’s patriarch had recently passed and the family offered the bike at a far price. The dogs belonged the same fellow and Jim adopted them (he had just lost his 12 year old dog).
Jim admits he has collected a lot of interesting pieces and let us know he has a Chrysler with an original Hemi coming in and a flat head Ford V8 engine, but needs a Ford to put it in, and a few more goodies. He laughed saying that he’s running out of friends with space to store thing. Being a fellow car lover, I offered to bring some things back to Tucson with me to help out….we both laughed….pretty sure that’s not going to happen.
Although Lowell is a legitimate Arizona city it has pretty much been left on it’s own. It has been slated to be torn down -(more on that later on). Jim explained that “they” pretty much let him and a couple others carry on business and Jim use most of the building for storing and displaying his treasures.
There is an effort to save the town of Lowell, AZ and make it a historic area. Look for more from me on that.
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Tim
